Research: Algorithmic bodies and biopower at the border: Artificial Intelligence, Foucaultian depersonalization, and migration governance
The research aims to investigate the growing use of Artificial Intelligence, biometric systems and algorithmic mechanisms in border control procedures for migrants, to verify whether these tools produce forms of depersonalisation attributable to Foucaultian thinking.
Through the analysis of tools such as EURODAC, iBorderCtrl and other surveillance technologies, the project aims to examine whether and how migrants are progressively translated into numerical entities, risk profiles and standardised identities, becoming the object of biopower and algorithmic governmentality practices. In this context, Foucaultian thought offers an essential theoretical lens for understanding how devices of power operate through the classification, normalisation and technical management of bodies.
The aim of the research is to highlight how these technologies can redefine the boundaries of inclusion, influence rights and subjectivity, and contribute to the configuration of new forms of citizenship in the digital age.