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Anything You Want, Sweetheart: Borders, Data, and the Business of Bordering
At a shooting range in rural Texas, I asked a drone vendor whether border control drones could be used on asylum seekers. 'Anything you want, sweetheart,' he replied. Between 2022 and 2024, I attended 6 border security expos in the US, Europe, and Turkey — events that brought together military and technology vendors from Elbit Systems to Anduril, Palantir, and IBM, all selling the same promise: that surveillance tools are neutral, and accountability lies only with the governments that wield them.
Read More →Beyond the Funding: The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship
The PETF Scholarship was much more than just funding. Here I share highlights of my journey as a 2021 Scholar, from application to completion.
Read More →Concrete and Code: West Bank Field Notes (2023)
Field notes from three weeks in the West Bank in 2023, examining how surveillance technologies shape movement, space, and daily life at one of the most heavily monitored borders in the world.
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