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Book SynopsisThe tightening of border security in West Africa has led to the application of new technologies of surveillance and identification. Philippe M. Frowd focuses on the mix of actors involved in these efforts and shows that border security is a statebuilding practice, underpinned by international and local security officials and technologies.
Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Borderwork assemblages; 3. Security knowledge and the politics of intervention; Part II: 4. From migration crisis to cooperación; 5. Border infrastructures and statebuilding in Mauritania; 6. Biometric borderwork; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.
