13 February 2023

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunities:

Seminar series: Forced Migration and Digital Technologies: (Dis)continuities in Actors and Power Relations, Oxford, 24 January-2 March 2023 [info]
- Note: The remaining seminars in this series have been cancelled due to planned strike action across UK higher education.

CFP: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Women’s Health and Digitalisation in Forced Migration." Submit abstracts by 15 March 2023.

Blog posts & press:

AI in migration is fuelling global inequality: How can we bridge the gap? (World Economic Forum Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

‘Back to basics’ with a digital twist: humanitarian principles and dilemmas in the digital age (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

Connecting a displaced community in Colombia: Digital inclusion in action (UNHCR Innovation Service, Jan. 2023) [text]

"EU Negotiations on AI Systems Must #ProtectNotSurveil People on the Move," Scoop, 10 Feb. 2023 [text]

"Humanitarian technology: improving the lives of refugees and migrants," Technology Record, 9 Feb. 2023 [text]

"Online System to Seek Asylum in US Quickly Overwhelmed," VOA News, 28 Jan. 2023 [text]
- See also related ImmigrationProf blog post.

"Refugees and technology: A path to empowerment," Daily Monitor, 25 Jan. 2023 [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Social media and the protection of refugees (University of Stuttgart, Feb. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: A Review of Emerging Literature, Working Paper, no. 11 (Toronto Metropolitan Univ., Oct. 2022) [text]

Automating Immigration and Asylum: The Uses of New Technologies in Migration and Asylum Governance in Europe (Refugee Studies Centre, Jan. 2023) [access]

"Children Immunization App (CIMA): A Non-randomized Controlled Trial Among Syrian Refugees in Zaatari Camp, Jordan," Journal of Prevention, Latest Articles, 17 Jan. 2023 [open access]

Creating digital toolkits tailored to regional contexts to promote the mobilization and engagement of communities affected by forced displacement (UNHCR, Feb. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Africa.

General Policy on Data Protection and Privacy (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y el tráfico ilícito de migrantes en América Central, México y la República Dominicana (IOM, Feb. 2023) [access]
- See also related news release.

Unlocking Learning: The use of digital learning to support the education and inclusion of refugees and migrant children in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNICEF, Feb. 2023) [text]

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