Sandro Mezzadra provides a powerful afterword on "The Digital Borderlands," reflecting on mass immigration enforcement in the US and the role of digital technologies in both surveillance and resistance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Following insightful workshop at IWM Vienna and a more formal international conference in Istanbul in 2022, and much collective work since, our International Migration Special Issue on the "Entangled and Uneven Landscapes of Digitised Migration" is out.

Marianna Poyares, PhD presents the notion of "migrant data extractivism," focusing on DNA collection and AI chatbots to show how forcibly displaced persons are exploited for behavioral data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kelly Bescherer and Stephan Scheel introduce the concept of "regimes of proof" to explore how states establish legal identities and how these digital identification processes are contested by migrants. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Denise Cogo and Julia Camargo analyze the digitalization of migration governance on the Brazil–Venezuela border, examining how militarization and security narratives impact migrants' access to services. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ava Zevop and Soline Ballet historicize facial recognition, moving beyond "algorithmic bias" to examine the structural conditions and colonial legacies that organize machine learning around the assumption of race. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Didier Bigo argues that the digitization of prediction leads to a "banalisation of suspicion," where AI-driven profiles rank travelers by "danger level," eroding traditional liberal security. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paul Trauttmansdorff and Chiara Loschi trace the making of "interoperability" between EU databases, revealing how these large-scale IT systems create multiple, often conflicting, modes of ordering. ·

Martina Tazzioli interrogates the production of "scattered digital subjectivities," showing how multiple data extractions generate fragmented digital traces that haunt and disrupt migrant journeys. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Manish K Jha and Anindita Chakrabarty examine the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India, investigating how the digitization of citizenship sorts and segregates "authentic" citizens from non-citizens. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lucrezia Canzutti highlights "absent tech" at EU borders, arguing that the deliberate absence of certain technologies enables "epistemic borderwork" that erases migrants' rights claims. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the Introduction, Çağlar, Novak, Doná, Jha, and Ćuković explore how digital technologies have become inextricably linked to the infrastructures and governance of international migration, resulting in increasingly uneven landscapes of control. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What stands out is the stellar roster of contributors and the strong, methodologically diverse evidence they bring from across continents. Here’s a quick look at the papers:

Here is a quick peek at its content:

(and next time we will try to find a non-cartesian map to pinpoint our activities, promise)

...and we will kick off at 1pm
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