On 20th May 2016 UNU-CS hosted an event on Migrant Technologies: (re)producing (un)freedoms in Macau. The one-day event brought together scholars, practitioners and activists to share learning and exchange ideas on the range of migrant technologies research being conducted across Asia and explore future collaborative approaches. The key theme addressed at the event was how the use of mobile technologies adds layers of freedoms and unfreedoms to migration. Speakers of the day include: Introduction and Welcome: Michael Best, Director of UNU-CS Opening Remarks: Tony Roberts, UNU-CS Morning Panel: Emerging themes in Migrant Technology research - Chair: Tony Roberts, UNU-CS - Jack Qiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Freedom, Slavery, and Working-Class ICTs: Learning from Chinese Migrant Workers in Foxconn - Nikos Dacanay, Chiang Mai University - ICT usage and how ethnic migrant women in northern Thailand indigenize/mediate human rights’ discourse of gender equality - Odalia Wong, Baptist University of Hong Kong - Transnational Mothers and Mobile Phone Usage: The Case of the Filipino Female Domestic Workers in Hong Kong - Discussant: Rhodora A. Abano, Centre for Migrant Advocacy in Philippines Afternoon Panel: New Migrant Technologies - Chair: Tony Roberts, UNU-CS - Kayoko Ueno, University of Tokushima - Facebook Activism and Networking among Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore - Jude Yew, National University of Singapore - Pemca: A proposed mobile platform for crowdsourcing the reporting and visualization of migrant worker injuries/deaths - Kakit Cheong, National University of Singapore - Kwento: Designing a family storytelling mobile application for domestic helpers - Discussant: Fish Ip, International Domestic Workers Federation

1. TONY ROBERTS
United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society
Migrant Technologies:
(re)producing (un)freedoms
Friday, 20th May, 2016
10:00am – 4:30pm
Nations University Institute on Computing and Society
for a free, one-day event where we bring together scholars, practitioners and
o panel discussions to share our understandings and research on information
and communication technology (ICT) use by migrants from Asia.
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MIGRANT TECHNOLOGIES:
(RE)PRODUCING (UN)FREEDOMS
New Migrant Technologies
Afternoon panel
Opening remarks

2. Migrant Technologies:
(re)producing (un)freedoms
Migrant Technologies:
(re)producing (un)freedoms
Friday, 20th May, 2016
10:00am – 4:30pm
United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society

3. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social
Affairs, Population Division (2015); World Bank (2014)
250
million
The number of international
Migrants reached 244 million
In 2014.
An increase of 71 million
Since 2000.
1/2
Trillion
US$

4. Source: Remittances Factbook 2016, 2014 data, World Bank Group, 2016.
Remittances to Developing Countries Versus
Other External Financing Flows (in US$ billions)
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
Remittances Foreign Direct
Investment
Official
Development Aid
Humanitarian Aid

5. AMARTYA SEN (1999)
Development…
“the process of removing unfreedoms and of
extending the substantive freedoms that
people have reason to value”

6. FREEDOMS UNFREEDOMS
MIGRATION BRINGS…

7. FREEDOMS UNFREEDOMS
TECHNOLOGY BRINGS…