ABSTRACT
The widespread changes occurring in the way mobility is organised globally means that geographers researching disability are increasingly concerned with the relationship between disabled persons and technologies as well as questions of citizenship and social inclusion. This chapter focuses on the development and implementation of biometric technologies such as Iris scanning, DNA matching, facial recognition technology and fingerprint capture that are being employed to control and monitor global mobility. It argues about people with disabilities have not been given as much prominence in biometric trials, along with other minority groups such as asylum seekers. The chapter explores the new geographies that are being automatically created through the introduction and diffusion of biometric technologies such as facial recognition, fingerprinting and Iris scanning at border checkpoints. By viewing Agamben's ideas of exceptionalism through the lens of the biologised body of modernity the double tracked global dualities of inclusion and exclusion is understood, documented and theorised.
