[Commlist] workshop on Datafication of Borders and Migration

Please consider joining us online (or in person in Toronto for those 
attending ICA) for a one day workshop on Datafication of Borders and 
Migration on May 25.  Free registration is open at 
https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/events/2023/05/datafication-borders-migration/
 Co-convened by Anna Triandafyllidou, CERC Migration, Toronto 
Metropolitan University, Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, Kaarina 
Nikunen, Tampere University, Younes Ahouga, CERC Migration, Toronto 
Metropolitan University, and Lucia Nalbandian, CERC Migration, Toronto 
Metropolitan University and University of Toronto.

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. 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.
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. Critical 
data studies have highlighted that automated social sorting 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. While at the same 
time, data driven technologies also provide systems that support new 
forms of resistance and activism for people who are seeking asylum or 
who are on the move.  This workshop brings together scholars from 
different disciplines to introduce their research on digital 
technologies and datafication in migration and to discuss its ambivalent 
and contradictory role for migrants compared to refugees, as well as the 
unsettling consequences of the use of datafication in bordering and 
policymaking. This workshop is organized in collaboration with CERC 
Migration TMU; 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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