Éditeurs invités
- Safa'a AbuJarour, An-Najah National University
- Hameed Chughtai, Lancaster University Management School
- Yingqin Zheng, University of Essex
Synthèse
With approximately 110 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, the global refugee and migration crisis demands innovative solutions from information systems research. While IS scholars have begun examining refugee social inclusion, ICT-enabled integration, and digitization in refugee settlements, critical areas at the intersection of technology, refugees, and migration remain underexplored, including emerging technologies like AI and blockchain in refugee management, digital colonialism, gender-based violence, and questions of power and control.
This special issue invites multidisciplinary submissions from IS, social sciences, public policy, humanitarian studies, and related fields that address real-world issues at the intersection of refugees, migration, and technology. The editors seek high-quality research that applies critical IS perspectives to examine how technology shapes refugee and migrant experiences, considering themes of mobility, identity, empowerment, subjugation, control, marginality, and decoloniality.
Thèmes proposés
- Critical analyses of the interrelated themes of identity, refugeeness, and belonging
- Exploring the ethics of (forced) migration
- Analysing the politics of responsibility and the integration of refugees and migrants in digital contexts
- Technology, racial marginalization and refugees experience
- Digital biopolitics, identities, and datafication of migrants and refugees
- Online activism and digital social movements in the context of refugees or migrants
- Agency, resistance and coping mechanisms of migrants and refugees
- Examining the issues at the intersections of gender, technology, and migrants/refugees (including queering migration and issues of gender-based violence)
- Digitally-entangled lived experiences of minorities among refugee populations
- Datafication of borders and algorithmic management of migrants and refugees
- Decolonial justice and/for migrants and refugees
- Digital justice and human rights issues affecting migrants and refugees
- Digital and data surveillance and control on migrants and refugees
- Issues related to power and exploitation of migrants and refugees
- Critical narratives of displacement
- Digital accounts and narratives of refugee experience
- Technology and the political philosophy of migration and refuge
- Novel theoretical lenses to study migration and refugee issues such as decolonial theory, spatial and temporal perspectives, Indigenous viewpoints, critical race theory, and feminist approaches
- Novel methodological approaches to examine refugee issues such as visual ethnography, visual research, and digitally mediated bodily experiences
- Application of novel technologies such as Blockchain and AI
Éditeurs associés
Petros Chamakiotis, ESCP Business School
Andrea Jimenez, University of Sheffield
Shirin Madon, London School of Economics
Marco Marabelli, Bentley University
Carmen Leong, University of New South Wales
Shaila Miranda, University of Arkansas
Priyanka Panday, Kings College London
Israr Qureshi, Australian National University
Maximilian Schreieck, University of Innsbruck
Devinder Thapa, University of Agder
Ranjan Vaidya, Auckland University of Technology