Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Opportunity:

Workshop: Migrant Lives Online: Practicing Digital Research Methods, Online, 10 June 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

‘Digitizing Pandora’s Box’: Why Civil Liberty Experts Fear DOGE’s Immigrant Database (Documented, May 2025) [text]

Invisible Gatekeepers: DHS’ Growing Use of AI in Immigration Decisions (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"IOM’s digital tool aims to speed up migrant removals, but at what cost?," The New Humanitarian, 18 May 2025 [text]

- Focuses on Europe. See more tech-related stories from TNH here.

Migration, Mobilities and Digital Technologies – a special series published in association with the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures (Migration Mobilities Bristol, 2025) [access]

"Website for US deportation airline GlobalX defaced by hackers," Reuters, 5 May 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

"AI-Based Virtual Triage and Telemedical Health Care for Ukrainian War Refugees and Displaced Persons," JAMA Network Open, 8(5):e258839 [open access]

- Focuses on Poland.

"Automated decision making and deportation: legal concerns and regulation," Griffith Law Review, Latest Articles, 26 March 2025 [open access]

"Can Internet Search Data Predict Human Migration Intentions?," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:28 (May 2025) [open access]

"Electronic Personal Health Records for Mobile Populations: A Rapid Systematic Literature Review," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 22, no. 4 (March 2025) [open access]

"From Information-Seeking to Information-Asking: Designing RefuGPT, a Chatbot for Ukrainian Refugees in Switzerland," Digital Government: Research and Practice, Just Accepted, 15 May 2025 [open access]

"The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Border and Migration Control and the Subtle Erosion of Human Rights," International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on the EU.

Resource:

Humanitarian Info UA Chatbot: Informing affected populations on Multipurpose Cash Assistance (ETC & OCHA) [access]

- "A one-way communication tool created to provide up-to-date information on humanitarian multipurpose cash assistance to meet the individual needs of vulnerable people affected by the war in Ukraine. The Chatbot uses messaging from humanitarian partners, rather than artificial intelligence."

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- Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies (5 May 2025)