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The ‘smart’ metamorphosis of borders and their ambivalent scope in the European migration control

A line in the sand

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  • Encarnación La Spina University of Deusto

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2418

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smart borders, migrants, migratory control, European Union, stereotyped categories

Abstract

The process of digital transformation of Europe's external borders and especially the inference capacity of AI systems, has changed the way migration flows into the European Union are anticipated, controlled and curbed. Not only through the widespread use of predictive tools, remote biometric identification and categorisation systems, but also through the increasing experimental implementation of different algorithmic software. While the myriad of technological applications and advanced AI systems respond to the ‘objective’ need or justification for an efficient and sustainable response to border management of immigration and asylum. This supposedly innocuous ‘intelligent’ transformation of borders (smart borders) contributes, from a securitarian point of view, activating the unlimited reproduction of stereotypes about (un)desired migrations.

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21-01-2026

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La Spina, E. (2026) “The ‘smart’ metamorphosis of borders and their ambivalent scope in the European migration control: A line in the sand”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl.2418.

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