17 January 2024

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

EU’s AI Act Falls Short on Protecting Rights at Borders (Just Security Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

How can AI be used to improve predictions of humanitarian need? (Development Initiatives Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Innovating to advance digital employment pathways (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec, 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Tunisia.

Mobile phones for participation: building responsible public-private humanitarian partnerships (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees," Political Psychology, Early View, 25 Dec. 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on Europe.

"Bad adopters or bad proponents of technology? Facebook and the violence against Muslims in Myanmar," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 8 Dec. 2023 [open access]

"Designing for Social Justice: A Decolonial Exploration of How to Develop EdTech for Refugees," Education Sciences, vol. 14, no. 1 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Digital Communication Practices around the Experience of Resettlement from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Germany," Sozialpolitik.ch, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 2 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

"The rapid diffusion of fake news: An analysis of content on migration, refugees, and conflict on international fact-checking platforms," Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences, 65 (2023) [open access]

"The Regulation of AI-based Migration Technologies under the Draft EU AI Act: (Still) Operating in the Shadows?," European Law Journal (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Voice notes in the car: capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees," Area, Early View, 2 Jan. 2024 [open access]

What Role Could Digital Technologies Play in the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum? (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2023) [text]

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