Research summary
The term transnational mobility refers to the movement of people across borders. Dr. Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Canada Research Chair in the Security Governance of Bodies, Mobility and Borders, is analyzing the political, theoretical and empirical implications of the security management of transnational mobility with a focus on sexualized, gendered, racialized and “datafied” populations.
While analyzing how migrating individuals are apprehended at the border in the name of security governance, D’Aoust and her research team hope to better understand the myriad meanings assigned to this group when they are identified, whether by persons or computer systems. They intend to document the differentiated impacts that the securing of transnational mobility signify on a population moving across a border. They are studying the role of law as infrastructure that governs trans-border control over populations on the move. Their work will help produce new interdisciplinary, empirical, theoretical and normative knowledge of the transformations of security, governance of mobility and sexual/identity inequalities—areas that are central to global politics and whose study is too often compartmentalized.