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  • CALL FOR PAPERS - Managing Migration: Advanced Digital Technologies and the Movement of People

    2024-11-11

    Call for Papers for the IRIE Volume 35

    We invite submissions from any discipline, methodology, or a combination of them that address the themes listed below, including, but not limited to:

    • Ethical frameworks and principles guiding the use of ADTs in migration management
    • Case studies on the implementation of ethical guidelines in migration data handling
    • Challenges and effects of digitization of borders
    • Surveillance and border policing and its impact on migrants and refugees
    • Big data, AI, social media, and their impact on migrants and refugees
    • Digital economy, data centers, and migrant populations
    • Legal implications and ethical considerations of digitization in migration contexts
    • Humanitarian discourse and intervention in migration challenges
    • Intersection of ADTs with migrants’ welfare and security, such as the use of ADTs by migrants themselves to advance their own interests
    • Digital activism in migrant advocacy
    • Ecocritical migration studies on the human, natural, and technological relationships

    Deadline for submission: January 25, 2025, 11:59 PM (AoE)

    Submission Guidelines: Proposals should not exceed 500 words. They should be prepared for anonymous review and sent as a PDF file to yoldas@ualberta.ca. In a separate PDF attachment, please include your name, academic affiliation, e-mail address, and proposal title. For more information, please contact us at yoldas@ualberta.ca.

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