22 April 2021

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunities:

Migration Research Gyms (Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Ryerson Univ.)
- Analyzing qualitative interviews: Coding, identifying themes and reporting your findings, 7 May 2021 [info]
- Social media as data in migration research, 14 May 2021 [info]
- Researchers’ public engagement and social media use (and abuse): An online workshop on how to disseminate research findings through social media, 21 May 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Could artificial intelligence improve decision-making in refugee cases? (openDemocracy, April 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

How cloud technology is helping migrants stay safe during the pandemic (World Economic Forum Blog, April 2021) [text]

A humanitarian duty to integrity (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, April 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the digitization of cash transfers.

"Moria 2.0: The EU’s sandbox for surveillance technologies," Euractiv, 31 March 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Asylum-Related Migrants’ Social-Media Use, Mobility Decisions, and Resilience," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 19, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Between surveillance and recognition: Rethinking digital identity in aid," Big Data & Society, vol. 8, no. 1 (April 2021) [open access]

Digital Refugee Livelihoods and Decent Work: Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy (ILO, April 2021) [text]

From digital promise to frontline practice: new and emerging technologies in humanitarian action (OCHA, April 2021) [text]

Syrian Refugees, Public Attitudes, Policy Areas and Political Parties in Turkey: A Systematic Analysis of Twitter Data, Working Paper, no. 1469 (Economic Research Forum, April 2021) [text]

"Topic modelling on archive documents from the 1970s: global policies on refugees," Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Advance Articles, 30 March 2021 [open access]

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