05 January 2026

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

Criminalisation at European Borders and the Role of Artificial Intelligence (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

ILO empowers refugee and host communities in Ethiopia through digital skills training (ILO, Dec. 2025) [text]

Introduction to the Symposium on Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (Verfassungsblog, Nov. 2025) [text]
- View the posts that are part of this symposium here.

Reports & journal articles:

"Immobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Mobile Perspective of Detained Refugees on Twitter," Rilce: Revista de FilologĂ­a Hispánica, vol. 42, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"The 'Other' through the eyes of the host: a discourse analysis of American and German YouTube users’ reactions to migration and immigrant issues," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:89 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"REGEN: REfugeesGENeration - AI Can Transform How We Recognize and Empower Refugees," PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, no. 9 (2025) [open access]

Social Inclusion, vol. 14 (2026) [open access]
- Thematic issue in progress on "Digitalization and Migration: Rethinking Socio-Economic Inclusions and Exclusions." 

Surveillance & Society, vol. 23, no. 4 (2025) [open access]
- Features "a guest-edited section on 'Global Futures of Digital Confinement'. Articles focus on immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Utilising AI and Emerging Technologies in Humanitarian Operations – responding to Forced Displacement from a Human Rights Perspective, Legal and Protection Policy Research Paper, no. PPLA/2025/02 (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Note: For some reason, the document wasn't accessible when I tried to view it, but the glitch should be fixed at some point!

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