With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.
Our mission is to monitor surveillance technologies, automation, and the use of Artificial Intelligence to screen, track, and make decisions about people on the move. Our aim is to highlight the far reaching impacts that these technologies have on people’s rights and lives and to support communities doing work on these issues.
How does the Monitor work?
Find out more in our new report!
Read articles from MTM Fellows on Open Democracy
Fake visas and complex databases: Tech’s role in exploiting migrant workers - Rajendra Paudel
A broken lifeline: Fixing humanitarian aid’s missing link - Mathew Lubari
Life beyond the stats: The refugees reclaiming their stories - Simon Drotti
Healing beyond borders: Digital mental health support for refugees - Aqila Abdelkarim Ali
Israeli border tech is not about security, it’s a tool for ethnic cleansing - Issa Amro
Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology - MTM Team
What else do we do?
A monitor, archive, and platform for critical interrogation of migration and technology
The detention of migrants at the border in every single case. The wrongful deportation of 7,000 foreign students accused of cheating on a language test. Invasive drone surveillance instead of maritime rescue.
What do these examples have in common? In every case, technological experimentation had serious consequences for people’s lives. We aim to shed light on their stories.
International community participation from the ground up
Migration & Technology Monitor is an archive, a platform, and a community for sharing information provided directly by people on the move.
Our emphasis is on creative, responsible and impactful ways of educating the public, and empowering advocates and public officials on the human rights implications of the situations documented by our team.
“We are black and border guards hate us. Their computers hate us too.”
-ADISSU, Living without immigration status