Humanitarian operations management (HOM) defines the broad domain that deals with the
management of crisis events and human suffering, and a plethora of research has …

Digital innovation and data practices are increasingly central to the humanitarian response
to recent refugee and migration crises. In this article, I introduce the concept of …

This essay revisits the notion of diaspora in connection with recent advancements in
communication technologies, which have led to the formation of 'digital diasporas'. The focus …

This paper critically examines the implications of 'self-sovereign identity'(SSI) for border
politics and migration management. SSI refers to user-controlled, decentralised forms of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have been introduced in humanitarian operations in
order to help with the significant challenges the sector is facing. This article focuses on …

How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? As the
numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster reach unprecedented …

Big Tech companies have recently led and financed projects that claim to use datafication
for the “social good.” This article explores what kind of social good it is that this sort of …

This article traces the travel of biometric data of Syrian refugees in Jordan through a hastily
evolving political economy characterized by a pervasive craving for the extraction, storage …

The promise of artificial intelligence has been originally to put technology at the service of
people utilizing powerful information processors and 'smart'algorithms to quickly perform …

Questions about how algorithms contribute to (in) security are under discussion across
international political sociology. Building upon and adding to these debates, our collective …