03 September 2023

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

How cash assistance via mobile wallet transformed a refugee’s business in Jordan (UNHCR, April 2023) [text]

Keeping UNHCR’s Biometrics System up to date (UNHCR Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

Ungovernable or humanitarian experimentation? Generative AI as an accountability issue (GP Opinion Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

Reports: 

#Asylum: How Syrian Refugees Engage with Online Information, IPL Working Paper (Immigration Policy Lab, June 2023) [text]
- See also related InfoMigrants story.

Digitally powered ‘learning to earning’ for displaced young people and adolescent girls and young women (ODI, July 2023) [text]

Displaced and Disconnected (UNHCR Innovation Service) [info]
- Asia and the Pacific - Philippines (July 2023) [text]
- East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region (Aug. 2023) [text]
- Middle East and North Africa Region - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon (Aug. 2023) [text]
- Earlier reports published via this research initiative can be accessed here.

Journal articles:

"Attitudes Towards Afghan Refugees and Immigrants in Turkey: A Twitter Analysis," Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, vol. 5 (2023) [open access]

"Humanitarian ignorance: Towards a new paradigm of non-knowledge in digital humanitarianism," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 17 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"Misinformation and Its Impact on Contested Policy Issues: The Example of Migration Discourses," Societies, vol. 13, no. 7 (July 2023) [open access]

"U.S. Asylum Law and the Digital Information Environment," Houston Journal of International Law, vol. 46 (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Multimedia:

Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management, 29 March 2023 [access]

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