Pin Lean will be part of the panel titled “The colonial legacies of border digitalization”.  This panel focuses on the racial hierarchies and power relations as produced by border technologies, EU migration politics and policies and surveillance apparatuses. Taking Europe’s colonial legacies as the premise for this conversation, this panel seeks to unravel the manner in which racialized vulnerabilities and marginalities are produced at the intersection of AI technologies, so-called migration management, and (border) surveillance. The goal is to shed light on the entanglements of (neo)colonial border regimes, digital technology, and larger geopolitical processes of Othering. 

In particular, due to Pin Lean’s expertise, questions that will further be considered include:

How are the digitalization of borders and the use of AI technologies in the migration and asylum context rooted in and a continuation of colonial practices of Othering? And, how do AI technologies in the context of migration and asylum reinforce and produce vulnerabilities along lines of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, education and class?