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21 March 2024

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces: 

"The clock is ticking to build guardrails into humanitarian AI," The New Humanitarian, 11 March 2024 [text]

The UK government is using private tech companies to deliver public funds to asylum seekers (The Conversation, March 2024) [text]

Reports & book chapters:  

"Investigations with Digital Open-Source Information and the Stabilization of International Norms: Protecting the Principle of Non-Refoulement," Chapter in International Law and Technological Change: Testing the Adaptability of International Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

Leaving No One Behind: Inclusive Fintech for Remittances (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2024) [text]

Mapping Humanitarian Tech: exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes (Access Now, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related interview.

MOBILE Working Paper Series (Univ. of Copenhagen) [access]
- A number of papers look at the intersection between technologies and asylum law, particularly in the area of RSD.

"Ukrainian Refugees in Poland: Two Schools Under One Roof—One Is Offline, the Other One Online," Chapter in Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments: A Global Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2024) [open access]

Journal articles:

"Addressing Algorithmic Errors in Data-Driven Border Control Procedures," German Law Journal, First View, 13 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Designing Effective Mobile Phone Surveys: Insights from Mozambique on Optimizing Call Attempts and Evaluating Response, Refusal, and Contact Rates among Refugees and Asylum Seekers," Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, 22 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Feb. 2024 [ResearchGate]
- Note: NICT = new information & communication technologies

"Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 19 March 2024 [free full-text]

"Processing payments, enacting alterity: financial technology in the everyday lives of asylum seekers," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 1 March 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations," Global Policy, Early View, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]

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