Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Blog posts & press:

Comparing the discourse on refugees and migrants in Europe across traditional and social media (Protect Project Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Safeguarding humanitarian organizations from digital threats (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Undoing the Migration Digital Black Box (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Europe.

When the Subaltern Speaks Online: Stateless Advocacy through the Post-Pandemic Digital Space (CSS Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Bias, Consistency, and Partisanship in U.S. Asylum Cases: A Machine Learning Analysis of Extraneous Factors in Immigration Court Decisions, Paper presented at the 2nd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, Arlington, VA, 6-9 Oct. 2022 [text]

“Digitalization among Refugees in Malaysia,” Proceedings, vol. 82, no. 1 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

The Humanitarian Sector & Digital Identity: Are We Affecting Refugees’ Self-Identities? (Digital Humanitarian Network, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Market Assessment of Digital Employment Opportunities for Refugee Youth (Samuel Hall et al., Aug. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya.

On Call: Using Mobile Phones to Provide Learning in Emergencies (UNICEF, 2022) [text]

On Call: Using Mobile Technologies to Measure Learning in Emergencies (UNICEF, 2022) [text]

Rebooting the Asylum System? The Role of Digital Tools in International Protection (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Europe. See also related press release.

The Social Atrocity: Meta and the Right to Remedy for the Rohingya (Amnesty International, Sept. 2022) [text]

"WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil," Media and Communication, vol. 10, no. 3 (2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (29 Sept. 2022)