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Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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Author #TheWallsHaveEyes @thenewpress |#BorderTech ethnographies | @RefugeeLawLab + @Migration_Tech Monitor | Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    May 9, 2024
    In a breaking world, books are a labour of love. After 6 years, #TheWallsHaveEyes is (almost) here! It is a global story of border surveillance, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm. 📖May 21st thenewpress.com/books/walls-ha…
    Pile of notes and papers from research across different borders, with a copy of a book lying on top called The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Petra Molnar, The New Press
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Jan 11, 2023
    #ArtificialBorders 📚 has a home with @thenewpress! A real dream come true and a reflection of the work of so many people🙏 Coming in 2024! petramolnar.com
    Book cover for "Artificial Borders: AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments" by Petra Molnar showing policing equipment and graffiti stating "movement of freedom" by Kenya-Jade Pinto
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Oct 27, 2021
    🚨📚#ArtificialBorders: AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments I'm writing my first book! In the works for years, I slowly unravel global threads connecting violent border regimes, Big Tech, and real harms experienced by people on the move at the sharp edges📸@kenyajade
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    May 1, 2024
    Tear gas, armed force, arrests. Just over a year ago, I was in the Occupied West Bank. Now as a legal observer I’m seeing the same in NYC. Yet still so much silence from senior colleagues esp tenured faculty with job security - as well as the critical tech community? Shame!
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Nov 8, 2021
    Borders kill. Near the Turkish border in northern Greece, outside a small village lies a cemetery of mostly unmarked graves. A resting place for those who died making the journey to Europe. Most recent tombstone from Feb ‘21 honours a young Afghan woman. Three open graves await
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Jan 31, 2022
    The absurdity of border walls. 📸 El Camino Del Diablo/Devil’s Highway, Arizona, USA
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Sep 9, 2022
    Two years ago today, the Moria refugee camp burned to the ground. What has been happening since at Europe’s borders?🧵
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    May 21, 2024
    2018: Start the work 2021: Find Joy (the dog) 2024: #TheWallsHaveEyes 📖 is here! 🙏 This book is a true reflection of the deep power of community. Thank you for making my dreams come true!
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Nov 9, 2020
    Today we launch Technological Testing Grounds, our new report with @edri! As part of my @mozilla fellowship and supplementing a report by the @UN SR on Discrimination, this investigation highlights the real impacts of #BorderTech on people's lives /1
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    Nov 9, 2020
    Our new report Technological Testing Grounds is out! Based on interviews with over 40 refugees and people on the move, @mozilla fellow @_PMolnar explores the human rights impacts and systemic harms of #BorderTech experiments Read it here: frama.link/BorderTech
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Jul 22, 2020
    This is a tremendous victory years in the making! Canada’s Federal Court just ruled the US is NOT safe for #refugees. Babies in cages, women not being able to claim protection for VAW, deaths in detention - just some of the violent examples of the US migration regime.
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    Jul 22, 2020
    Incredible victory today for refugees! Federal Court: the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States violates section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Congratulations to @AmnestyToronto @ccrweb @CCC_CCE and the Applicants!
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Nov 27, 2021
    On the Greek island of #Kos, another “Closed Controlled Access Centre” is about to open. Earlier today, a similar new refugee camp opened on Leros island. They are part of a series of new camps on the Aegean Islands, with capacity to hold thousands, funded by the EU.🧵
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Apr 26, 2024
    This term, I had the chance to design and teach a new course on #AI and #migration at @OsgoodeNews @YorkUniversity. With an amazing group of law students we explored surveillance, data colonialism, and resistance, bringing it back to the people affected. For those interested🧵
    Border wall at the US/Mexico Border
    James Holeman with Battalion Search and Rescue at a memorial site in Arizona
    AI Surveillance Tower in Arizona
    Wall in the Occupied West Bank
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    Apr 16, 2020
    Never in a million years could I have imagined our work would be in @nytimes, but here we are: nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opi… @DNBSevilla @edri @mozilla Like so many, I too have crossed borders. Studying responses to migration gives us a great lens on how power works in our world ⬇️
    Migrants and refugees at a makeshift camp next to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos this month.
    Opinion | Surveillance Won’t Stop the Coronavirus (Published 2020)
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    Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)
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    May 7, 2019
    Proud to stand with other lawyers and doctors (and dogs!) to protest #LegalAidCuts for refugees and immigrants. Getting banned from the Ontario Legislature was so worth it! #SaveLegalAid #accesstojustice