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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
The paper examines the impact of digital infrastructures on the (re)production of a complex set of data practices intertwined with social, economic, and political power dynamics, exploring the way migrant activism in Scandinavian countries resists the impact of strengthened digital borders.
Paper Abstract:
Over the last few years, the already restrictive migration regimes have been reinforced by integrating digital infrastructures such as surveillance systems, data extraction mechanisms, and automated decision-making processes. The present paper examines the impact of digital infrastructures on the (re)production of a complex set of data practices intertwined with social, economic, and political power dynamics. The research explores specifically the way migrant activism in Scandinavian countries resists the effects of strengthened digital borders.
The article focuses on two main questions: firstly, to what extent civil society actors concerned with data extraction and privacy protection address the current state of migration governance as a sandbox for surveillance technologies (Molnar, 2021)? Secondly, how the traditional practices of support, rights advocacy, or protest of migrant solidarity activists have been affected by the current techno-borderscapes (Godin & Doná, 2021)?
The empirical contribution of the paper focuses on two specific regional phenomena: first, the way Scandinavian solidarity actors navigate the shifts in migration and surveillance policies balancing between cooperation and contentious politics (Kanellopolous et al., 2020). Second, onhow ¨postethnic¨ activism addresses migrant surveillance and anti-racism (Keskinen, 2022)?
The paper is structured as follows: first, a short literature review explores the (im)possibilities of activism in the landscape of migrant surveillance. Second, recent debates on data practices are examined from a social justice perspective, focusing on concepts like data justice (Dencik& Sanchez-Monedero, 2022) and data solidarity (Braun & Hummel, 2022). Finally, the results of the case studies of the two civil society actors mentioned above are presented.
Ethnography and the (geo-)politics of digital infrastructures
Session 2 Wednesday 24 July, 2024, -