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Spy, track and archive: The temporality of visibility in Eurosur and Jora
Martina Tazzioli 
Security Dialogue, Start page: 096701061876981
Swansea University Author:
Martina Tazzioli
DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0967010618769812
Abstract
This article deals with the temporalities of visibility that underpin the functioning of two migrationmonitoring softwares devised by the European agency Frontex: Eurosur and Jora. Through an ethnography of Eurosur and Jora, the article shows that while these twosystems elaborate on data and informa...
| Published in: | Security Dialogue |
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| ISSN: | 0967-0106 1460-3640 |
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2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40724 |
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This article deals with the temporalities of visibility that underpin the functioning of two migrationmonitoring softwares devised by the European agency Frontex: Eurosur and Jora. Through an ethnography of Eurosur and Jora, the article shows that while these twosystems elaborate on data and information collected in real time, they work as archives for generating future oriented migration risk scenarios and not for intervening in real time for intercepting or saving migrants at sea. After describing how Jora and Eurosur operate, the article considers how national police officers, Frontexand the Navies use these devices, and how risk analyses are generated. The article shows that thesemonitoring mapping devices are sustained by coeval temporalities: the detection of migrants ‘on the spot’coexists with both a future-oriented temporality and an archival one. The second part of the article analysesthe impact that mapping monitoring softwares have on migrant journeys and migrant lives. In the final section, the article brings attention to the ways in which migrantsstrategically appropriate and twist thetemporality of security and the field of visibility enacted by these devices. |
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| Keywords: |
Eurosur; Jora; migration; Mediterranean; visibility; temporality |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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096701061876981 |