Emre was awarded a PhD from Istanbul University’s International Relations PhD Programme in 2016, and he was a British Academy Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) for two years before becoming a Departmental Lecturer in the MSc in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnoography (SAME). As a political scientist and international relations expert, he is driven by a passion to shed light on the social and political impact of technological innovation, focusing surveillance technologies in migration management, border security, and international development. His first monograph, Smarton Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants, was published by the Bristol University Press in December 2023. He co-edited Data Science for Migration and Mobility — with Professor Albert Ali Salah (University of Utrecht) and Dr Tuba Bircan (University of Cambridge) — which was published by the Oxford University Press Proceedings of the British Academy in November 2022.
Sessions in which Emre Eren Korkmaz participates
Thursday 21 May, 2026
In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to digital identities to manage migratory movements. These are surveillance technologies that have intensified the militarization of borders and became a testing ground for surveillance capitalism. This talk explores how these technologies reproduce structural inequalities and grant extensive powers to states and big tech corporations to control migran...
Sessions in which Emre Eren Korkmaz attends
Wednesday 20 May, 2026
Opening conference on Canadian immigration policy and politicsDetails to come
Thursday 21 May, 2026
This panel examines the political and institutional dimensions of digital transformation in migration governance. Drawing on perspectives ranging from computational social science to critical border studies, panelists examine how algorithmic systems, big data infrastructures, and digitalized policy processes reshape state power over human mobility — and how the public is responding.
Fenwick Mckelvey (Concordia University) and Alessandra Renzi (Concordia) This interactive workshop brings together the People’s Consultation on AI initiative and the conference's focus on ADT in migration. The session opens with a presentation of the Consultations process and its results, offering attendees an overview of...