Suspect technologies: forensic testing of asylum seekers at the UK border

Richard Tutton; Christine Hauskeller; Steven Sturdy

doi:10.1080/01419870.2013.870667

Suspect technologies: forensic testing of asylum seekers at the UK border

Richard Tutton, Christine Hauskeller, Steven Sturdy

School of Social and Political Science

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The entanglement of border control technologies and immigration policies and
practices with discourses of race, national identity and belonging has long been a focus of scholarly interest. In this paper we discuss the Human Provenance Pilot Project (HPPP), the aim of which was to evaluate the utility of genetic and isotope testing to corroborate asylum seekers’ accounts of their nationality. We subject the HPPP to a detailed socio-technical analysis, highlighting how technologies, practices and modes of thought travelled from the policing context to the asylum context, illuminating the unspoken prejudices that made that transfer possible, and reflecting on implications of the HPPP for academic research, policy advice and the asylum system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	738-752
Number of pages	15
Journal	Ethnic and Racial Studies
Volume	37
Issue number	5
Early online date	18 Mar 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.870667
Publication status	Published - 2014

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border control
isotope testing
genetics
science
asylum
forensics

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Ethnic and Racial Studies on 18/03/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2013.870667. © Tutton, R., Hauskeller, C., & Sturdy, S. (2014). Suspect technologies: forensic testing of asylum seekers at the UK border. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(5), 738-752.
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