The US is building a digital border infrastructure in neighboring countries that expands and deepens surveillance, while hiding state violence. The implications of this new infrastructure will be long-lasting and need to be integrated into strategies of resistance of migrant justice movements worldwide. Read “The Everywhere Border: Digital Migration Control Infrastructure in the Americas,” published in the Transnational Institute State of Power 2023 Digital Power
The migration control regime has expanded well beyond national territories and reinforces systems of control transnationally. This includes digital infrastructure that expands the power of policing and corporations at the cost of struggles for indigenous rights, workers’ rights, those organizing to combat the climate crisis, local fights for democracy, and more. The Lab is anchoring The Everywhere Border pilot project along with R3D (el Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, based in Mexico) and the Temple University Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology (iLIT) to build a transnational network to combat the harms of the digital infrastructure of migration control. This work includes building with human rights monitors and organizations in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
“The Everywhere Border: Digital Migration Control Infrastructure in the Americas,” by Mizue Aizeki, Laura Bingham, and Santiago Narváez.
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