Mina Mir is a doctoral student at the Department of Politics at York University. Her research focuses on law enforcement agencies (policing and intelligence) and the surveillance of Black, brown, and Indigenous folks. In particular, her research focus is on surveillant biometric technologies, especially facial recognition technology. She inquires into how technologies of visual representation ‘see’ (or don’t see) race, and how biometric technologies of identification have been used historically to perpetuate modes of social classification, sequestering, and carceral warehousing. She is from the Balochistan region of Pakistan, where her people have been fighting against historic dispossession and exploitation.

Keywords: Race, anti-Blckness, biometric technology, surveillance, social movements, securitisation, policing