[Commlist] Call for papers: Datafication of borders and migration

    Call for papers: Datafication of borders and migration, May 25, 
perhaps of interest too to people attending ICA 2023
    URL: 
https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/cerc-migration/opportunities/Call-for-Papers-Datafication-of-Borders.pdf
    Web page: 
https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/news/2022/11/call-datafication-borders-migration/

    For an international workshop, co-convened by the Canada Excellence 
Research Chair in Migration and Integration; Intimacy in Data Driven 
Culture project, Tampere University; and Co-Designing a Fair Digital 
Asylum Research Project and Digital Migration Special Interest Group, 
Utrecht University

    Digital technologies and datafied systems are increasingly used to 
surveil, control and manage migration, shifting the balance in the 
humanitarianism-securitization nexus. New automated systems from facial 
recognition to language detection have profoundly intensified and 
changed migration and border policies (Nalbandian, 2022). Data driven 
technologies have rendered borders ubiquitous, multi-layered and 
mundane: the outside border control has become increasingly mobile, now 
travelling with and tracking migrated bodies after border crossings 
(Leurs & Ponzanesi, 2023; Aradau & Tazzioli 2020; Dijstelbloem, 2021; 
Metcalfe & Dencik, 2019; Chouliaraki & Georgiou, 2022; Ahouga, 2022).

    Datafication is often framed as a phenomenon that concerns 
everyone: in a highly networked digital world, datafication cannot be 
escaped. However, datafication does not treat everyone in the same way. 
Automated social sorting, critical data studies highlighted, is often 
based on categorizations and assumptions that echo existing social 
biases and historical power structures, as well as pervasive and 
accumulative surveillance of the already marginalized (Gangadharan & 
Niklas, 2019; Ajana, 2019; Colman, 2016; Nikunen & Valtonen, 2023). At 
the same time, data driven technologies also provide systems of help, 
aid and witnessing, as well as new forms of resistance and activism to 
support people who are seeking asylum or who are on the move (Gillespie 
et al., 2018, Glouftsios & Scheel, 2020; Latonero & Kift, 2018).

    The goal of this one-day conference is to bring together scholars 
to introduce their research on digital technologies and datafication in 
migration and discuss the ambivalent and contradictory role of 
datafication and digital technologies for migrants and refugees, as well 
as the unsettling consequences of datafication in bordering and 
policymaking.

    We invite papers that explore these issues from different global 
contexts and disciplines, from media and communication, migration 
studies, critical data studies, cultural studies, gender studies, 
postcolonial studies, science and technology studies, law, social 
anthropology, criminology, data science and geography. The event fosters 
cross-disciplinary dialogues of qualitative research, ethnography, 
digital methods and critical data studies.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Affect and emotions related to border practices
    Biopolitics of borders
    Border and migration policy and datafication
    Data biases
    Datafied border infrastructures
    Detention, incarceration and data
    Digital bordering
    Digitization of asylum procedures
    Experience of data and borders
    Gender, decolonial, postcolonial and critical race studies
    Resistance, protest and activism
    Information practices
    Surveillance
    Witnessing

    Submissions for papers should include an abstract (300-400 words 
indicating main research questions, methods and expected results) and a 
short biographical note (150 words) about the author including 
her/his/their current position and interest in the field of digital 
media and migration.

    Submissions should be emailed to (cerc.migration /at/ ryerson.ca) by 
January 10, 2023.

    Accepted participants will be notified by January 30, 2023.

    For further questions please mail: (Kaarina.nikunen /at/ tuni.fi) and 
(K.H.A.Leurs /at/ uu.nl)

    Organizing committee:

    Koen Leurs, Utrecht University
    Kaarina Nikunen, Tampere University
    Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Younes Ahouga, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Lucia Nalbandian, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University 
and University of Toronto
    The conference is organized in collaboration with the Canada 
Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto 
Metropolitan University; Intimacy in Data Driven Culture (IDA) project, 
Tampere University; the Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum Research 
Project and the Digital Migration Special Interest Group, Utrecht 
University.


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