https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12583?af=R Abstract

Crisis narratives surrounding Europe's 2015 migration influx fuelled demands for new ways of tracking, mapping and predicting human mobility. We explore how market opportunities for technology firms and data analytics start"?ups created by the EU's Global Approach to Migration led to solutionistic approaches to compiling and analysing migration statistics. We show that initiatives such as the rebranding of existing platforms and services as migration prediction systems are consolidating policy conceptualisations of migration as risk. Despite the promise of greater granularity, this "big data approach" cannot offer greater certainty about who is on the move and why. Instead such approaches are ill"?suited to understanding the complex dynamics of migration and to offering protection to vulnerable people. The marketisation of migration statistics through big data offers a key case for advancing progressive approaches to both migration statistics and global data justice.

Resumen

Los relatos de crisis en torno a las corrientes migratorias hacia Europa del a??o 2015 han impulsado la demanda de nuevas formas de seguimiento, mapeo y predicci??n de la movilidad de personas. Exploramos c??mo las oportunidades de mercado para las empresas de tecnolog??a y las nuevas empresas de an??lisis de datos creadas por el Enfoque Global de la Migraci??n de la UE han causado enfoques simplificadores al compilar y analizar las estad??sticas migratorias. Mostramos que iniciativas tales como el cambio de nombre de ciertas plataformas y servicios existentes en los sistemas de predicci??n migratoria est??n transformando la conceptualizaci??n de las pol??tica migratoria como un riesgo. A pesar de la promesa de una mayor granularidad, este "enfoque big data" no logra ofrecer una mayor certeza sobre qui?n est?? en movimiento y por qu?. Al contrario, estos enfoques no son adecuados para comprender las complejas din??micas migratorias ni para ofrecer protecci??n a las personas vulnerables. La comercializaci??n de las estad??sticas migratorias a trav?s de Big Data ofrece un caso clave para avanzar sobre enfoques m??s progresivos tanto para las estad??sticas migratorias y como para la justicia global de datos.

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