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Right under the watchful eyes of a surveillance tower, a young man scales the wall and jumps down before our very eyes. With one quick look over his shoulder, he sprints into the quiet border neighbourhood of Nogales and disappears 🧵

Biden’s Executive Order to “close the border” is illegal under international refugee law. It will also not work. These policies will harm and kill people, and more surveillance will push people into deadly terrain. 📸 Nogales, May 2024 (see new “smart border” track up top)

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From sport stadiums to borders, automatic surveillance is increasing. Thanks to Nora Young with CBC Spark for having a great discussion with Kristen Thomasen and I! Episode here: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Mozilla’s yearly festival #mozfest is great for scheming and dreaming! Did you miss our Learning Circle with our Migration and Technology Monitor Fellows earlier this year? Check it out 📽️ youtu.be/NHoLYh6aWxE And follow Veronica Martinez Mona shtaya Wael Qarssifi | وائل قرصيفي 🇸🇾 Community Creativity for Development-(CC4D) and our fellows!

Thanks The Conversation Canada for the opportunity to reflect on writing #TheWallsHaveEyes This piece also refers to the work on border technologies of Todd Miller, BattalionSAR, Migration and Technology Monitor and specifically Veronica Martinez La Verdad

Sean Rehaag overviews outcomes in different types of refugee claims in Canada and critiques standard legal research methodologies in the refugee law field due to skews in publication practices. Read the article here: doi.org/10.25071/1920-…

Not quite sure what to say these days for #WorldRefugeeDay, other than that it is always real PEOPLE who are caught at the ever-sharpening edges of our borders. 📸- Cemetery of people who died making the dangerous crossing into Europe. Three open graves await. Evros, Greece

Join BooksAgainstBorders today at 7pm UK time for a conversation with Mona shtaya, Veronica Martinez and Grace Gichanga, our Migration and Technology Monitor fellows to talk about global struggles against border technologies and a little bit about my book #TheWallsHaveEyes ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/booksag…

With violence in Gaza intensifying while media coverage wains, thanks openDemocracy for publishing this excerpt of one of the chapters in #TheWallsHaveEyes - highlighting the work of Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 Breaking the Silence Ariel Koren and others. opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-s…

🚨 Our THIRD Fellowship is OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! Are you a person-on-the-move or currently living under occupation and interested in #bordertech? Learn more here and join our community! We look forward to hearing from you! Due by Dec 31st 2024 migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfellow…

Our THIRD!!! fellowship Migration and Technology Monitor is open for applications! We want to hear from you 👇👇👇 While we work in Arabic, French, Spanish, and English, contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable! More info below or on our website. Due Dec 31st 2024!

Proud to incubate the Migration and Technology Monitor monitor and its fellowship program for people-on-the-move. Do you have an idea for a project on #bordertech? Check out our fellowship and apply!

🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with Migration and Technology Monitor and RefugeeLawLab! Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024: migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfellow… A little about our project🧵

🚨On Dec 19th at 12pm EST, join RefugeeLawLab and The Citizen Lab for a strategy town hall on migrant justice surveillance in the Age of Trump 2.0. Spanish interpretation provided, let us know if you need other languages too! Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

A thread about the The Globe and Mail's wonky math about refugees (on the other place): bsky.app/profile/seanre…

Learn more about our Migration and Technology Monitor 2024/2025 Fellows! Mona shtaya does incredible work on digital repression in Palestine 🍉 RefugeeLawLab

Mathew Lubari is a successful is an advocate for digital literacy, repair activism, and sustainability, thoughtful leader in the repair movement, and Co-founder and Executive Director of Community Creativity for Development(CC4D) -

Our second Migration and Technology Monitor monitor fellow to be featured is Mathew Lubari Community Creativity for Development-(CC4D)! Catch his interview on the repair movement and community creativity with Vanessa Ferlaino: youtube.com/watch?v=-DiN2O… Podcast: iheart.com/podcast/269-th… Learn more about Mathew's work below!