With COVID-19 disrupting travel, shutting borders, and redefining what is essential work, Pandemic Borders explores what international migration will look like after the pandemic, in this series titled #MigrantFutures
President Biden’s inauguration may have signalled new hope for immigrant families and immigration advocates in the US, but his plans to expand ‘smart border’ technologies should keep privacy watchdogs on alert.
While the Trump administration’s controversial anti-immigrant rhetoric may have resulted in only a few miles of new border wall over the last four years, the development and deployment of new facial recognition tools and tech-powered border security made far more progress.
