How is Technology Changing Migration and Refugee Law? - a podcast by The Verdict: Law & Society

Until recently, migrants and refugees relied on family networks and word of mouth to make critical decisions about destination countries, travel routes, and applications for legal status. However, in an internet era, when many refugees consider Wi-Fi more important than food and shelter, social media, phone, and other internet-based communications are critical to refugee and migrant decision-making.

In this lecture and panel discussion, Professor Katerina Linos argues that core compromises in the refugee regime, such as the sharp distinction between deserving refugees and undeserving economic migrations, or the much heavier burden placed on proximate safe countries as compared to distant safe countries, become entirely unsustainable in light of technological transformations.

Katerina Linos is Professor at Berkeley Law, and Co-Director of the Miller Center for Global Challenges and the Law. She was joined by Dr Sarah Fine (Department of Philosophy, King's College London), Dr Philippa Webb, (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London) and Professor John Tasioulas (Director of the YTL Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law).

Dr Octavio Ferraz (co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute, King's College London) introduced the talk.

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