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Petra Molnar

6 months

In a breaking world, books are a labour of love. After 6 years, #TheWallsHaveEyes is (almost) here! It is a global story of border surveillance, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm. 📖May 21st

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2 years

#ArtificialBorders 📚 has a home with @thenewpress ! A real dream come true and a reflection of the work of so many people🙏 Coming in 2024!

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🚨📚 #ArtificialBorders : AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments I'm writing my first book! In the works for years, I slowly unravel global threads connecting violent border regimes, Big Tech, and real harms experienced by people on the move at the sharp edges📸 @kenyajade

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Tear gas, armed force, arrests. Just over a year ago, I was in the Occupied West Bank. Now as a legal observer I’m seeing the same in NYC. Yet still so much silence from senior colleagues esp tenured faculty with job security - as well as the critical tech community? Shame!

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Borders kill. Near the Turkish border in northern Greece, outside a small village lies a cemetery of mostly unmarked graves. A resting place for those who died making the journey to Europe. Most recent tombstone from Feb ‘21 honours a young Afghan woman. Three open graves await

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The absurdity of border walls. 📸 El Camino Del Diablo/Devil’s Highway, Arizona, USA

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2 years

Two years ago today, the Moria refugee camp burned to the ground. What has been happening since at Europe’s borders?🧵

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5 months

2018: Start the work 2021: Find Joy (the dog) 2024: #TheWallsHaveEyes 📖 is here! 🙏 This book is a true reflection of the deep power of community. Thank you for making my dreams come true!

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4 years

Today we launch Technological Testing Grounds, our new report with @edri ! As part of my @mozilla fellowship and supplementing a report by the @UN SR on Discrimination, this investigation highlights the real impacts of #BorderTech on people's lives /1

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Our new report Technological Testing Grounds is out! Based on interviews with over 40 refugees and people on the move, @mozilla fellow @_PMolnar explores the human rights impacts and systemic harms of #BorderTech experiments Read it here:

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4 years

This is a tremendous victory years in the making! Canada’s Federal Court just ruled the US is NOT safe for #refugees . Babies in cages, women not being able to claim protection for VAW, deaths in detention - just some of the violent examples of the US migration regime.

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@CARLadvocates

4 years

Incredible victory today for refugees! Federal Court: the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States violates section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Congratulations to @AmnestyToronto @ccrweb @CCC_CCE and the Applicants!

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3 years

On the Greek island of #Kos , another “Closed Controlled Access Centre” is about to open. Earlier today, a similar new refugee camp opened on Leros island. They are part of a series of new camps on the Aegean Islands, with capacity to hold thousands, funded by the EU.🧵

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This term, I had the chance to design and teach a new course on #AI and #migration at @OsgoodeNews @YorkUniversity . With an amazing group of law students we explored surveillance, data colonialism, and resistance, bringing it back to the people affected. For those interested🧵

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5 years

Never in a million years could I have imagined our work would be in @nytimes , but here we are: @DNBSevilla @edri @mozilla Like so many, I too have crossed borders. Studying responses to migration gives us a great lens on how power works in our world ⬇️

Opinion | Surveillance Won’t Stop the Coronavirus (Published 2020)

Access to adequate health care, including protective equipment and sufficient testing, will do more good than another hackathon.

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Proud to stand with other lawyers and doctors (and dogs!) to protest #LegalAidCuts for refugees and immigrants. Getting banned from the Ontario Legislature was so worth it! #SaveLegalAid #accesstojustice

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6 years

It’s finally here! 🤖✈️👩🏽‍⚖️ NEW REPORT by @IHRP_UofT and @citizenlab with @lex_is : “Bots at the Gate: a Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System.” #BotsAtTheGate

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2 years

🚨 @Europarl_EN has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to regulate harmful #BorderTech . To learn more, read our @euobs op-ed with @CaterinaRodelli @accessnow , @sarahchander @edri + Alyna Smith @PICUM_post . Today we also launch #ProtectNotSurveil 🧵 1/3

Racist algorithms and AI can't determine EU migration policy

Artificial Intelligence in migration is increasingly used to make predictions, assessments, and evaluations based on racist assumptions it is programmed with. But with upcoming AI Act, the EU has a...

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3 years

“Not a lot of difference between this camp and a prison.” A’adil*, a 25 year old from Palestine. There are more walls going up every day. Today, inside the sprawling new refugee camp on Samos, we saw layers of barbed wire, fingerprinting, and #BorderTech , funded by the EU🧵

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4 years

Thank you, @SeanRehaag @CRSYorkU @OsgoodeNews for such a warm welcome! I’m so excited to join the @RefugeeLawLab and explore the impacts of technology on migration! While I’m sad to leave @IHRP_UofT @UTLaw I hope we will have many opportunities to collaborate 🤖 🌍 👩🏽‍⚖️

Sean Rehaag

@SeanRehaag

4 years

Delighted that @_PMolnar is joining the @RefugeeLawLab as Associate Director. Excited to work with her & looking forward to seeing where she takes the Lab. On behalf of @YorkUnivesrity , @CRSYorkU & @OsgoodeNews : welcome Petra!

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3 years

WOW!💕Thank you all so much for the huge support! It means a lot, esp when burnout, impostor syndrome, and mental health lows couple up with difficult geopolitical times and the daily trauma that the people we work with experience. Now I really just have to finish the book!🙏

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@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨📚 #ArtificialBorders : AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments I'm writing my first book! In the works for years, I slowly unravel global threads connecting violent border regimes, Big Tech, and real harms experienced by people on the move at the sharp edges📸 @kenyajade

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2 years

🚨 The #AIAct must protect people on the move. Along with Dr. Niovi Vavoula, we brought together 26 international experts on migration and call on @Europarl_EN to: ✅ban harmful AI in migration ✅expand the "high risk" category ✅apply safeguards to EU migration databases 🧵

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🚨 Must read: Canada tested facial recognition tech on millions of travellers to identify people for DEPORTATION. Without public knowledge or oversight - the largest government deployment of tech, as @tom_cardoso and @Colinfreeze report for @globeandmail :

Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2016

Six-month initiative to identify potential deportees used technology that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years

www.theglobeandmail.com

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3 years

Barbed wires, cameras, and #BorderTech . These are Europe’s choices at its external borders. 📸 From the opening of the newest “closed controlled access centre” refugee camp on Kos Island, Greece on 27.11.2021🧵

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4 years

It’s hard to put into words what the organized visit to #Moria2 / #Mavrouvoni on #Lesvos was just like. Police everywhere, horrible conditions, a sad spectacle all around. Dirty standing water, garbage for days, barbed wire and fencing on the ground where children play🧵

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4 years

COVID, chaos, and containment: @kenyajade and I are in #Lesbos where #Moria camp burned down. Thousands of people have been warehoused in a windswept new camp. #Refugeesgr Stay tuned for our longterm project investigating technology and migration but see👇for people to follow:

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5 months

Can’t believe that #TheWallsHaveEyes is at @strandbookstore on Broadway - and in one of their central feature sections! Definitely cried when speaking to their kind store staff 😂 😭

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3 years

🚨The new “closed controlled access centre” of Samos, a securitized and secluded refugee camp is officially open. According to official press conference “Samos is back to normality.” Normality which includes surveillance and geographic segregation of people seeking protection 🧵

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2 years

A dream come true! #ArtificialBorders 📚 is now represented by @TransLitAgency ’s amazing @oczoroadnama + @benglishhh ! These two breathed new life, energy, and support into a project that’s been in the works since 2018. We can’t wait to share the book with you soon! ⬇️

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@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨📚 #ArtificialBorders : AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments I'm writing my first book! In the works for years, I slowly unravel global threads connecting violent border regimes, Big Tech, and real harms experienced by people on the move at the sharp edges📸 @kenyajade

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I had the privilege of visiting the West Bank earlier this year, to see first-hand how technological oppression operates. Thank you @TNInstitute for the space to reflect on violent technologies and border regimes in these dark times.

“All Roads Lead to Jerusalem” | Transnational Institute

Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation's impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landsca...

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2 years

🚨 Today, @Border_Violence releases the Black Book of Pushbacks: ⚫️3,176 pages ⚫️1,635 testimonies impacting over 24,990 persons ⚫️16 countries Read it here: 🧵 1/3

Black book of pushbacks 2022

The Left in the European Parliament presents the Black Book of pushbacks: over 3,000 pages mapping the systematic violence unfolding at Europe’s borders.

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4 years

🚨 #BorderTech in Greece: Back on Lesvos before EU’s @YlvaJohansson ’s visit tomorrow to discuss building of a new camp which will supposedly include various #surveillance tech and motion detection algorithms (see: @EuropeMustAct ) The tale of three camps🧵

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3 years

All over the world, people die crossing borders everyday. I was in the Arizona desert frontier during the announcement of the latest violent #BorderTech : military-grade ‘robo dogs.’ Thanks @memomiller and The Border Chronicle 🦂for the opportunity to share:

Robo Dogs and Refugees: The Future of the Global Border Industrial Complex

The future is here, and it’s a nightmare for migrants. Robo-dogs are joining the global arsenal of border enforcement technologies. The consequences will be deadly.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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@_PMolnar

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6 months

After 6 years of work across the world’s borders, the book is done! Thankful to the @metalabharvard and @BKCHarvard for the opportunity to preview the work 📖

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"As more people are displaced by war, economic instability, and a warming planet, more countries are turning to AI-driven technology to “manage” the influx." Join us TOMORROW at 5:30 PM for a discussion with @_PMolnar about her new book "The Walls Have Eyes."

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2 years

Near a landfill on Lesvos, a new refugee camp is nearly done. Built with EU money and part of a lucrative global Border Industrial Complex, it will be the 4th of 5 new prison-like refugee camps full of #BorderTech . 📸 @SchmitzFlorian_ What's the broader context? 🧵

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3 years

“Would you push back Mary and Joseph?” Pope Francis @Pontifex visits the Greek island of #Lesvos and the Mavrovouni refugee camp currently housing over 2000 people. Banners against pushbacks put up by @lnob2020 #LeaveNoOneBehind .

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🚨A new refugee camp opened yesterday on the Greek island of Samos. Billed as a state-of-the-art facility, authorities told us it’ll be a model for other countries. Yet the people we spoke with awaiting transfer there tomorrow don’t want to move to a closed camp🧵

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🚨 #BorderTech robot dogs to be deployed by US Customs and Border Patrol. Announced Feb 1,2022, the robot dogs will “lend a helping hand (or “paw”) with new technology that can assist with enhancing the capabilities of CBP personnel.” (via @ReeceJonesUH )

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3 years

Writing these days is hard. This chapter was no exception but thanks to @triandafyllidou @cercmigration @IMISCOE for making the process kinder. Check out the link below for #OpenAccess chapters including mine on #BorderTech and pandemics, based on our @edri @RefugeeLawLab report

CERC Migration

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3 years

Inspired by days in lockdown, Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception, edited by @triandafyllidou provides a collection of critical analysis on the pandemic’s wide-ranging impacts on migrants & societies across world regions.

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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

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3 years

🚨 The EU Parliament just published its study on the use of #AI at European Borders: While the paper recognizes some historical and systemic drivers of #BorderTech and points to risks of discrimination, profiling, and privacy, there are many gaps🧵1/7

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The Greek island of Kos is a bit of a forgotten place. Similar to Samos, it also hosts a remote detention centre and will be the site of a new highly securitized camp. On Kos, I met @amin_al_khatib from #Sweden , whose wife is detained inside - he asked me to share their story 🧵

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The many sides of #Lesvos , June 2021. Slowly stitching together the tapestry that makes up the complex ecosystem maintaining a violent border industrial complex, illegal pushbacks, surveillance, and technosolutionism at the expense of human dignity🧵

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When selected for secondary security screening as usual, a curious border guard in Amsterdam started leafing through #TheWallsHaveEyes in my suitcase. Maybe I should have left him a copy? (Maybe not though. He decided to swab every single copy… I guess the book is explosive!)

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2 years

🚨Canada's House of Commons releases Report on #FacialRecognition and #AI , incl. #BorderTech . While its recommendations could have gone further, great to see work of @anabrandusescu @Cyn_K @cancivlib @nccm + our @RefugeeLawLab represented. Read it here ➡️

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3 years

The violence explicitly practiced by EU’s migration machine is staggering, motivated by carceral logics and lucrative border industry. What do we have to tell policy makers who undermine years’-long work trying to highlight systemic harm if real world human stories aren’t enough?

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3 years

So many lighthouses for such deadly borders

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

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Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible.

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🚨Must read investigation by @LHreports @daniel_howden @Balkanizator @LudekStavinoha @BenjaminHolst into Palantir, a company with powerful mythology, shady deals at all levels of EU government, and predictive policing entanglements among many other issues:

Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe

Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying

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4 years

Such deep disappointment in @IHRP_UofT @UTLaw , a place I worked for three years. The treatment of @ValentinaAzarov is deplorable and must be held to account. Thanks to @SamerMuscati @InitialVW @theannasu and many others taking the lead on this over the last week!👇👇👇

Samer Muscati

@SamerMuscati

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. @UTLaw is where I went to school, met my spouse & worked for for many years as @IHRP_UofT director. The law school has been a huge part of my life. It's devastating to see what has has happened. But so much respect to faculty & alumni for speaking out.

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5 years

Honoured to be back with @IHRP_UofT @UTLaw as Interim Director. @SamerMuscati left huge shoes to fill and we will miss you very much! Please follow the amazing work of our researchers @InitialVW and @majorashley5 and stay tuned for many exciting updates!

IHRP

@IHRP_UofT

5 years

Meet our team! - Petra Molnar ( @_PMolnar ), Interim Clinic Director - Vincent Wong ( @InitialVW ), Research Associate - Ashley Major ( @majorashley5 ), Research Associate - Elsie Tellier ( @65PinkRoses ), Student and Communications Assistant

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3 years

🚨The latest manifestation of deterrence: Greece completes a 40km wall and #BorderTech surveillance system with Turkey to stop people from #Afghanistan reaching Europe, including a “high tech automated electronic monitoring system.” @BBCWorld

Greece finishes fence at Turkey border amid warnings of Afghan migrant surge

A 40km (25-mile) barrier is completed at the land border amid warnings of a surge of Afghan migrants.

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5 years

#AI lie detectors + #drones + #migration : Very excited to have the support of @mozilla to look into the far-reaching impacts of migration management technologies on human lives and human rights. I'll be partnering with @edri as this year's #MozillaFellow !

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@edri

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We are super excited to announce Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar joining us to work on AI & discrimination. Read more about the project: @_PMolnar #MozillaFellow #EDRi @mozilla

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🚨 Nov 10, join Tendayi Achiume, @UN SR on Discrimination to discuss her upcoming report on #BorderTech and the launch of our @migration_tech Monitor! I get to moderate the amazing conversation with @LHreports @privacyint @Homo_Digitalis_ + @kenyajade 👉

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🚨 #BorderTech made in Britain:“Among the border security toys for sale are giant inflatable airships for surveilling people crossing borders… [and]databases that use machine learning to analyse…“hazards and risks.” Great piece @LucyMayblin @openDemocracy

The UK government is looking to profit from closing borders to asylum seekers

As the UK government pushes its Borders Bill through Parliament, it also makes a sales pitch to other states wanting to limit migration

www.opendemocracy.net

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A violent #BorderTech fever dream at the US/Mexico border: $26 million startup pitch for drones that tase people on the move crossing the desert.

Mijente 🐜🐜🐜

@ConMijente

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CONTENT WARNING. THIS VIDEO IS HORRIFIC. This Peter Thiel supported startup founder's pitch was drones that tase migrants. He got $26m from VCs such as @sama . Forbes included him on their "30 under 30" for social impact. Absolutely disgusting. via @theintercept #NoTechForICE

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Thanks for the feature @opiniojuris - While conversations around the #ethics of #AI are taking place, ethics do not go far enough, especially in migration technology. We need a sharper focus on oversight mechanisms grounded in fundamental human rights!

Opinio Juris

@opiniojuris

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Emerging Voices: Immigration, Iris-Scanning and iBorderCTRL–The Human Rights Impacts of Technological Experiments in Migration

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Europe has been actively sharpening its borders. New high-tech camps have sprung up on Greek Islands, financed by the EU and controlled via a vast #BorderTech surveillance system. 📖 @katymfallon @lydiaemman 🧵

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“They are people like us, and we do not want people freezing to death on our borders. Mothers, children, babies. We appeal for help.” Activists hold a press conference in a forest close to the #Poland / #Belarus border and appeal for humanitarian access for people stranded there.

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Excellent news! Great work by the ever-amazing @sarahchander @ellajakubowska1 @edri and 39 other organizations pushing for this ban on biometric mass surveillance in the EU:

Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon

@echo_pbreyer

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🇬🇧 Historical moment: EU Parliament calls for a full ban of dystopian #BiometricMassSurveillance and #FaceSurveillance in Europe! @brandobenifei @DeirdreCluneMEP @svenja_hahn @KosmaZlotowski and @Konecna_K : Implement the ban now! #ReclaimYourFace

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“Migration is a topic that is dividing people and uniting people” - Helena, a medical volunteer. From the Ukrainian border in 🇭🇺 🇸🇰 🇵🇱 with @f_grillmeier and @katymfallon 🧵

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Borders kill. If you read one thing today, make it this incredible investigation by @katymfallon @guardian and colleagues. Sidy Keita 36, from the Ivory Coast & Didier Martial Kouamou Nana, 33 from Cameroon were killed when thrown overboard off the Greek island of Samos 👇👇👇

Katy Fallon

@katymfallon

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Over 6 months w/ @LHreports @derspiegel @Mediapart & @guardian - we looked into events over some days last Sept on Greek island of Samos, where two asylum seekers had set foot & later found dead on shores & waters near the Turkish coast. What happened?

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“Places like #Greece , ‘Europe’s Shield,’ act as testing grounds for new technologies and #surveillance mechanisms.” @kenyajade and I visited #Moria to document the building of a new camp in light of EU’s new #MigrationPact : @EURACTIV

Surveillance on the seas: Europe’s new Migration Pact

Instead of coming up with a meaningful plan, the EU’s new migration pact explicitly doubles down on containment and border security and opens the door to increasingly more draconian tools of survei...

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The tale of three camps: for @EURACTIV I wrote about the EU’s sandbox for surveillance technologies in Greece during another visit to #Lesvos this week. The conditions are appalling yet the violent migration management machine keeps churning.

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❗️Police has been contacted, UNHCR has been informed, a court order from @ECHR_CEDH and Greek Prosecutor issued, we’ve called everyone from Athens to the Evros border and back and still there are sick children at risk of being pushed back 👇👇👇

Giorgos Christides

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❗"Please help. The children will die here." Got this message & a video of crying, sick children this morning. Equal measure heartbreaking & infuriating. @hellenicpolice still has not assisted these asylum seekers on Evros islet despite orders by @ECHR_CEDH & Greek prosecutor 1/

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“This place is like a wound in the landscape.” On the Greek island of Lesvos, it’s been over a year now since the fire destroyed the old Moria camp, displacing thousands. Every time I visit, I take a walk through its rolling olive groves and crumbled remnants.🧵

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🚨 Pushbacks are always personal. Great thread by @g_christides on a joint @derspiegel investigation with @lydiaemman supported by @JosoorNet after we learned that children were pushed back to Turkey. One boy made it, the other didn't. This story will stay with me my whole life.

Giorgos Christides

@g_christides

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There’s a sad, personal experience involved in our latest @derspiegel wide-ranging investigation about #pushbacks in Europe. One involving tormented children, overwhelmed aid actors and illegal police actions 1/👇

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I have been quiet on here lately, trying to make sense of years of work comparing technologically facilitated violence at borders. One experience sits viscerally with me every day. How many more people will die? 🧵

Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

Borders kill. Near the Turkish border in northern Greece, outside a small village lies a cemetery of mostly unmarked graves. A resting place for those who died making the journey to Europe. Most recent tombstone from Feb ‘21 honours a young Afghan woman. Three open graves await

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3 years

🚨 #BorderTech and #AIAct : @POLITICOEurope just leaked the draft AI Act report by the Civil Liberties & Internal Markets Committees of the EU Parliament. Tellingly, the Act does not cover the harms of technologies used in migration and at borders. 📸 high-tech refugee camp on Kos

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

Walls are going up all over the world and borders are sharpening. @kenyajade and I just returned from the #Poland / #Belarus border and it's difficult to put into words what we saw while following the great @katymfallon @lydiaemman and @HaigesVincent : 🧵

In Pictures: Refugee crisis at Polish-Belarusian border

Bleak images show the reality thousands are facing on the EU’s eastern border as a humanitarian disaster looms.

www.aljazeera.com

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨Great coverage by @AJEnglish with @BarbaraGSerra on the use of violent #BorderTech and the creation of a 'digital fortress' through the use of sound cannons, surveillance technologies, and increasing automation. Thanks for the @RefugeeLawLab on!

New Border Tech: Interview with Petra Molnar

In this Al Jazeera interview, Dr. Petra Molnar, Associate Director at the CRS-hosted Refugee Law Lab, discusses the increasing deployment of new surveillance...

www.youtube.com

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

📚 #ArtificialBorders chronicles conversations that connect EU frontiers with refugee camps in East Africa with the US-Mexico corridors. The book centers experiences of people interacting with high risk #BorderTech , exploring histories of border violence and tech experimentation.

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@_PMolnar

3 years

“It’s intrusive, it’s scary and I think it’s the tip of the iceberg.” @Malichudis speaks to @katymfallon about being investigated by the Greek National Intelligence Service and the degradation of press freedom and human rights monitoring in Greece:

Press freedom in Greece under increased threat: Journalists, NGOs

Alleged surveillance of reporters, a law banning fake news, and bullying of a Dutch reporter fuel concerns.

www.aljazeera.com

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

5 months

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 🧵

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@_PMolnar

3 years

“My keys are still in my pocket.” Calvin*, a 26 yr old doctor from Nigeria has been studying in Ukraine for 6 yrs. He fled his apartment with just a backpack and his medical diploma stuffed inside. Calvin arrived in Hungary after a harrowing 3 day journey, unsure of what’s next

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

(For me, this is also deeply personal. My maternal grandmother lives an hour from the Ukrainian border. She’s scared. I don’t share personal things on Twitter because it’s not a place for nuance and complexity but she asked me to. Opre Roma, may we make brighter days ahead💙💚❤️)

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

6 years

After 3 years of hard work by Idil Atak and @jcsimeon , this unique book is here! It highlights different contexts - all showing that #migration is NOT a crime. My chapter is based on @IHRP_UofT and @ejaf research in #Turkey and #Jordan with @MayssAlZoubi and @EtafRoudan 📖

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

2 years

🚨Join us today at 1pm CET for a virtual @UN_HRC #UNHRC51 side event on the human rights impacts of #BorderTech with @UNHumanRights @HRBDTNews @Uni_of_Essex @RefugeeLawLab . Featuring @Nanjala1 @ImmDefense @osce_odihr . Link here: Want to learn more?🧵

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨 Last week, a group of us witnessed new #BorderTech on European frontiers in Greece. Surveillance and securitization are at the centre of EU's migration policy - and people like Aina are paying the price: "If we go there, we will go crazy." @EURACTIV 🧵

Surveillance is at the heart of the EU's migration control agenda

The EU's new model of refugee camps make liberal use of new technologies and modern methods of surveillance, writes Petra Molnar.

www.euractiv.com

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

The sun sets over Europe’s newest refugee camp on the Greek island of Kos.

Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

On the Greek island of #Kos , another “Closed Controlled Access Centre” is about to open. Earlier today, a similar new refugee camp opened on Leros island. They are part of a series of new camps on the Aegean Islands, with capacity to hold thousands, funded by the EU.🧵

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨 Excited to moderate this event on the 15th with @lydiaemman , @g_christides @derspiegel + @NatalieSGruber @JosoorNet . A particular #pushback story connects us all but we will also discuss broader trends, #BorderTech experiments and more. Also raising 💰for @JosoorNet - Join us!

RefugeeLawLab

@RefugeeLawLab

3 years

🚨Event Alert: Join us on Nov. 15th to discuss #BorderTech , #pushbacks , and the importance of collaborations. Panelists include RLL’s own @lydiaemman , @g_christides from @derspiegel and @NatalieSGruber @JosoorNet . Register here: More info below ⬇️ 🧵

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3 years

Near a salt lake filled with flamingoes, the sounds of cicadas, tavernas, and cattle bells are mixed with construction noise. The tourist destination of Kos hides a forgotten camp, holding over 300 people, breaking their phone cameras and normalizing detention on arrival. 1/8 🧵

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

Border walls vs #HumanRights

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

4 years

The court finds that the #STCA violates sec7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (right to life and liberty) due to the violent detention practices in the US. To read the full decision:

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

Clear message from the EU: "We are funding electronic #surveillance technology, patrol vehicles, equipment for border guards and the construction of border crossing-points, but also satellite imaging and critical infrastructure. All this is to support management of the border."

ECRE

@ecre

3 years

1/ 🇪🇺 is "working on a proposal for provisional emergency measures [on] asylum & return, based on Art 78(3)[TFEU]." This will "support MS to set up the right processes, to manage irregular arrivals in a swift & orderly way, in line w fundamental rights."

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨 #BorderTech experiments at #DEFEA2021 : 🇬🇷🇳🇱🇺🇸🇮🇹🇨🇿 various countries presented projects like ROBORDER (“autonomous swarms of heterogenous robots for Border Surveillance”) and #ARESIBO (“augmented reality enriched situation awareness for Border Security”):

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

5 years

“If you come, we will take your children.” Immigration detention destroys lives. It’s increasing across the world, with over 1270 sites ( @migradetention ). My brilliant collaborator @DrSJSilverman and I wrote a chapter for @routledgebooks based the community’s lived experiences.

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

4 years

Very excited to share our report with you next week, based on over 40 conversations with people on the move across Europe! Supplemented by @kenyajade ’s evocative photography highlighting the panopticon of #BorderTech

EDRi

@edri

4 years

2/2 “Treated like a piece of meat without a life, just fingerprints and eye scans.” Stay tuned for our report by @mozilla fellow @_Pmolnar on interviews with people on the move, highlighting #BorderTech experiments and supplementing the @UN SR’s report on race, tech, and borders.

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

2 years

The @migration_tech is back! Check out our 🇬🇧🇸🇾🇫🇷🇪🇸 platform for interactive #BorderTech maps, resources and a fellowship announcement for people-on-the-move interested in exploring migration and tech 👇👇👇

Migration and Technology Monitor

@migration_tech

2 years

👋 The Migration and Technology Monitor is excited to announce our new platform: a living and growing archive of work at the intersection of migration and #BorderTech ! 👉 📸 @kenyajade and @_PMolnar 1. Want to learn more about the MTM?🧵(1/4)

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@_PMolnar

2 years

To learn more, follow and support @Border_Violence @NatalieSGruber @lk2015r @lydiaemman @g_christides @SchmitzFlorian_ @katymfallon @kenyajade @StatewatchEU @PICUM_post @edri @accessnow @f_grillmeier @we_are_solomon @migration_tech and others doing important work on these issues!

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

2 years

As people continue to seek safety and exercise their internationally protected right to asylum, what is playing out in Evros, one of the most violent borders between Greece-Turkey? Amazing analysis TODAY by @lydiaemman @SchmitzFlorian_ @dwnews 📖 🧵

Lydia Emmanouilidou

@lydiaemman

2 years

NEW: Greece & EU poured millions into an automated border surveillance system aimed, in part, at "saving lives" at Evros border. Our investigation suggests Greek authorities are failing to utilize the new system for search & rescue. W/ @SchmitzFlorian_

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

5 months

If you’d like a preview of #TheWallsHaveEyes 📖 here is an excerpt of the first chapter @jacobin

Jacobin

@jacobin

5 months

With new drones and robotic dogs on the prowl, the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border is becoming more and more of a techno-dystopia.

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

2 years

No water, yet the Samos camp has barbed wire, cameras, and #BorderTech surveillance…. 📸 Sept 2021

Samos Advocacy Collective

@AdvocacySamos

2 years

Day 7 without proper access to water! For the last week, camp residents in the #Samos CCAC only have 2 hours of running water. #refugeesgr

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@_PMolnar

3 years

A year ago today, the #Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos burned down. @kenyajade and I were there to witness the aftermath of the fire and over the course of the year, we've been documenting a troubling intersection between surveillance, migration and #BorderTech 🧵

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

5 years

Today I travelled 7000km to support my family during #COVID19 . These are scary times, but I saw so much kindness, empathy, and generosity from people- this will help us build a better world ☀️ 🌺✨ I also saw Greenland’s beautiful glaciers! What beauty and kindness did you see?

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

Migrant Justice = Climate Justice. The border industry and fossil fuel industry are deeply linked and perpetuate deep-rooted violence and marginalization. @ConMijente ’s Jacinta Gonzales reminds us that we need a collective movement for both climate and migrant justice 🌍

NowThis Impact

@nowthisimpact

3 years

‘Border violence profiteering is climate change profiteering’ — here’s why climate justice needs to include migrant communities

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@_PMolnar

3 years

“The only solution to the human crisis of displacement is to divest from policing, and the borders they protect, and invest in people instead.” @hebagowayed ’s great piece in @AJEnglish is a must read:

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

2 years

🚨 Wonderfully comprehensive report by @DeryaOzkul @AFARProject on #BorderTech in the EU! It’s hard to keep up with all the developments and this year-long study is an invaluable contribution to the conversation ⬇️

RefugeeStudiesCentre

@refugeestudies

2 years

A new mapping report by @DeryaOzkul and the @AFARProject shows how a multitude of new technologies are used in #migration and asylum governance in #Europe . Available here: #ArtificialIntelligence #Refugees

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

4 years

In advance of this week's release of EU's #AI regulation, I spoke with @lydiaemman @TheWorld about impacts on borders and people on the move and the need for an intersectional analysis. Also hear the fabulous @sarahchander @edri + @djleufer @accessnow ! ➡️

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

6 months

200 days. Solidarity rings hollow but none of us are free until we are all free 🍉

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

📚 #ArtificialBorders builds on work started with @lex_is , @edri , @mozilla , @refugeelawlab : , learning from migrant justice orgs + others like @harshawalia @ruha9 @safiyanoble @PopTechWorks who are illuminating power in a divided world! Coming in 2022 🙏

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Petra Molnar

@_PMolnar

3 years

🚨Event Alert: On Sept 28th learn about @TNInstitute ’s excellent report on EU arms exports fuelling displacement (and the expansion of an increasingly violent #BorderTech industry) - featuring @HNeumannMEP , @ecre , @andrewfeinstein , @Balkanizator , and @leone_hadavi . Don’t miss it!

Transnational Institute

@TNInstitute

3 years

🚨Our groundbreaking report Smoking Guns found that European arms exports contributed to the displacement of at least 1.1 million people. How can the EU better control arms exports and prevent further displacement? 👉Join the discussion:

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