Panel Discussion: Affordances of Digital Tools in Shaping Migration Governance [EN]
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Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION
09.07.2025, 16:15-17:45 Uhr
HYBRID: on-site in room GD 102 & online
Lecture discussion:
“Affordances of Digital Tools in Shaping Migration Governance”
This panel discussion will explore the role of digital technologies—including AI and machine translation—in migration governance and asylum processes. It will examine how data infrastructures and socio-technical networks influence perceptions of race, gender, and migration within these systems. The conversation will also address the use of digital tools in assessing gender, sexual orientation, and experiences of violence, as well as country of origin assessments. The session will critically consider the colonial legacies embedded in AI technologies and their reinforcement of power dynamics highlighting how these technologies intersect with broader issues of categorisation, dehumanisation, and exclusion, shedding light on their role in shaping social hierarchies.
Speakers:
- Dr. Jasper Van der Kist (Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp)
- Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider (Chair Holder of Language Use and Migration, EUV)
- Dr. Marija Grujić (DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
- Dr. Silvan Pollozek (Chair of Sociology of Technology, European New School of Digital Studies, EUV)
Please register here:
https://forms.europa-uni.de/form/provide/2012/?lang=en