In the latest episode of our FAU CHREN Podcast “Human Rights Tracks“, we talk to Dr Eline Wærp about the increasing digitalisation of EU borders.
What this episode is about
How is digital technology reshaping migration governance? What are the implications for human rights, and how does this relate to what scholars describe as the “securitisation of mobility”? Dr Wærp guides us through these complex issues, exploring the intersection of technology, politics, and border governance and introducing the concept of “banal securitisation”.
About our podcast guest
Dr Wærp is a postdoctoral researcher at the FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN), focusing on the digitalisation of EU air border controls and its human rights implications. She has a PhD in migration studies from the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University, where she wrote her dissertation on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s (Frontex) production of a securitised border knowledge. Her research interests include irregularized migration, securitisation, and EU border controls. Through her research, she strives to have a positive societal impact by challenging dominating discourses and practices and questioning the taken-for-granted.
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