The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus: Precarious Migrants, Migration Regimes and Digital Technologies

This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints imposed by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control.

Mihaela Nedelcu is Titular Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Since her pioneering book Le migrant online (2009), she has developed her expertise in digital migration studies, focusing on transnational families, e-diasporas and e-borders.

Ibrahim Soysüren is a senior researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He has conducted comparative research on the deportation of foreigners and the use of biometric databases and has published extensively on these topics as well as on migration processes.