Data Extraction, Refugees and Human Rights Violations
The threat of data extraction fails to respect the intersection of gender, sexuality, disability, and home state laws for refugees in asylum seeker applications.
What is Technosolutionism in Human Rights?
Technosolutionism is a way of grasping how the world prioritises and values engineered solutions to human problems. It is the theory that a machine, software program or mobile phone application can improve the way something is performed. Typically, this improvement is quantified through speed, as it matches the unsavoury need the Western world has for development
The Pitfalls of Technosolutionism and Refugee Rights
The rationale for the consideration of technosolutionism for refugees is the growing trend of digitalisation across the world and the numerous obstacles it could help solve. It profoundly changes the context and execution of humanitarian assistance and how refugees are processed (Stoll, 2017). However, the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (2020) outlines that two distinct groups are at considerable risk of cruelty from racial discrimination exacerbated by the use of new technologies: those in the criminal justice system and refugees.