17 July 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"Calibrating AI/d talk: framing perceptions, reframing policy, and deframing knowledge," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:11 (July 2025) [open access]

"Digital Inequality and Resilience in Humanitarian Refugee Organizations," International Journal of Communication, vol. 19 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres," Critical Criminology, vol. 33, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- "While the migration studies literature often focuses on state use of digital technology for border surveillance, its role in facilitating unauthorized crossings is emerging. Through digital ethnography on Arabic- and Persian-speaking virtual platforms where people discuss European border crossings, this paper challenges conventional perspectives on smugglers and solidarity within these networks."

"Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 July 2025 [open access]
- Introductory article to a forthcoming special issue. The seven articles that are included are all open access and available online: "Aspirational place-making and digital practices of refugees in the Netherlands"; "Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies"; "Digital internal bordering: surveillance, data-sharing, and the fate of sanctuary cities"; "Encountering the digital border: smartphone screening in the Dutch asylum procedure"; "Keeping people out of camps: biometric technologies, contested sovereignty, and border practices within humanitarian spaces"; "'Online business does not demand who you are': the case of Congolese refugee YouTubers in Nairobi"; and "Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit." 

"Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Digital Health Literacy in Forced Migrant Populations: Mixed Methods Systematic Review," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27:e69880 (June 2025) [open access]

"Migrant Data Extractivism: Tech and Borders at the Limit of Rights," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Rethinking Mass Influx and Derogation in the Age of AI: The Role of New Technologies in Redefining Crisis, Protection and State Obligations," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 14 July 2025 [open access]

"Technologies of life-making in the British refugee camps of the Southern Levant," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 15 July 2025 [open access]

"'Which Data Am I?': The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the French-Italian border.

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