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The dangers of border technology for refugees | Fixing Aid

The dangers of border technology for refugees | Fixing Aid

FromThe New Humanitarian


The dangers of border technology for refugees | Fixing Aid

FromThe New Humanitarian

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
May 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How are mass surveillance, biometric data, and other high-tech border measures affecting refugees and migrants? In this episode of Fixing Aid, host Alae Ismail speaks to a Latinx community organiser and migration researchers on the use of border and surveillance technology aimed at stopping refugees and migrants from crossing European and American borders. She also hears from people on the move who share what it feels like to be watched and tracked at all times.   Guests: Cinthya Rodriguez, national organiser at Mijente; Niamh Ni Bhriain, War and Pacification coordinator at the Transnational Institute; Petra Molnar, lawyer associated with the Migration and Technology Monitor and associate director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University.
Released:
May 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The New Humanitarian brings you an inside look at the conflicts and natural disasters that leave millions of people in need each year, and the policies and people who respond to them. Join TNH’s journalists in the aid policy hub of Geneva and in global hotspots to unpack the stories that are disrupting and shaping lives around the world.