Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 25/08/2026🎓 Honoring 2025/2026 Graduating Fellow Aqila Abdelkarim! Building on her work with MentalEase, medical professional Aqila combines tech & creative art to simplify mental health access for refugees & communities across East Africa. Curious about her work? Learn more here: mentalease.org 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 18/08/2026🚨 NEW BOOK RELEASE: "Border Necrotechnics" by Petra Molnar (FREE Open Access!) Examining how automated border tech decides who lives & dies, in dialogue with Mbembe, Achiume, Benjamin & Browne. Published with Palgrave Macmillan & Springer Nature. Download here: bit.ly/460diE5 021
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 14/08/2026Celebrating our graduating 2025/2026 Fellows! Sophia Amimo, founder of Domestic Workers Returnees of Kenya. A returnee herself, Sophia used storytelling & investigative reporting to expose how tech is used to surveil & exploit migrant workers. Follow her work at dwrok.org 010
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 11/08/2026When war erupted in the Persian Gulf, technology became a double-edged sword for migrant workers. Smartphone alerts offered updates, but social media fueled waves of panic across labor camps. Rajendra Paudel examines fear and uncertainty in the UAE: bit.ly/4fYTBkM 020
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 19/06/2026We were thrilled to moderate and present at #DRAPAC2026, in a panel titled “Reimagining Borders: Migration, Surveillance, and Human Rights in the Global South.” Thank you organizers DAKILA and Foundation for Media Alternatives, and partners OHCHR, @idcoalition.bsky.social, and ELSAM. 100
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 16/06/2026The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built w/ @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, & @refugeelab.ca, this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, showing how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim from Big Tech's dominance. airesistlist.org 01310
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 11/06/2026In an interview with a Kashmiri journalist writing under a pseudonym, everyday life emerges as a landscape shaped by checkpoints, phone searches, and the constant possibility of state scrutiny. Read the full interview via @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/surveillance... 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 09/06/2026For too long, the Global North has deployed digital tools to manage migration without involving those most affected. This has led to "digital othering," where algorithms scale discrimination and strip people of their agency. 🧵 bit.ly/4wjc8zk 131
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 08/06/2026The MTM is at #DRAPAC - The Digital Rights Asia Pacific Assembly in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 organized by @engagemedia.org, Foundation for Media Alternatives, and DAKILA. Come see our panel on border surveillance with ELSAM, @idcoalition.bsky.social, OHCHR, as well as Shakeen, journalist from Kashmir 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 04/06/2026The right to repair is a right to a future. That’s what drives Mathew Lubari, our 2024 MTM Fellow. As the Co-founder of Community Creativity for Development (CC4D), he’s teaching refugee youth and women how to reclaim their technology. Mathew shares his perspective at our 2025 gathering in Nairobi. 110
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 02/06/2026How do we move beyond research that just observes harm and toward methodologies that build power? ✊ The MTM Fellowship is built on 7 Core Principles of Participatory Methodologies. See the thread to explore the pillars of how we are building a different world. 120
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 28/05/2026Displaced communities are used as a testing ground for surveillance and border tech. “Nothing about us, without us” - people who have lived through these systems are the only ones qualified to lead the research, define the strategies, and design the pushback. www.opendemocracy.net/en/migration... 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 26/05/2026MTM Co-Founder @petramolnar.com joins Aman Sethi of @opendemocracy.net in the In Solidarity podcast to discuss why the “Border Industrial Complex” is booming and what it means for people on the move and how surveillance makes the world impassable for some people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPt2... 032
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 21/05/2026The MTM Manifesto was one of the most important outcomes of our 2025 gathering in Nairobi, Kenya. Look through the thread to see the core pillars of the movement we’re building together, and read the full report at the link in bio ☝️ 120
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 20/05/2026The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built by @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, @refugeelab.ca this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, and how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim its power from Big Tech. Check it out www.airesistlist.org 031
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 14/05/2026In a piece for @opendemocracy.net, MTM Fellow Simon Drotti challenges the way the world views displaced communities with Memory Scroll, a social platform designed to return narrative power to those who have lived through displacement. Read Simon’s full reflection here: bit.ly/3P5mS3S 010
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 24/04/2026What happens when the people most impacted by border tech are the ones in charge of the narrative? We worked with incredible Fellows and partners who are proving that the future of tech and migration can be participatory and justice-rooted. Read the report here: bit.ly/3QqskhT 000
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorAntonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Last year, I had the privilege to join the in-person gathering of the @migrationtechmonitor.com Fellowship, an initiative that supports people with lived experiences of migration. I also joined some of them on this podcast discussing technology and injustice open.spotify.com/episode/5FAj...open.spotify.comDigital Othering - How Technology Increases Injustice 251
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 09/02/2026👋 We're back! We know it's been a while, but just because we've been quiet, doesn't mean we have not been busy! Check out some of the things we have been working on over the last few months - also on our website: www.migrationtechmonitor.com 133
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorDiyar Saraçoğlu @diyarsaracoglu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025#FilistinİçinTeknoloji serimizin bu bölümünde "Migration and Technology Monitor" (@migrationtechmonitor.com) kolektifinin Filistinli araştırmacı ve dijital haklar savunucusu Mona Shtaya (@monashtaya.bsky.social) ile yaptığı söyleşiyi çevirdik: bianet.org/haber/filist...bianet.orgFilistinlilere karşı gözetim teknolojisi, duygu tanıma ve öngörücü yapay zekâ: Mona Shtaya ile söyleşi“Hayatı zorlaştıran teknoloji değil, teknolojiyi güvenlik ve askerî amaçla kullanan İsrail. Bu teknolojileri önce Filistinliler üzerinde test edip sonra dünyaya satıyorlar; işgalden kâr ediyorlar.” 052
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 24/04/2025📢 We are thrilled to welcome our THIRD cohort of fellows! Joining us are: 🔵 Sophia Amimo, Kenya 🔴 Aqila Abdelkarim, Somaliland 🟡 Abid, Kashmir 🟢 Issa Amro, Palestine 🟠 Nuria Arias and Ever Martinez, detained in the United States ➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/2025fellows What will they work on? 152
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 22/04/2025Israel is using state-of-the-art technology against Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also against residents in the West Bank. 2024/25 MTM fellow and Palestinian researcher @monashtaya.bsky.social talks with us about life under high tech occupation ➡️ www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/monas-b... 064
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 21/04/2025Thanks @techpolicypress.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on social media surveillance and migration under the Trump Administration, referencing great work by @nanjala.bsky.social and @danmcquillan.bsky.social, and reporting by @aclu.org and @404media.co, among others 32012
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025AI use is rapidly growing in DHS for social media surveillance, visa revocations, and deportations—an alarming trend evident even before Trump’s second term, warns Paromita Shah, co-founder and executive director of Just Futures Law.techpolicy.pressFive Findings from an Analysis of the US Department of Homeland Security’s AI Inventory | TechPolicy.PressAI use is rapidly growing in DHS for social media surveillance, visa revocations, and deportations, warns Just Futures Law's Paromita Shah. 01510
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 17/04/2025While marginalized communities are the most affected, not even the powerful are immune - like ex-CISA director Chris Krebs. www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr... - Tony Bradley @forbes.com Silence from the cybersecurity community - only a few spoke out, like @k8em0.bsky.social @lutasecurity.bsky.socialforbes.comDeafening Silence From The Cybersecurity IndustryChris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent. 1114
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 16/04/2025#CrossCommunityJournalism is a collaboration between the MTM, @fromsea2city.bsky.social and @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social. A Greek and a Lebanese reporter, both based in #Thessaloniki, will join forces to make #localreporting on #migration more equitable. #BuildingBridges #Humanrights 051
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 27/03/2025Automated self-deportation: #CBPhome is part of #Trump's immigration reforms. The app invites people to initiate their own deportation process, @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social reports. Earlier this year, Trump took down #CBPOne, the only way for #asylumseekers to get an appointment at the border.aljazeera.comTrump unveils new ‘self-deportation’ appUS President Donald Trump has unveiled a new ‘self-deportation’ app called CBP Home. 021
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorMSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Another avoidable tragedy in the central Mediterranean: 6 dead, 40 missing after shipwreck near Lampedusa. Survivors reported that some of the missing had fallen off the boat in rough seas. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...aljazeera.comSix dead, 40 missing as migrant boat capsizes near LampedusaItalian media say 10 people rescued as search continues for more survivors. 02920
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 19/03/2025🚨 New Report: The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions finds @citizenlab.ca Read the report here: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...citizenlab.caVirtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen LabIn our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t... 133
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 18/03/2025"We want to keep as much out of the landfill as possible.We even found a home for jalapeños this year.We found out that pigs really like jalapeños"🌶️ Amazing Interview with Yoli Soto, Founder of Borderlands Produce Rescue - @mdelbosque.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7vj745xztinyurl.comFeeding the Borderlands and Beyond: A Q&A with Yoli Soto, Founder of Borderlands Produce RescueLast Tuesday morning, just as President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico went into effect, I visited a produce warehouse in Nogales, Arizona. 187
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 13/03/2025“Nothing about us without us”: People on the move interrogate border tech with the Migration and Technology Monitor. #MTM's @petramolnar.com writes for #OpenGlobalRights about gaining new perspectives through participation. #HumanRights #TechMigration www.openglobalrights.org/people-on-mo...openglobalrights.org“Nothing about us without us”: People on the move interrogate border tech with the Migration and Technology MonitorPeople with lived experiences of migration must be at the center of efforts to address the growing impact of border technologies. 000
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 11/03/2025Big thanks to Aman Sethi @opendemocracy.net for this conversation about border tech and dystopia, but also strategies of care and solidarity! Open Democracy is a great venue to share your work, like my chapter excerpt from The Walls Have Eyes earlier this year: www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...opendemocracy.net‘How do we control Palestinians? We are everywhere’Chilling new book shows how states like Israel control borders using inhumane, experimental surveillance technology 163
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 07/03/2025From Palestine to Kashmir to Xinjiang, technology is used to oppress and occupy. Want to learn more? Read our latest newsletter and sign up for MTM updates. #bordertech #humanrights To sign up: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/newsletter Latest Newsletter: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/campaigns/vi... 011
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 06/03/2025For #WorldBookDay, here is a roundup of some of my recent favourite books. What are you reading right now? My top 10: 1. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by @joyfulcarla.bsky.social and Nick Montgomery www.akpress.org/joyful-milit...akpress.orgJoyful Militancy<p><em>Joyful Militancy</em> investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vuln... 53510
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 06/03/2025🚨Don’t miss this excellent piece by the amazing journalist @waelqarssifi.bsky.social, our @migrationtechmonitor.com 2023 Fellow reflecting on the importance of data protection in post-Assad Syria (Available in English and Arabic) www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17...migrationtechmonitor.comConcerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology MonitorWael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d... 153
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorWael Qarssifi @waelqarssifi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria created a very complex and developing situation. Amid this reality, data safety does not seem like a priority. In this @migrationtechmonitor.com piece I explain why the issue should not be ignored. www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17...migrationtechmonitor.comConcerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology MonitorWael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d... 043
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 04/03/2025#DataSecurity does not come to mind as a priority in post-Assad #Syria. But effective protection of citizens’ data goes hand in hand with fundamental rights. #MTM ’s @waelqarssifi.bsky.social explains why Syrians should worry. www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/cujot17... #dataprotectionmigrationtechmonitor.comConcerns About Data Safety in Post-Assad Syria/تساؤلات حول أمن البيانات في سوريا ما بعد الأسد — Migration and Technology MonitorWael Qarssifi, MTM 2023 Fellow After the fall of Assad’s terror regime in Syria, the world is still unsure in how far to trust the new Islamist leaders. In this complex and developing situation, d... 011
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 25/02/2025Learn about the work of Judith Cabrera, one of our 2024 Fellows! Judith codirects the Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana and was interviewed by @mdelbosque.bsky.social with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/i-try-to-f...theborderchronicle.com“I Try to Focus on What’s Possible”: A Q&A with Judith Cabrera de la Rocha, Codirector of Border Line Crisis Center in TijuanaGreetings from the Border Invasion. 0106
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 18/02/2025Have you watched @aljazeera.com's FREE documentary by journalist Antony Loewenstein called The Palestine Laboratory? It features our very own 2024 Fellow @monashtaya.bsky.social and MTM's @petramolnar.com as well as friends like @memomiller.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social! 074
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 07/02/2025Last week, we hosted @elladodd.bsky.social @ihaverights.bsky.social for our monthly MTM webinars! Don't miss their report with @borderviolence.bsky.social on Greece's high-tech refugee camp on Samos island, monitored by EU-funded CCTV cameras & fingerprint collection: ihaverights.eu/samos-border...ihaverights.euPress release: NGOs on Samos uncover a covert operation against asylum seekers and the invasive use of technology in the Samos Closed Controlled Access CentreHot off the heels of being condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for systemic pushbacks, Greece is also violating the rights of asylum seekers in the digital arena. 21 January 2025, Samos,... 041
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 04/02/2025MTM director Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com with Just Security @justsecurity.org shares some of the border technologies under the second Trump administration. #humanrights #asylumseekers #bordertechBorder Technologies Under Trump 2.0 www.justsecurity.org/105662/borde...justsecurity.orgBorder Technologies Under Trump 2.0With few safeguards to govern AI deployment, high-risk experimentation at the border will likely continue during Trump's second term. 1126
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 30/01/2025The Just Security Podcast: How Border Technologies Impact Migration www.justsecurity.org/106020/podca... #humanrights #bordercrossing #asylumseekers #bordertech #usmexicoborderjustsecurity.orgThe Just Security Podcast: How Border Technologies Impact MigrationDigital technologies are impacting virtually every aspect of migration. What can we expect from the incoming Trump administration? 111
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 29/01/2025Want to keep up with the Migration and Technology Monitor? Need information on what the Trump presidency plans to do with #bordertech? Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter www.migrationtechmonitor.com/newsletter #dataandprivacyday #peopleonthemove #humanrights #bordertech 110
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 28/01/2025MTM 2023 Fellow @vmreports.bsky.social writes about the demise of the CBP One applications and the impacts on border communities in the age of Trump 2.0: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/blog/the-sud... #humanrights #bordercrossing #asylumseekers #bordertech #usmexicoborder 022
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 24/01/2025www.azfamily.com/2025/01/23/m... Written by Alexandra Rangel with @azfamily.com, some good news in the app space on the border of Mexico and the US.azfamily.comMexico launches emergency alert app for migrants in the U.S.Mexican migrants living in the U.S. now have a way to alert their families if they’ve been detained or deported with a new mobile app, ConsulApp Contigo, which the Mexican government has launched. 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 23/01/2025Thank you to everyone who shared and applied to MTM's 2025 Fellowship! A little update: we are in awe of the amount of over 500 applications, the diversity of applicants and the projects. We are going through everyone's submissions and we hope to be in contact in February 2025. #humanrights 000
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 23/12/2024gr.boell.org/en/media/aud... Migration and Technology: Listen to this podcast published by Heinrich Böll Stiftung Thessaloniki. #TechAndMigration #SurveillanceTech #PylosShipwreck #HumanRights.gr.boell.orgIs the Big Brother a saviour or a perpetrator? | Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Thessaloniki OfficeRadio Frequency Analysers, thermal cameras, drones: Can technology and artificial intelligence contribute to severe human rights violations? Florian Schmitz welcomes Wael Qarssifi, Petra Molnar, Giorg... 121
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorPetra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 20/12/2024🚨The amazing @theborderchronicle.bsky.social 🦂 is on here! Some of the most in-depth, carefully written, community grounded journalism out there! Follow the work of @memomiller.bsky.social and @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com (Still need a gift? Consider a gift subscription!)theborderchronicle.comThe Border Chronicle | SubstackOriginal Reporting and Analysis from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Click to read The Border Chronicle, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 1148
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorSeebrücke Frankfurt @seebruecke-frankfurt.de · 18/12/2024🎧 Gewalttätiger Einsatz von KI zur Grenzkontrolle Ausgrenzende & gewalttätige Grenzpolitiken werden durch KI forciert u. ohne Regulierung global vorangetrieben. 🎤 @petramolnar.com, @migrationtechmonitor.com/@refugeelawlab.bsky.social @realcatbrooks.bsky.social via @philmandelbaum.bsky.social 1/2 183
Reposted by Migration and Technology MonitorSeebrücke Frankfurt @seebruecke-frankfurt.de · 18/12/2024🎧 Der gewalttätige Einsatz von #KI zur #Grenzüberwachung 📻 bei KPFA auch direkt zum reinhören oder ⏬mp3-download. @petramolnar.com @migrationtechmonitor.com @refugeelawlab.bsky.social #BorderTech #BorderViolence #BorderSurveillance 2/2 👇kpfa.orgThe Violent Use of Artificial Intelligence as Border Enforcement; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Chris Burger | KPFAThe intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are fuel... 011