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Amin Parsa contributes to UN expert meeting on race, technology and international borders

The UN headquarters in Geneva

In mid-June, Amin Parsa, postdoctoral fellow at the Sociology of Law Department, participated in the “Expert Workshop on Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies”. Parsa presented parts of his research on the use and development of digital technologies of mobility monitoring within the context of the European border control. He also provided commentary on the ways in which advanced digital technologies of border control are producing, reproducing and maintaining racial hierarchies of mobility regime.

The event was organised by Professor Tendayi Achiume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as a precursor to a report on race, technology, and borders, scheduled for October 2020. As UN Special Rapporteur, she investigates alleged violations of international human rights law and communicates with responsible nation states on behalf of the UN.

Amin Parsas presentation and written contribution will be published with the Special Rapporteur’s report in October.

 

Read more about Amin Parsa’s research on his personal page.

Amin Parsa. Photo: Private

Amin Parsa holds a doctoral degree in Public International Law from Lund University. His doctoral dissertation deals with the legal consequences of the use of technologies of target visualisation by US military in its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently a Vetenskapsrådet funded International Post-doc fellow the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University and the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law at Vrije University in Amsterdam.