PROJECT SECURITY FLOWS
@securityflows
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@ERC_Research funded project 'Enacting border security in the digital age: Political worlds of data forms, flows & frictions'. (PI: @claudia_aradau)
Joined July 2019
📆📰Find out more about our latest updates, events, blog, and workshops here: https://t.co/Dyp2uIhv7R - &- 📑📝For out our latest publications from the project and related research we have done over the past years, visit:
securityflows.org
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'How to (un)do borders with data' on 19-20 September 2024 with an amazing line-up of speakers and interventions on #markets #ignorance #labour #value #extraction #counterarchives and much more. Details at https://t.co/uecLYSizRm.
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🌐We discuss platform dominance, the evolving evidence landscape, gender dynamics, and recommendations for a fairer system. #DigitalJustice #AsylumRights #digitalrights
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📢🚨New publication! Our report 'The Burden Of Data: Digital Tools, Evidence And Credibility In Asylum And Immigration Courts' sheds light on the digital hurdles migrants face. Available for download at https://t.co/DJkbhvY9sW
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Look forward to speaking at nccr – on the move about @securityflows research with @L_Canzutti and @SarahCPerret on #data borders, mess and critiques of mess. Online this evening from 18.00 CET/5pm GMT https://t.co/Dlfb7YT99t
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💬 We'd love to connect with you and discuss your suggestions or concerns. We’ll introduce the app, which is part of the #SecurityFlowsProject on the intersection of #migration governance, #borders and #data practices.
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📣 Calling civil society! Would you try out our new research app aiming to understand where, when, and how data about migrants is collected? 🤝Join one of our online feedback sessions: 📅 Fri 24 Nov/Fri 1 Dec 🕒 12:00-13:00 GMT DM or securityflows@kcl.ac.uk
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Short reads on #migration, #surveillance, #bigdata, #AI. Discover how these new technologies are shaping migration governance and what it means for the future. 🔍big thanks to @claudia_aradau @_PMolnar @PhilippeMFrowd @Biometricstate
@canmutlu @WaltersWHCh Ozgun Topak
📢#OutNow latest issue of International Migration! #CheckOut special issue on #environmental and #climate #Migration , commentaries on #AI and #Border technologies, book reviews & much more! #free2read #OpenAccess
https://t.co/020YaQcIAD
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Join us for a seminar series that tackles questions of #AI, #politics, #disruption (and its appropriation), organised with colleagues from Aristotle University Thessaloniki. The first seminar revisits #ethics on 18/10 @ElkeSchwarz
https://t.co/pLHuAkBZ3U
kcl.ac.uk
As big tech companies have started to fire their ethics teams and ethical commitments have been accused of ‘ethics-washing’, this seminar revisits questions about AI ethics.
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New paper from my research on secrecy and border management: "Making Pushbacks Public: Secrecy, Material Witnesses and Devices of Dis/appearance" is now available in @SecDialogue
https://t.co/eSKV5grhuZ
journals.sagepub.com
In early 2021, the European Parliament established the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) to monitor all aspects of the functioning of the European Border an...
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"Digital expulsions. Refugees’ carcerality and the technological disruptions of asylum" https://t.co/SxrVR58PfP
@envplanc The article explores how digital technologies are used for hampering migrants from becoming asylum seekers and getting access to rights
journals.sagepub.com
Introducing the notion of “digital expulsions”, this paper argues that digital technologies in refugee humanitarianism are mainly used for hampering migrants fr...
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Excited at latest @ProcessCitizens article with @wvrossem: Scripts of Alterity singles out the types of others enacted by European+national data infrastructures. It is OA! and part of special issue @STHV_journal on Scripts of Security with @claudia_aradau
journals.sagepub.com
This article empirically maps and compares types of knowledge produced about people on the move by the European border security apparatus. Exploring two complem...
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Very happy to co-convene together with @Pollozek the panel "Researching Digital Borders: Contesting 21st Century B/Orders" this morning in Frankfurt / Oder. https://t.co/KgCsAB4zuV
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REPORT LAUNCH: 'Risking Lives: Smart Borders, Private Interests and AI Policy in Europe' from the DATAJUSTICE project. Read it here: https://t.co/OKulD7U4dj
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In June 2022, a pilot scheme was introduced to fit GPS ankle devices (aka tracker tags) on people seeking asylum. The HO has now expanded this pilot to examine the impact of EM on compliance with immigration bail conditions. A quick thread (1/12) https://t.co/pkaxaUO7zC.
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Sharing the first article coming out of my latest research on secrecy in EU border and migration management: "Performing secrecy: hiding and obfuscation in Frontex’s pushbacks scandal" https://t.co/ske7VNXsmH
tandfonline.com
In this paper, I investigate how non-knowledge about border violence is maintained through secrecy. I do so by focusing on Frontex's maritime pushback scandal. The first argument I develop is that ...
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3/3 - She also points to the role of "trauma brokers", and the role that distance plays (in both space & time). Throughout, she shows how “investment in apps has been alarmingly diverted from spending on conventional services and mental health infrastructure” (p521)
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2/3 - Abdelrahman discusses the use of mental health & PTSD as tools of authentication - which links to the work on production of subjectivities through "regimes of error/truth & fake/authenticity" discussed in @SarahCPerret & @claudia_aradau's piece: https://t.co/NkZTb4AhXO
cambridge.org
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity - Volume 48 Issue 3
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1/3 - Sharing this insightful piece, '#Trauma apps and the making of the ‘smart’ #refugee' by Prof Maha Abdelrahman @mma49 published earlier this year: https://t.co/hia0SFUBLy The article discusses the collection and use of what Abdelrahman refers to as "mental prints".
journals.sagepub.com
A market for mental health apps, designed to help millions of refugees manage symptoms of Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder and other mental health issues, has p...
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UK #Biometrics Commissioner resigns in anticipation of role’s elimination #surveillance
https://t.co/MbxLMZJIvZ
biometricupdate.com
His letter of resignation states that the functions of his two roles is rendered irrelevant by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
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