Vasiliki Makrygianni presented the talk "Blurring Borderlines: Emancipatory Digital Practices on the Move"
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Event location: Norrköping, Sweden
On January 30–31, 2025, Vasiliki Makrygianni participated in a workshop of the research project Calculating Migration: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Algorithmic Governance and Redistribution Keys, organized by Linköping University in Sweden and the European University Viadrina. The workshop, Revising Digitalization in Migration, drew on interdisciplinary convergences between migration studies and science and technology studies. The event was hosted bythe Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Linköping University’s Norrköping campus.
Vasiliki’s presentation, Blurring Borderlines: Emancipatory Digital Practices on the Move, was part of a session on ‘Resistance and Emancipatory Practices—Migrants, Refugees, and Civil Society Organizations in Solidarity. Case Studies from Sweden and Greece.’ In her talk she explored the interplay between contemporary migration and digital technologies, drawing on both previous studies and her preliminary fieldwork in Greece, conducted as part of TheGame in 2024. She discussed the tension between sovereignty practices—particularly in relation to technological advancements and infrastructure—and emerging forms of digital resistance drawing from STS studies, Geography and Migration Studies.