Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology

Edited by Marie McAuliffe, Head, Migration Research and Publications Division and Editor of the World Migration Report, International Organization for Migration, Switzerland; Sir Roland Wilson Fellow, School of Demography, The Australian National University, Australia; and Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

‘A pioneer Research Handbook in a burgeoning field mapping the multifaceted interlinkages between international migration and digital technology. This edited volume fills a huge gap in the current literature, providing the state of the art and exploring future avenues to better understand the profound impact of digital transformations upon the processes, patterns and politics of migration. While offering a rich array of topics, perspectives and disciplines, this Research Handbook illuminates the complexities and controversies surrounding digital technology as a facilitator and a disruptor of international migration. The reader will find insightful analyses of many topical issues, including the use of digital technology in migration research and analysis, its role as a tool of empowerment and agency of migrants across the migration cycle, the digitalization and automation of border control and population surveillance, and the spread of disinformation in the public debate. A must-read for anyone interested in the cutting-edge issues associated with migration and digital technology.’

• Contents:1 International migration and digital technology: an overview 1Marie McAuliffePART I UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION PATTERNS ANDPROCESSES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATIONRESEARCH AND ANALYSIS2 Digital migration studies 15Koen Leurs and Saskia Witteborn3 Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability 29Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel4 The roles and limitations of data science in understanding internationalmigration flows and human mobility 42Marie McAuliffe and Adam Sawyer5 The practice and politics of migration data visualization 58William Allen6 Migration networks: applications of network analysis to macroscalemigration patterns 70Valentin Danchev and Mason A. PorterPART II DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACT OF MOVING:(IM)MOBILITY, BARRIERS AND BORDERS7 Navigating borders/navigating networks: migration, technology andsocial capital 92Farah Azhar, Sara Vannini, Bryce Clayton Newell and Ricardo Gomez8 Mobile data challenges for human mobility analysis and humanitarian response 107Albert Ali Salah9 Migrant smuggling and ICT: research advances, prospects and challenges 123Georgios Papanicolaou, Parisa Diba and Georgios A. Antonopoulos10 Robots and refugees: the human rights impacts of artificial intelligenceand automated decision-making in migration 134Petra Molnar11 Drones and border control: an examination of state and non-state actoruse of UAVs along borders 152Rey KoslowskiPART III INTEGRATION, REINTEGRATION AND MIGRANTS’(DIGITAL) (VIRTUAL) (TRANSNATIONAL) IDENTITIES12 Migrant inclusion 4.0: the role of mobile tech 167Céline Bauloz13 Online technology for promoting the inclusion of refugees into highereducation: a systematic review of current approaches and developments 182Franziska Reinhardt, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Roland Happ and SarahNell-Müller14 Using ICTs to be here and not ‘here’: African migrants and religioustransnationalism 195Henrietta Nyamnjoh15 ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymediaconnectivity for international ‘study mothers’ 207Yang Wang and Sun Sun Lim16 In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible useof technology 220Nassim Majidi, Camille Kasavan and G. HarindranathPART IV CONNECTIVITY AND MIGRATION: TRENDS AND IMPACTS17 Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers 236Angela Kintominas, Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum18 Mobile money and financial inclusion of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa 251Adrian Kitimbo19 The gender dimensions of technology in the context of migration anddisplacement: a critical overview 267Ibrahim L. Saïd20 Mobility of tech professionals in the world economy: the case of Indianentrepreneurialism in the United States 284Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra21 Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures 300Jacqueline Bhabha, Abhishek Bhatia and Sam PeischPART V MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC DEBATES22 How online disinformation and far-right activism is shaping publicdebates on immigration 316Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter23 The role of networked publics in immigration debates 330Markus Ojala24 Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time:people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea 344Cecilia Cannon and Shaminda KanapathiPART VI DIGITAL MIGRATION FUTURES25 Technological transformations in migration processes: spatiality,temporality and agency 361Huub Dijstelbloem26 Migration forecasting using new technology and methods 376Arkadiusz Wiśniowski27 Ahead of the policy curve: migrants harnessing tech to survive 393Emre Eren Korkmaz28 Migration, mobility and digital technology in a post-COVID-19 world:initial reflections on transformations underway 406Marie McAuliffe and Jenna BlowerIndex 423