Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants

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3:45 PM, Thursday 21 May 2026 (1 hour 15 minutes)

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 migrants and communities.

Emre Eren Korkmaz

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Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants

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