The Public Procurement of a Biometric Love Story

Christian Rossipal introduces a 2017 Swedish Information Video for Asylum Seekers.  In the wake of the “European Refugee Crisis” in 2015, when more than 240,000 people entered Sweden to seek asylum, a controversial age assessment technique was introduced in the country. Since many of the asylum seekers claimed to be under the age of 18 – and thus eligible for certain child privileges protected by law – the increasingly restrictive Swedish government gave The National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV) the mandate to create a new process for age assessment. As a result, RMV introduced MRI scanning of knee joints