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.

This panel focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and migrant labour, from the tools migrants use to find work, to the conditions under which they do it. Panelists will draw on cases spanning the recruitment pipeline, examining how fintech, recruitment platforms, and the gig affect migrants at every stage: from algorithmic matching and digital labour contracting in origin countries to platform-based work at destination. 

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 how public deliberation on AI has been organized and what key concerns and perspe...

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...