期刊名称：Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada
印刷版ISSN：1708-6892
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
出版社：Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada
摘要：The attacks of 11 September 2001 on Washington and New York continue to influence how governments manage im/migration, citizenship, and national security. One of the more contentious national security responses to the events of 9/11 in Canada has been the drive to introduce a biometric national identification card. In this paper, we argue that the drive for a Canadian national ID card is bound up in ideological processes which threaten to exacerbate, rather than to alleviate, state insecurities pertaining to risk, citizenship, and border (in) security. We maintain that ‘proof of status’ surveillance technologies, such as biometrically-encoded ID cards, lead to the ‘securitization’ of citizenship, and we conclude that ID cards threaten to destabilize the modern spatializations of sovereignty that they are purported to uphold under the guise of national security.
