Bio-Technology and the Border: A talk by Dr. Simone Browne

The Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition sponsors this talk by Dr. Simone Browne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas. Dr. Browne's book project, Skin™: Surveillance, Technology and Race, questions how the historical remains of early surveillance technologies form part of the enabling conditions of certain new technologies, including biometrics. Professor Browne is currently working on a co-edited collection with Dr. Shoshana Magnet titled Feminist Surveillance Studies, and is co-editing with Dr. Ben Carrington a special issue of Qualitative Sociology on 'Obama and the New Politics of Race'.