28 February 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

The Hidden 30% Cost Premium of Digital Cash Transfers for Refugees (ICTWorks, Feb. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Kenya.

The platform transforming how refugee students learn (UNICEF, Jan. 2025) [access]
- Available in English, Polish and Ukrainian.

Smart borders kill: New frontiers of violence and erosion of rights at the world’s borders (Open Global Rights, Feb. 2025) [text]

Symposium: Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns (Völkerrechtsblog, Feb. 2025) [access]

Taking innovation global with two-way communications with refugees (UNHCR Innovation Service, Feb. 2025) [text]

"US immigration is creating a mirage of mass deportations on Google search," The Guardian, 6 Feb. 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Blockchain-based solution for addressing refugee management in the Global South: transparent and accessible resource sharing in humanitarian organizations," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 24 Feb. 2025 [open access]

"European Biometric Borders and (Im)Mobilities in West Africa: Reflections on Migrant Strategies for Border Circumvention and Subversion," Politics & Policy, vol. 53, no. 1 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Migrants’ and refugees’ digital literacies in life and language learning," ReCALL, FirstView, 19 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Unlocking Artificial Intelligence’s Potential in COI Research, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 44 (UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

TikTok trails: Decoding migrant smugglers' visual narratives in migration advertising, 11 Dec. 2024 [access]

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