The paper is part of the BD&S special theme "The technopolitics of interoperability in security, migration, and border control“, edited by Rocco Bellanova, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, and Silvan Pollozek.
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How has this new data infrastructure of border control emerged as a point of contestation? How are claims and issues around interoperability articulated? How limited is the space for technopolitical intervention in the border regime?
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The EU's interoperability initiative aims to reshape borders by linking personal and biometric data across migration/border/security databases—posing threats to privacy, human rights, and civil liberties. In this article, I explore the possibilities and limits of contesting this initiative. (2/4)

we want to explore interoperability in the border regime as an example of how the digitization of borders and migration is driven by multiple—but also conflicting—rationales and ordering attempts.