Global Surveillance and Policing

Elia Zureik is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada. His research interests encompass race and ethnic relations, political sociology, sociology of the Middle East, and new technology and work.Mark B. Salter is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottowa, Canada.

• 1. Global surveillance and policing: borders, security, identity - Introduction 2. Some conceptual issues in the study of borders and surveillance 3. At the threshold of security: a theory of international borders 4. Borders, migration and economic integration: towards a new political economy of borders 5. The border is everywhere: ID cards, surveillance and the other 6. Borders, bodies and biometrics: towards identity management 7. Expanding surveillance: connecting biometric information systems to international police cooperation 8. What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post-9/11 9. Potential threats and potential criminals: data collection in the national security entry-exit registration system 10. Imperial embrace? Identification and constraints on mobility in a hegemonic empire 11. Fencing the line: analysis of the recent rise in security measures along disputed and undisputed boundaries 12. 'Getting ahead of the game': border technologies and the changing space of governance 13. Immigration controls and citizenship in the political rhetoric of New Labour 14. Freedom of movement inside 'fortress Europe'

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