28 September 2023

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunity:

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Digital disruption and displacement." Submit article proposals by 15 October 2023.

Short pieces:

Addressing the digital learning-to-earning gap (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2023) [text]

"AI for humanitarians: A conversation on the hype, the hope, the future," The New Humanitarian, 5 Sept. 2023 [text]

Bridging the digital gender divide (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2023) [text]

Displaced and disconnected across Asia and the Pacific (UNHCR Innovation Service, Sept. 2023) [text]

How can AI contribute to the fight to end statelessness? (European Network on Statelessess, Sept. 2023) [text]

Voices from the War: What Tweets Reveal about Refugee Experience (Univ. of Würzburg, Sept. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Reports & 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]

Digital Transformation Strategy: 2022-2026 (UNHCR) [access]
- "Provides a unified vision and approach to realizing the rights of refugees to digital inclusion and protection. It also guides UNHCR in reshaping our use of digital channels and associated technology to achieve our strategic objectives."

International Migration, vol. 61, no. 5 (Oct. 2023) [contents]
- The "Commentaries" section includes five freely available contributions relating to digital technologies.

"Refugee and Mediated Lives," Entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication (Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2022) [postprint]

"The Representation of Afghan Refugees in Pakistani Urdu and English Blogs: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis," Corporum: Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 6, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Rule of Law Challenges of 'Algorithmic Discretion' & Automation in EU Border Control: A Case Study of ETIAS Through the Lens of Legality," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 25, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

"'#SayNoToRohingya': a critical study on Malaysians’ amplified resentment towards Rohingya refugees on Twitter during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis," The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, vol. 112, no 4 (2023) [open access]

Smart Border is Watching You! Fundamental rights implications of automated data processing and decision-making at the EU Border, Law Research Paper, no. 2023-11 (Univ. of Luxembourg, Sept. 2023) [text]

"Understanding the impact of digital technology on the well-being of older immigrants and refugees: A scoping review," Digital Health, 30 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"The use of digital technologies in the Hungarian refugee response," Forced Migration Review, no. 72 (Sept. 2023) [open access]

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