With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we actively interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.

Our mission is to monitor surveillance technologies, automation, and the use of Artificial Intelligence to screen, track, and make decisions about people on the move. The Monitor’s aim is to highlight the far reaching impacts that these procedures and policies have on people’s rights and lives and to support communities doing work on these issues.

Our THIRD annual FELLOWSHIP FOR PEOPLE-ON-THE-MOVE is OPEN for applications.

Learn more and submit your materials by 31 December 2024!

A monitor, archive, and platform for critical interrogation of migration and technology

The detention of migrants at the border in every single case. The wrongful deportation of 7,000 foreign students accused of cheating on a language test. Invasive drone surveillance instead of maritime rescue.

What do these examples have in common? In every case, technological experimentation had serious consequences for people’s lives. We aim to shed light on their stories.

International community participation from the ground up

Migration & Technology Monitor (“The Monitor”) is an archive and a platform for sharing information provided directly by migrants, refugees, and people on the move.

Our emphasis is on creative, responsible and impactful ways of educating the public, and empowering advocates and public officials on the human rights implications of the situations documented by our team.

“We are black and border guards hate us. Their computers hate us too.”

-ADISSU, Living without immigration status

Twitter: @migration_tech