TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gourarier,Mélanie
TI  - Making the Border behind Laboratory Walls
PY  - 2017///.
							
N1  - 98
N2  - Immigration procedures for family reunification in the United States now necessitate the DNA testing of claimants from certain countries in order to establish filiation. Although these tests are not a legal obligation, the immigration service nonetheless regularly requires them for claimants from countries where birth certificates are suspected of being fraudulent. State and personal truths are thus countered by a truth that is al legedly absolute for its neutrality, where biology is turned into an auditing technique. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a DNA testing center in Brooklyn (New York), this article questions the “geneticization” of immigration’s auditing techniques and its consequences on family and national histories
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-geneses-2017-3-page-48?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -