Short pieces:
AI age assessment: why it puts child asylum-seekers at risk (ODI Comment,
Sept. 2026) [text]
Closing the digital divide for refugee women means understanding their full
experience of connectivity (GSMA Blog, Sept. 2026) [text]
When AI Explains African Crises, Local Knowledge Is Barely Visible (African
Arguments, Aug. 2026) [text]
When Digital ID leaves people behind (ENS Blog, Oct. 2026) [text]
New open access book:
Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics
of Migration Control
(Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026) [open access]
- "Positioned at the intersection of criminology, critical migration
studies, and socio-technical analysis, this book argues that AI and other
autonomous surveillance technologies do not simply 'manage' migration:
instead, these tools actively produce racialized suspicion, legitimize
expanded policing, and enable new forms of pre-emptive control over
people-on-the-move, often leading to adverse outcomes including
discrimination, racism, and even death. The term border
necrotechnics describes the assemblage of automated systems,
infrastructures, and practices through which states and corporations
decide which lives are rendered killable, deportable, or indefinitely
surveilled at and beyond the border. Drawing on interdisciplinary
scholarship, this book situates border AI and surveillance within a
broader genealogy of punishment, racialized security practices, and the
policing of global mobility. The author argues that AI systems automate
historical logics of exclusion, embedding them in digital infrastructures
that appear neutral yet replicate deep structural inequalities."
Reports & journal articles:
Artificial Intelligence and Asylum Decision-Making: Any Role for Human
Rights Law?, Policy Brief, no. 2026:3 (Delmi Swedish Delegation for
Migration Research, 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Europe.
"Between community development and humanitarian communication in protracted
encampment: young refugees, aid agencies, and Facebook,"
Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 7 Sept. 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Kenya.
"Database(d) Immigration Enforcement," Cardozo Law Review, vol.
48 (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.
"Extract, Violate, and Scare: Data Mining Tools Take Over the Immigration
Surveillance State," Surveillance & Society, vol. 24, no. 4
(2026) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.
"Navigating Borders and Screens: ICTs Practices and Digital Mimicry in the
Sub-Saharan Boza Journey," African Human Mobility Review, vol.
12, no. 2 (2026) [open access]
- Focuses on "Cameroonians en route to Europe via Morocco."
"Smartphone Technology, Social Network Maintenance and Social Participation
among Mandarin-speaking older immigrants in Canada,"
The Gerontologist, vol. 66, no. 9 (Sept. 2026) [open access]
- See also earlier
related article.
"Teacher Perceptions of GenAI-Integrated Digital Storytelling for
Refugee-Background Youth," TESOL Quarterly, Early View, 24 Aug.
2026 [open access]
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