EU makes a step towards requiring biometrics on national ID cards

Tag: News from Europe The European adoption of biometrics on national ID cards is making steps ahead, if news about an informal agreement about the Proposal on strengthening the security of ID cards between the EU Council Presidency and European Parliament are to be taken seriously. The Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament…

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Processing Citizenship at the World Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies in Vienna: Panel on the Datafication of Border and Migration Management

Post-doctoral Researcher Dr. Stephan Scheel has organized a panel at the upcoming 2ndWorld Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies. The conference will take place at the University of Vienna and the Central European University in Budapest from 10thto 14thof July 2018. The contributions to the panel all concern the ongoing technologisation and datafication of…

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Processing Citizenship at the University of Oxford for the workshop “Deconstructing Biometric Refugee Registration”

PhD Candidate  Wouter Van Rossem, will represent the Processing Citizenship project at a workshop organized by the University of Oxford called “Deconstructing Biometric Regugee Registration” this Friday, 15 June 2018. The workshop is hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre. Among the speakers: Shane O’Brien, Registration Officer (Identity Management), UNHCR Dr Anja Simonsen, Biometrics Border Worlds…

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Processing Citizenship at the LSE research workshop on ICT and the management of refugee flows and services

On 7 June 2018 Processing Citizenship Principal Investigator Annalisa Pelizza will be attending the research workshop on “ICT and the management of refugee flows and services”, organized by Prof. Chrisanthi Avgerou at the London School of Economics. Annalisa will take the stage at 12.00 with a talk on “Processing Alterity, Shaping the European Order”. The initiative…

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Principal Investigator Annalisa Pelizza interviewed by Scienza in Rete

“Fostering two-ways mobility and recognizing that scientific research is facing deep transformations throughout Europe and the Western world. Researchers should avoid invoking an Italian state of exception, and contextualize their issues at least in the broader European framework”. These  priorities have characterized the presentation by Processing Citizenship’s PI Annalisa Pelizza at the “Scientific Research: a…

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