International migration and digital technology: an overview

McAuliffe, Marie

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“…What is problematic about such accounts is that they assume a zero-sum game between the agency of human caseworkers and the presumed decision-making powers of digital technologies, thus invoking the spectre of a looming automation of migration control (Biselli and Beckmann 2020 ; McAuliffe 2021 ; Molnar 2021 ). This dystopic narrative might offer – precisely because of its pop-cultural appeal – a powerful resource for scandalising the growing use of highly invasive surveillance technologies on asylum seekers.…”

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Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures

Scheel

2024

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In a growing number of destination countries state authorities have started to use various digital devices such as analysis of data captured from mobile phones to verify asylum seekers’ claimed country of origin. This move has prompted some critics to claim that asylum decision-making is increasingly delegated to machines. Based on fieldwork at a reception centre in Germany, this paper mobilises insights from science and technology studies (STS) to develop a framework that allows for more nuanced analyses and modes of critiques of the digitisation of asylum procedures. Rather than thinking human and non-human forms of agency as external to one another in order to juxtapose them in a zero-sum game, I comprehend the introduction of digital technologies as a reconfiguration of existing human-machine configurations. This conception highlights how the use digital technologies enables caseworkers to retain their position as an epistemic authority in asylum decision-making by assembling clues about asylum seekers’ country of origin generated by digital technologies into hard juridical evidence. Subsequently, I develop an alternative critique that focuses on epistemic implications of the digitisation of asylum procedures. I identify a particular version of data colonialism that enables epistemic domination by means of data extraction.

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Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures

Scheel

2024

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…There exists a rich body of migration literature on the role of AI and ADT (Advanced Digital Technologies) in border control and the management of migration, also its nexus with international governance and surveillance (see Nalbandian, Dreher 2022;McAuliffe 2021;Bither, Ziebarth 2020), but little on its relationship to the world of (migrant + mobile) work. However, it is clear that the precarisation of work and other dimensions outlined by Honneth will have massive impacts on migrant labor.…”

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New Technologies, Migration and the Future of Work

Hillmann

2022

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1 Report Overview: Technological, Geopolitical and Environmental Transformations Shaping Our Migration and Mobility Futures

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Triandafyllidou

2022

World Migration Report

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The opinions expressed in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the report do not imply expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IOM concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning its frontiers or boundaries.IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental organization, IOM acts with its partners in the international community to: assist in meeting the operational challenges of migration; advance understanding of migration issues; encourage social and economic development through migration; and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants.

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International migration and digital technology: an overview

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures

Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures

New Technologies, Migration and the Future of Work

1 Report Overview: Technological, Geopolitical and Environmental Transformations Shaping Our Migration and Mobility Futures

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