Romm Lewkowicz

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

This article looks at how the biometric surveillance of migrants in the European Union interweaves border-passing with the embodied capacity to pass as, or against, one's bureaucratic image. Despite biometrics' promise to eliminate photographic mediation, photo IDs are embedded in biom-etric regulation, which further entangles bodies and photograph...

The dissertation is a critical ethnography of the biometric governance of asylum seekers and illegal migrants in the European Union, an integral apparatus for the policing of border-free Europe. Interrogating the paradox of how ‘undocumented migrants’ have been—and are—the most documented subjects in Europe today, the research explores how this doc...

(English version below) Was sagen Dinge über menschliche Existenz? Welche Funktionen haben sie im Rahmen von Flucht und Migration? Welche Versprechen tragen Dinge in sich, welche Emotionen, welche Aspirationen? Was hat materieller Besitz mit Menschenwürde zu tun und was bedeutet sein Verlust für das Selbstbewusstsein und die persönliche Identi...

On their route to secure asylum in the EU, asylum seekers rely on various strategies involving both licit and illicit paper practices. Based on ethnographic research with asylum seekers on the move between Turkey, Greece, and Germany, this article takes the realm of legal documents to probe the economy of legality and illegality that sustains the E...

Prezentacja projektu "All White People Still Look The Same To Me" Ariela Efraima Ashbela i Romma Lewkowicza.

Presentation of Ariel Efraim Ashbel's and Romm Lewkowicz's project "All White People Still Look The Same To Me".