This is it! Is it really about the algorithm or the visa policy itself? 👇

I look forward to this course in June! There’s still time to register - see below 👇

So happy to have finally met the incredible Lisel Hintz, who has been providing invaluable support to scholars from Turkey and Syria through consistent online sessions over 52 weeks! So pleased to finally meet her in person today at #ISA2024 !

You can follow our collaborative work of the COST ACTION DATAMIG now here! For everyone interested in datafication incl. datafication 'from below' in the context of migration and border control!

I'm thrilled to be joining both old and new colleagues at #ISA2024 . Today, we had fascinating discussions on the use of digital technologies in asylum, conflicts, state surveillance, and foreign relations.

What is at stake with the increasing automation of public decision-making?

In a new article German Law Journal, Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School & AFAR researcher Francesca Ettore Palmiotto examines automated decision-making under EU law.

Read here:

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨TNI with SOMO, IT for Change and Statewatch present:

A free six-week course from brilliant experts and activists taking on Big Tech worldwide and advancing an alternative digital world rooted in justice.

ℹ️tni.org/en/form/pre-re…

It was re-energizing to contribute to the workshop on strategic litigation in European law in Amsterdam with Geert Van Calster, Sofie Fleerackers, Adam Ploszka, Justin Borg-Barthet,Francesca Farrington,Dion Kramer,Francesca Ettore Palmiotto,Derya Ozkul, Mario Pagano,Virginia Passalacqua ,Clemens Kaupa,Swee Leng Harris & many…

And that's why 30+ civil organisations, academics, & legal professionals have written to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology.

This is the moment to properly commit to being open about government use of AI.

We need #AITransparencyNow .

bit.ly/48W3wSr

Looking forward to discussing strategic litigation in European law next week with Alberto Alemanno,Geert Van Calster, Sofie Fleerackers, Adam Ploszka, Justin Borg-Barthet,Francesca Farrington,Dion Kramer,Francesca Ettore Palmiotto,Derya Ozkul, Mario Pagano,Virginia Passalacqua ,Clemens Kaupa,Swee Leng Harris & others

🧵1 - The EU has (finally) passed the EU #AIAct

After four long years of negotiations, many will celebrate.

But this text does NOT equally protect the rights of everyone facing dangerous surveillance tech

#ProtectNotSurveil outlines why the law fails migrants + racial justice

The EU Parliament adopts the #AIAct and it sets a dangerous precedent for the regulation of AI in the migration sphere

The #ProtectNotSurveil coalition explain why it enables the use of harmful AI by police&migration control and it fails people's rights

accessnow.org/press-release/…

Also fyi Maja Janmyr (@myrmek.bsky.social) Estella w bas Tom Scott-Smith

It was great to get together with the AFAR team European University Institute last week to reflect on the project's findings so far and its exciting ongoing research plans! ✍️
Cathryn Costello
Martin Ruhs
Lenka Dražanová
William Hamilton Byrne
Francesca Ettore Palmiotto
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Iris Goldner Lang
Derya Ozkul

On Wednesday, join us online for our final seminar this term:

'Human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory'

Speaker: Francesca P Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories)

🗓️ Wed 13 March, 12-1pm UK

Register 👉 zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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🔥BREAKING🔥
The Information Commissioner Office finds the Home Office’s pilot of GPS electronic monitoring of migrants UNLAWFUL.
This is a powerful decision. A huge well done to Privacy International team for their careful/detailed report/complaint to ICO.

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

Pleased to share my latest w/ the wonderful Dr. Gerda Heck. We look at Development Programs and Border Externalization in Egypt-what is the aim of such programs? Do such programs really influence a migrant’s decision to further journey on? Feedback welcome!

What are the global politics behind the datafication of borders? How do orgs like the IOM contribute to these processes? I try and answer these questions in a new piece in Geopolitics out today. Click below for one of 50 free copies: tandfonline.com/eprint/XHNWADK…

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Call for Contributions for Handbook

‚Doing EU Studies Otherwise: Colonialism, Empire and Race’

Co-edited by Rosalba Icaza, Jan Orbie, Siddharth Tripati & myself

Abstracts by 25 March 2024

Feel free to share within your networks

Now available w/ 20% discount (promo code CUP20) at the ColumbiaUP.

Contributors include Abbott, Baldassarri, Bearman, Beckert, Carruthers, DiMaggio, Espeland, Fligstein, Fourcade, Jasper, Khan, Klinenberg, Lee, Martin, Moore, Musselin, Tavory, Marta Tienda, Stefan…