31 August 2024

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Apps, 911 services and mobile phones don’t offset deadly consequences of more restrictive border policies (The Conversation, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Kakuma and Kalobeyei: Drone Imagery and Machine Learning for Better Planning of Refugee Settlements (USA for UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

No CBP One = No Asylum? (The Asylumist Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

New open access book:

Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks
(McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, March 2024) [open access]
- "[This book] draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogotá, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees’ interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city’s technological landscape."

Reports & journal articles:

"Artificial Intelligence, Datafication and Exploring the Minimum Content of Nationality," Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"#Asylum: How Syrian Refugees Engage with Online Information," vol. 4 (2024) [open access]

"Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 13 Aug. 2024 [open access]

External Guidance Note for UNHCR Funded Partners on the Minimum Information Security Baseline (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

"Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power," Cultural Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 3 (2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

"Using Twitter to investigate discourse on immigration: the role of values in expressing polarized attitudes toward asylum seekers during the closure of Roxham Road," Frontiers in Social Psychology, 25 June 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Canada. See also related post on The Conversation.

Resources:

Ask ReliefWeb [access]
- A new tool that is "powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), designed to enhance the user experience on ReliefWeb by allowing users to ask questions about individual reports through a chatbot-like interface. The chatbot responds with content exclusively from the report in question, ensuring the consistency of the information provided."

Refugee-assist.com [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]
- A "chatbot [that] is designed to provide general answers to questions that refugee/asylees/TPS/parolees and others may have, and in a variety of languages." Focuses on the US.

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