ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how migrants and travellers are increasingly framed as posing a risk to the Netherlands. Then it shows how the quest for 'accurate identity' and technologies used to approach this goal transform in specific ways and risks for those subjected to them. The chapter has focused on three systems for identifying and verifying those posing a risk: the Advanced Passenger Information system for profiling travelers and the biometrics based identity verification systems within the alien and law enforcement chains, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) console. It also demonstrates how Risk occurs in the field and it provides further examples of how problems of identity fraud, illegal entry, or related crimes by immigrants become translated into other issues within the configurations of the INS and Advanced Passenger Information System (API) system. Finally it examines the arguments together and concludes that the technological quest for 'accurate identification' and risk prevention introduces a range of new risks for migrants.
