This chapter expands debates about Southernising criminology to include a focus on the digital technologies of border control. In the context of increasing digitalisation, critical analysis of global mobility control requires explicit theorisation of the role of non-human technologies in shaping border control practices. Such theorisation can also imbue border criminology scholarship with a radical democratic openness to Southern world views by destabilising traditional Northern forms of knowledge production about borders and migration. To this end, I synthesise insights from the notion of performativity and the philosophical tradition of pragmatism to propose a framework for analysing the deployment of novel border control technologies in the Global South. This framework challenges state-centric and Northern-centric perspectives on crimmigration control by foregrounding Southern agency and explicitly challenging solutionist framings of border control technologies that represent these tools as neutral technical components within a broader global system of state-based ‘migration management’.