The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made headlines for its use of mass surveillance technologies against UAE residents, as well as opponents externally. Under the guise of protecting national security, there has been a proliferation of state-led initiatives to monitor public spaces and online activity across the UAE, making the country an important laboratory for advanced surveillance tools. This article takes as a starting point that despite claims to being race-neutral and scientific, surveillance technologies have an embedded racial bias and operate according to context to (re)produce forms of state control and racial social relations. Reviewing the introduction of multiple surveillance technologies, this article traces the rationales used to racially order space and define deviance in the UAE context, emphasising questions of race, migration status and labour, to understand how the state defines, codifies, and regulates an ethno-racial hierarchy.

阿拉伯联合酋长国 (UAE) 因其对阿联酋居民以及外部反对者使用大规模监视技术而成为头条新闻。在保护国家安全的幌子下，国家主导的监控阿联酋公共空间和在线活动的举措激增，使该国成为先进监控工具的重要实验室。本文的出发点是，尽管声称是种族中立和科学的，但监视技术具有内在的种族偏见，并根据背景进行操作以（重新）产生国家控制和种族社会关系的形式。本文回顾了多种监控技术的引入，追溯了在阿联酋背景下用于种族秩序空间和定义越轨行为的基本原理，强调种族问题，