ABSTRACT This essay brings together scholarship in biometrics and disability studies with conversations in transnational rhetorical studies to build a theoretical framework that examines the (re)emergence and (re)circulation of biometric screening technologies and attends to the role of technologies in theorizing an ethics of encounter. I argue specifically that tracing biometrics—discursive, material, and technological practices—reveals how such discourses and their promises materialize on bodies of refugees and shape their encounters as “others and other-others.” Using this framework, I analyze rhetorically cultural artifacts that circulated following the 2015 and 2016 terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States to demonstrate how biometric screening discourses of progress have participated in immobilizing refugees physically and exacerbating conditions of biopolitical control and debilitation.

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难民遭遇的修辞学说：生物特征筛选技术和流动性的失败承诺

摘要 本文将生物识别学和残疾研究的学术与跨国修辞研究中的对话结合起来，构建了一个理论框架，研究了生物识别筛选技术的（重新）出现和（重新）流通，并关注技术在理论化伦理学中的作用。遇到。我特别指出，追踪生物识别技术——话语、材料和技术实践——揭示了这些话语及其承诺如何在难民身上实现，并将他们的遭遇塑造成“他者和他者”。使用这个框架，