10 October 2025

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

"Apple pulls US immigration official tracking apps," BBC News, 3 Oct. 2025 [text]

Connected migrants: how digital technology is becoming a priority (Polytechnique Insights, Oct. 2025) [text]

Humanitarian Technology: The promises and risks of new technology in disaster response (The New Humanitarian) [access]
- Curated collection on how "the humanitarian aid system is adapting to the ongoing revolution in communications and computing."

Reports:

Checklist: AI Onboarding for Humanitarian Actors (CDAC Network, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Detained at the Border: Electronic Device Searches, Biometrics, and Policy Continuity (2001–2025) (SSRN, Sept. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"The camera is on: Sudanese migration and digital communities," Routed Magazine (July 2025) [text]

Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol.16, nos.1-2 (April 2025) [contents]
- Special issue on "In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands." The editorial is freely available.

"Digital Technologies and Refugees’ Social Inclusion: The Use of ICTs by NGOs," Social Inclusion, Ahead of print, 6 Oct. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on NGOs in Türkiye and the Netherlands.

"The role of forensic imaging in the allegations of torture in asylum seekers," International Journal of Legal Medicine, Latest Articles, 18 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"'That Machine Does Not Want Us': CBP One™ and Migrant Im/mobility in the Extended Mexico-US Borderlands," Migration and Society, vol. 8, no. 1 (June 2025) [open access]

"Using Generative AI to Investigate the Multimodal Representation of Refugees
and Migrants," Discourse & Society (Forthcoming) [postprint]

"When data doubles narrate asylum: the agency of government officials and asylum applicants in datafied asylum procedures," Public Management Review, Latest Articles, 17 Sept. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on the Netherlands.

Multimedia:

Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention, 16 Sept. 2025 [access]

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