Abstract
Border security, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are undoubtedly one of the key issues in a colourful Australian political landscape in the past decade (see McCulloch and Pickering, Borders and Crime: Pre-crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization, Macmillan, New York, 2012; Weber and Pickering, Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier, Macmillan, London, 2011). Elections are won or lost based on political parties’ perceived (in)ability to secure Australian borders, especially from asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat (Manne, The Comment: Asylum seekers, 2010). Elsewhere across the Western world, border policing and regulating mobile bodies are also a priority, creating modern ‘factories of exclusion’ (Engbersen 2001) based on hi-tech mechanisms of social segregation, especially surveillance (see Broeders 2007; Koslowski 2004). With a budget over £ 320 million set for drone development (Waterfield, EU ‘spent £ 320 million on surveillance drone development’, 2014), we are witnessing ‘an emerging EU drone policy’ (Hayes et al., EURODRONES Inc, 2014;) that gradually spills across the border, to the neighbouring countries of Global South.
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