Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants

by Melissa Villa-Nicholas

Book Overview

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows how surreptitious monitoring of Latinx immigrants is the focus of and driving force behind Silicon Valley's growing industry within defense technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520386078
• ISBN13: 9780520386075
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 6.0"