07 June 2022

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

"The AI Act: EU’s chance to regulate harmful border technologies," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 17 May 2022 [text]

Governments’ Information Campaigns for Potential Migrants: What’s the Point? (MPC Blog, May 2022) [text]

Implementing Objective 1 GCM in Africa: to what extent are migrants’ personal data protected? (RLI Blog, May 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*"Harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence for humanitarian action: Opportunities and risks," International Review of the Red Cross, FirstView, 25 April 2022 [open access]

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 48, no. 8 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Precarious Migrants, Migration Regimes and Digital Technologies: The Empowerment-Control Nexus." The introduction is freely available.

"The new geography of asylum: digital identity, artificial intelligence and blockchain," AIMS Geosciences, vol. 8, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

"Problematic Content in Spanish Language Comments in YouTube Videos about Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants," Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, vol. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Refugees re-making community: on the performativity of participatory video," GeoJournal, Latest Articles, 9 May 2022 [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response, HPG Working Paper (ODI, May 2022) [access]
- Two related case studies are also available: "Social media and inclusion in humanitarian response: ‘Caminantes’ at the Venezuela–Colombia border" (in English and Spanish) and "Social media and inclusion in humanitarian action: the case of refugees in Uganda."

The use of social media platforms by migrant and ethnic minority populations during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review (MedRxiv, Feb. 2022) [preprint]

"Virtually Incredible: Rethinking Deference to Demeanor When Assessing Credibility in Asylum Cases Conducted by Video Teleconference," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36, no. 2 (Winter 2022) [full-text]

Multimedia:

The dangers of border technology for refugees (Fixing Aid Podcast, May 2022) [access]

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