Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making Available to Purchase

This chapter traces the collaborations between the American Border Patrol, defense contractors, and the US federal government in the articulation of a border regime premised on a gradually growing, persistent technocreep—of data capture and processing, and bodily apprehension, displacement, and elimination. These collaborations take place through a citizen science framework that position citizens as caring for the US nation all the while targeting migrants. The chapter sheds light on the limitations of citizen science, particularly in relation to citizenship and sovereignty, and questions its unanimous acceptance as a democratizing endeavor by examining its uncivil technopolitics in the exercise of racial violence.