05 February 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

The Connectivity for Refugees initiative, one year in (UNHCR Innovation Service, Jan. 2025) [text]

How leveraging AI and collaboration can strengthen supply chains for humanitarian aid (World Economic Forum, Jan. 2025) [text]

ICE, Spyware, and the Constitution: A Call for Reform in Immigration Enforcement (Immigration and Human Rights Law Review Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related NYT article.

Social Media and its Impact in Amplifying Refugee Voices and Stories (Wilson Center, Dec. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Combining Photovoice and Videovoice for Participatory Research: Visual Storytelling with LGBTQ+ Refugees and Migrants," Journal of Participatory Research Methods, vol. 5, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Brazil.

"Crowdsourcing Platforms for Ukrainian Refugees: Meaning Making in Infrastructures of Problem-Solving," Signs and Society, vol. 12, no. 3 (Fall 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Ukrainians in Romania.

Digital ecosystems and migration responses to climate extremes: case study from Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab in Pakistan (CGIAR, Dec. 2024) [text]

"From Crisis to Cure: the Afghan Refugee Dilemma, Security, and Technological Interventions," Asiascape: Digital Asia, vol. 11, no. 3 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"'Is everyone alive?': Smartphone use by Ukrainian refugee children," New Media & Society, vol. 27, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [ResearchGate]

"Predicting PTSD with Machine Learning: forecasting refugees’ trauma and tailored intervention," European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, vol. 9, no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Portugal.

"A Systematic Review of the Digital Divide Experienced by Migrant Women," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 4 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"UNHCR and Biometrics: Refugees’ Rights in a Legal No-Man’s Land?," Chapter in Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders (Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025) [open access]

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