Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information

van der Kist, Jasper

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2024.2307784

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“…Accordingly, a suspicion by-default approach is considered as a sign of professionalism by many caseworkers, efficiently resulting in an inversion of the burden of proof (Affolter 2022 ). It is the asylum seeker who has to convince caseworkers of the credibility of their ‘protection story’ and the existence of verifiable ‘well-founded fear’ through a narrative that is considered as ‘consistent’ and ‘plausible’ by caseworkers as its core features resonate with available ‘country of origin information’ (COI) (Thomas 2006 ; van der Kist 2024 , this issue).…”

Section: A Material-semiotic Reading Of Asylum Procedures: Human-mach...mentioning

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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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Section: A Material-semiotic Reading Of Asylum Procedures: Human-mach...mentioning

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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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Reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special issue

Amelung,

Scheel,

van Reekum

2024

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Migration information infrastructures: power, control and responsibility at a new frontier of migration research

Meissner,

Taylor

2024

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information

Cited by 3 publications

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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

Reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special issue

Migration information infrastructures: power, control and responsibility at a new frontier of migration research

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