Topic of the thesis: How do refugees engage with digital technologies in navigating integration?

Abstract: Integration is a key feature at the centre of European migration discourse; the goal is to achieve assimilation of the migrant, irrespective of their background, into their new society. Government and civil society institutions have traditionally been responsible for facilitating the integration of refugees, however, after the 2015 refugee crisis a new crop of services and service providers emerged. The tech industry has developed an ever increasing and ever changing array of social and technological interventions to assist refugees, through ‘Techfugees’; consisting of hackathons and coding events around the world. These tech innovations are aimed at: helping migrants navigate local services; getting them into work or training; and providing access to community-based housing and services. Technology is popular for being able to innovate solutions to societal problems, however, these solutions can also entrench inequalities by the creation of tools that can be used by only highly educated and digitally proficient This project seeks to fill a gap in the literature on refugees’ use of innovative technological solutions; focusing on post migration experiences of refugees, as well as different refugee user groups.

Research interests: Human-Technology Interaction – Digitisation/Digitalisation Migration and Integration – Education – Vulnerable populations.

Graduated from: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana (BA) – Aarhus University, Denmark (MA).

Degrees obtained: BA in Sociology and Social Work – MA in Anthropology of Education and Globalization.

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