Petra Molnar

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. Her latest book ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ is a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments, reflecting on 6 years of on-the-ground work.

Revolution begins with care: Confronting the polycrisis

We’re living through a series of interlinked disasters, confounded by the rise of surveillance. How do we fight back?

By Petra Molnar

/ 27 Feb 2026

Revolution begins with care: Confronting the polycrisis

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology

People-on-the-move met to discuss how tech is shaping movement, borders and power. This is what they think must happen

By Petra Molnar and Florian Schmitz

/ 6 Feb 2026

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology

Migration, AI and The Rise of the Machines

Petra Molnar on the border industrial complex

By Petra Molnar, Aman Sethi and In Solidarity Podcast

/ 10 Mar 2025

Migration, AI and The Rise of the Machines

‘How do we control Palestinians? We make them feel like we are everywhere’

Chilling new book shows how states like Israel control borders using inhumane, experimental surveillance technology

By Petra Molnar

/ 8 Jul 2024

‘How do we control Palestinians? We make them feel like we are everywhere’

Coronavírus: a tecnologia pode se tornar uma ferramenta de opressão e vigilância?

A tecnologia não é inerentemente democrática e suas implicações em direitos humanos são particularmente importantes a serem consideradas em contextos humanitários e de migração forçada. English Español

By Petra Molnar

/ 12 May 2020

Coronavírus: a tecnologia pode se tornar uma ferramenta de opressão e vigilância?

Coronavirus: ¿puede la tecnología convertirse en una herramienta de opresión y vigilancia?

La tecnología no es intrínsecamente democrática y sus repercusiones en los derechos humanos son particularmente importantes de considerar en contextos humanitarios y de migración forzada. English Português

By Petra Molnar

/ 8 May 2020

Coronavirus: ¿puede la tecnología convertirse en una herramienta de opresión y vigilancia?

COVID-19: can technology become a tool of oppression and surveillance?

Technology is not inherently democratic and its human rights impacts are particularly important to consider in humanitarian and forced migration contexts.

By Petra Molnar

/ 1 May 2020

COVID-19: can technology become a tool of oppression and surveillance?