Panel Discussion: Affordances of Digital Tools in Shaping Migration Governance [EN]
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Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION
February 4, 2026
16:15 to 17:45
Hybrid: In person in room GD 102 & online
Chaired by Dr Marija Grujić
(DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION, Principal Investigator of the project “Gendering Asylum Infrastructures”)
Speakers:
Prof. Dr Britta Schneider (Chair Holder of Language Use and Migration, EUV)
Dr Jasper Van der Kist (Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp)
Dr Silvan Pollozek (European New School of Digital Studies, EUV)
Sifka Etlar Frederiksen, PhD Candidate (Leuphana University & DeZIM)
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 examine the colonial legacies embedded in AI technologies and how they reinforce power dynamics. We will highlight how these technologies intersect with broader issues of categorization, dehumanization, and exclusion, and shed light on their role in shaping social hierarchies.
Please register here: https://forms.europa-uni.de/form/provide/2166/?lang=en