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Mass migration presents a problem to democracy in a number of methods. Chief amongst them is that anti-immigrant sentiment usually performs a serious position in the advance of intolerant and anti-democratic politics. We have seen this play out in the United States, the place President-elect Donald Trump has promised a dramatic crackdown on immigration and the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands.
However the scale of at present’s migration could also be dwarfed by what’s to come back. How has the motion of individuals affected the politics driving the growth of surveillance, biometrics, massive information and synthetic intelligence applied sciences? And the way do these applied sciences employed at borders and in governments themselves drive coverage and alter the manner we take into consideration the motion of individuals?
At this time’s visitor has spent years touring the world to check how expertise is being deployed in border areas and battle zones, and she or he’s written a guide about it. Petra Molnar is a lawyer and an anthropologist and the creator of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
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