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30 November 2022

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunity:

Seminar: Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Used for Good for Refugees Caught up in Humanitarian Crises, and in their Resolution?, 17 January 2023 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Asylum seekers share their journeys to the U.S. on TikTok to warn of migration risks (ImmigrationProf Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

Dialling into Digital Skills: Using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Technology (UNHCR Innovation Service, Nov. 2022) [text]

International Migrants Day 2022: is it feasible to deliver psychological help online to displaced Ukrainians? (On Medicine Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Why humanitarians need to talk about Elon Musk’s Twitter," The New Humanitarian, 30 Nov. 2022 [text]

York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps (News@York, Nov. 2022) [text

Reports:

"Digital Technology and Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19," Chapter in The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration and Migrants from a Gender Perspective (IOM, May 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 159.

Digitalizing the Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Crystal Emblems: Benefits, Risks, and Possible Solutions (ICRC, Nov. 2022) [text]
- See also related commentary.

Preserving Open Source Digital Evidence: A Guide for Practitioners Working on Dealing with the Past, swisspeace Essential, no. 1 (Swiss Peace Foundation, Oct. 2022) [text]

"Protecting Migrants against the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Technologies," Chapter in The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration and Migrants from a Gender Perspective (IOM, May 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 171.

Rastreo de conexiones de población refugiada y migrante venezolana en Colombia por medio de Facebook: Análisis comparativo entre el cuarto trimestre de 2020 y 2021 (R4V, Nov. 2022) [text]

Trends in the Digitalisation of EU Borders: How Experimentations with AI for Border Control Treat Migrants as Test Subjects (PRIO, Nov. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

Communication Culture and Critique, vol. 15, no. 2 (2022) [contents]
- Special issue on "Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday." The editorial, two articles, and three Forum pieces are open access.

"Migrant Inventors as Agents of Technological Change," Journal of Technology Transfer, Latest Articles, 13 May 2022 [open access]

"Ontology-Based Personalized Job Recommendation Framework for Migrants and Refugees," Big Data and Cognitive Computing, vol. 6, no. 4 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"Precarious Migrants in a Sharing Economy: Digital Solidarity and Ethical Tech for Refugees: Why We Need to Care More and Code Less," International Journal of Communication, vol. 16 (2022) [open access]

"Rohingya diaspora online: Mapping the spaces of visibility, resistance and transnational identity on social media," New Media & Society, OnlineFirst, 5 Nov. 2022 [postprint]

"There’s an App for That: Context, Assumptions, Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls in the Use of Digital Technologies to Address Refugee Mental Health," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 2 (2021) [postprint via Univ. of Brighton IR] [postprint via Univ. of Sussex IR]
- Note: The embargo imposed on access to this text ended on 19 Nov. 2022.

"What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Refugee Status Determination? A Proposal for Removing Subjective Fear," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 22 Nov. 2022 [open access]

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