[Commlist] CFP: 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 
<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/ 
<https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/news/2022/11/call-datafication-borders-migration/>

Image <https://twitter.com/koenleurs/status/1598589015220944897/photo/1>

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 (tocerc.migration /at/ ryerson.ca) 
<mailto:(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) 
<mailto:(Kaarina.nikunen /at/ tuni.fi)> (andK.H.A.Leurs /at/ uu.nl) 
<mailto:(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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