Publications, Research & Reports

The article examines how undocumented Venezuelan migrants traveling through Central America toward the United States‑Mexico border navigate a landscape of “information precarity” and confront disinformation.

This report delivers a human‑rights‑centred, comparative audit of how automated recommendation‑making tools are shaping immigration decisions in three major democracies, exposing systemic bias, opacity, and accountability deficits, and offering a concrete roadmap—particularly for the UK—to embed ethical safeguards, transparency, and robust oversight into any future deployment of such tools.

This article examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI, in the management of international migration. It explores the legal and practical considerations for responsible AI implementation by governments, focusing on transparency, regulatory frameworks, and the protection of migrants’ rights.

The research investigates how personal values influence the discourse on immigration, specifically regarding the closure of Roxham Road, an irregular border crossing between the United States and Canada. The study examines how the values of conservation (resistance to change) and self-transcendence (concern for others) are expressed in social media discussions, particularly on Twitter, and how these expressions correlate with sentiments about asylum seekers.

This research is about the use of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) in migration management. It explores how these technologies are being implemented and employed by state and non-state actors to manage migration processes, the types of technologies being used, their purposes, and the implications for migrants' rights, particularly privacy.

Technology is becoming a bigger part of how countries and organizations manage migration. This paper offers an early review of academic and gray literature on the use of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) in migration management processes. The primary focus of this review is literature that discusses migration management technologies - ADTs used by institutional actors (governments, NGOs, transnational institutions).

This report examines outcomes in Canadian immigration decisions and in the Canadian immigration system that may systematically and unjustifiably disadvantage certain populations based on characteristics such as race and country of origin.

This article argues that AI will only benefit refugees if it does not replicate the problems of the current system.

This report offers the beginning of a systemic analysis of migration management technologies, foregrounding the experiences of people on the move who are interacting with and thinking about surveillance, biometrics, and automated decision-making during the course of their migration journeys.

The question of how ICT can be deployed for refugees’ integration is difficult one to answer. This panel looked at how the knowledge accumulated by the IS community can be leveraged to design targeted technological solutions to tackle this crisis and avoid the potential risks associated with it.

This report identifies, documents and assesses the many ways that the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been affecting migration, borders, immigrant populations, and Canada’s immigration and settlement system between March, 2020 and June, 2020.

Since 2014, millions of refugees and migrants have arrived at the borders of Europe. This article argues that, in making their way to safe spaces, refugees rely not only on a physical but increasingly also digital infrastructure of movement.

This study proposes a cooperative strategy with the aim of sustaining a coherent border-migration compact between Canada and the United States.

While empirical studies find that border and interior enforcement serve as deterrents to illegal immigration, immigration enforcement is costly and carries unintended consequences, such as a decrease in circular migration, an increase in smuggling, and higher prevalence of off-the-books employment and use of fraudulent and falsified documents.