Thinking Allowed
Thinking Allowed
BBC Radio 4
Airport security, Retiring to Spain
28 minutes Posted Jul 27, 2016 at 9:07 am.
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Airport security: what are the costs of a surveillance regime which turns us all into potential suspects? Laurie Taylor talks to Rachel Hall, Associate Professor in Communications at Syracuse University, New York, about her study into the 'transparent traveller' who must submit their bags and bodies to technologies aimed at countering terrorism. Also, Anya Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of retiring to Spain in her research into the lives and times of working class British women who've made this choice.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.