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Kinan Alajak

@kinanalajak.bsky.social

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Syrian-Dutch researcher of #Technology, #Borders & #JustTransition | PhD Candidate at Utrecht University & HU University of Applied Sciences | Research Fellow at DeZIM-Institut | he/they

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Kinan Alajak @kinanalajak.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 New #OpenAccess in Public Management Review

“When data doubles narrate asylum: the agency of government oﬃcials and asylum applicants in datafied asylum procedures”

Together w/ #RianneDekker, @koenleurs.bsky.social, #DjamilaSchans & @albertalisalah.bsky.social

Link doi.org/10.1080/1471...

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Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social · Aug 4

“Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, published #OpenAccess in JEMS:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social

@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker

Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box

Digital technologies have often been criticised due to their tendency to operate as ‘black boxes’, owing to their complexity and opacity, which pose challenges to understanding their inner mechanis...

www.tandfonline.com

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Kinan Alajak @kinanalajak.bsky.social · Jul 17

Before the holidays, don’t miss The Arena: a bold podcast on student #protest, academic #freedom, and the power (and pressure) of #universities today

Now on Spotify from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social faculty of #Humanities & by the amazing director and host Isa Zoetbrood

The ARENA - Episode 1: That first domino

Utrecht University · Episode

open.spotify.com

Kinan Alajak @kinanalajak.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨 Publication Alert

Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Encountering the digital border: #smartphone screening in the #Dutch #asylum procedure"
our work with @koenleurs.bsky.social, @kinanalajak.bsky.social, #RianneDekker, now #OpenAccess in J. Ethnic and Migration Studies

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬ #COMMIT

Encountering the digital border: smartphone screening in the Dutch asylum procedure

Driven by digitisation and datafication, borders are multiplying across territories while becoming mobile, interconnected and black-boxed. In this article we consider how authorities repurpose the ...