Managing Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State

School for Advanced Research Scholar Colloquium:

Managing Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State: An Ethnography of CBP One™ Across the Extended Mexico-US Borderlands

Lupe Alberto Flores
SAR 2024–25 Mellon Fellow, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Assistant Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (Starting in 2025)

Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, Flores traces the digitalized border, focusing on the CBP One app and its resulting sociotechnical relations away from the territorial boundary, documenting its impact on migrant shelters’ humanitarian work, people’s im/mobility strategies, and possibilities for solidarity and digital resistance.

Register to attend the event in person at SAR (free), or watch online at youtube.com/@sarsantafemultimedia.