Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Collaboration gone right – UNHCR and WFP take data sharing to the next level in Tanzania refugee camps (UNHCR Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

From Registration to Resettlement: How the Digital Gateway is empowering refugees in Indonesia (UNHCR, Sept. 2024) [text]

The future is data (and it’s here already) (UNHCR Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Locked In, Locked Out: How Data Breaches Shatter Refugees’ Safety (TIMEP, Aug. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Reports & journal articles:

Emerging practices to improve access to and working conditions on digital labour platforms for refugees and host communities (UNHCR, ILO & UNDP, Aug. 2024) [text]

First Monday, vol. 29, no. 8 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Migration narratives on social media: Digital racism and subversive migrant subjectivities."

"From the Syrian to Ukrainian refugee crisis: Tracing the changes in the Italian Twitter discussions through network analysis," Communications, Ahead of Print, 13 Aug. 2024 [preprint]

"Health effects and user perceptions of the US Customs and Border Patrol One™ mobile application: A qualitative analysis among asylum seekers at the Mexico-US border," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 10 (2024) [open access]

"Minimal computing in refugee education in Uganda: economies of digital use and non-use, and the right constraints," Learning, Media and Technology, Latest Articles, 17 Sept. 2024 [open access]

"Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)," Nonprofit Policy Forum, Ahead of Print, 30 Aug. 2024 [open access]

Project Hecuba: A Study of Gender Imbalance in Refugee Digital Inclusion Programmes (GoodFX, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Kenya.

"The Protection of Migrants' Personal Data," Chapter in International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge (Routledge, Aug. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"Search for a New Home: Refugee Stock and Google Search," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 10 Sept. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

"Understanding anti-immigration sentiment spreading on Twitter," PLoS ONE 19(9): e0307917 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

- Focuses on the UK.

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