26 March 2026

Thematic Focus: ICTs & Other Technologies

Short pieces:

"ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it," NPR, 5 March 2026 [text]

Leveraging AI for community-based protection (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Ukrainians.

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology (openDemocracy, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Visit Migration + Tech Monitor to read other openDemocracy articles published under this initiative (scroll down to view).

Reports: 

Building a Different World - from the Ground Up! (Migration + Tech Monitor & Refugee Law Lab, Feb. 2026) [text]

Ethical Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Country of Origin Information (COI) (ACCORD, Jan. 2026) [text]
- See also earlier related blog post.

Managing Fuzziness: Leveraging LLMs for Discovering Credibility Indicators in Asylum Cases, MOBILE Working Paper Series, no. 81 (Univ. of Copenhagen, Jan. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Deportation Theater: An Analysis of ICE’s Twitter Account," Southwestern Law Review (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

"From evidence to testimony: how AI-generated images of refugees can make demands," photographies, vol. 19, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Gaining tolerance of immigrants through simulating migratory experiences: Quasi-experimental evidence from secondary school classrooms," Computers & Education, vol 249 (Aug. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

"The Impact of Digitalization on Asylum System Management in Mexico," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 13 March 2026 [full-text]

"Spatial Information for Border Health System Management in Stateless Persons and Migrant Working Group," Journal of Spatial Innovation Development, vol. 7, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the Thai–Lao border area.

Multimedia:

The aid sector’s techno-colonialism problem (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Feb. 2026) [access]

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