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Digitalisation is reshaping migration and refugee governance in profound ways. Decisions on asylum, integration, and access to services are increasingly informed by algorithmic tools, AI-supported systems, and digital infrastructures. While these technologies promise fairness and efficiency, concerns have been raised about their potential to reinforce inequalities, limit agency, and create new forms of vulnerability. This panel will examine these ambivalent effects, with a particular focus on family networks, children, and other vulnerable groups. We welcome conceptual, empirical, comparative and methodological contributions from research and practice on: 1. Inclusion, agency and representation - Participation of refugees and migrants in the design, implementation or evaluation of digital governance tools - Power dynamics and decision-making structures within families 2. Ethical and data-related challenges: Algorithmic bias, transparency, informed consent, digital competence and ethical issues arising from research involving family units and interdependent decision-making. 3. Accountability and participatory evaluation: Oversight mechanisms, the co-production of knowledge and practices for strengthening agency when navigating restrictive institutional settings. We are particularly interested on how their participation can be strengthened while avoiding social desirability, pressure or institutional dependency and in insights on how refugees and migrants can contribute to the assessment and improvement of digital tools. The panel will explore how digital governance can foster democratic participation, ethical responsibility and genuine inclusion in migration and refugee policy. We look forward to receiving diverse and thought-provoking proposals and to building a strong interdisciplinary conversation on the future of digital migration governance.
| Title | Details |
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| Inclusion by Design? The Janus Face of Match’In 2.0: Family Complexity, Unequal Vulnerabilities, and Accountability | View Paper Details |
| Digital Family Practices of Migration and Refugeeness: Reflections on the Co-Production of Knowledge and Ethical Challenges | View Paper Details |
| Match'In - Pilot Project of an Algorithm-Based Decision Support System for Individualized Recommendations of Municipalities for the Integration of Refugees – A First Evaluation | View Paper Details |
| Approaches to Human Rights-Sensitive Design of Digital Applications and Their Implementation in the Context of Complex, Multi-Stage Admission Processes | View Paper Details |
| Implications and Potentials of Co-Designing Processes in Local Governement for the Inclusion of Immigrants in Rural Germany | View Paper Details |