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Vol.63 No.1
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Questioning the South Korean Smart Border: A Critique of Surveillance Racism, Biometric Identity, and Anti-Immigration

Korea Journal / Korea Journal, (P)0023-3900; (E)2733-9343
2023, v.63 no.1, pp.180-207
https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2023.63.1.180
Minkyu SUNG (UNIST)
SUNG, M. (2023). Questioning the South Korean Smart Border: A Critique of Surveillance Racism, Biometric Identity, and Anti-Immigration. Korea Journal, 63(1), 180-207, https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2023.63.1.180
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Abstract

This paper examines the border as an assemblage of surveillance technologies that exert a contentious claim to algorithmic accuracy based on raceembedded biometric data processing. I offer the term surveillance racism—a regime of normalization in which the technical reification of race for the biometric database configures anti-migration and anti-refugee discourses for the well-being of a population or nation. I put forward the border as a biopolitical enclosure in which biometric monitoring through security and risk calculations of threat to the state generates, propagates, and maintains discourses of racism. A discussion of South Korea’s Integrated Border Management System uncovers the workings of a biopolitical enclosure that is committed to constructing a claim about the survival of the Korean nation pitted against the peculiar racial category of unhealthy immigrants from nonWestern, developing countries.

keywords
biometrics, border control, digital enclosure, surveillance racism, biopolitics, South Korea
Submission Date
2022-03-10
Revised Date
2022-06-30
Accepted Date
2022-07-01

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