publications

@article{Taylor2020,
title = {A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk},
author = {Linnet Taylor and Fran Meissner},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12583},
doi = {10.1111/anti.12583},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-02},
journal = {Antipode},
volume = {52},
number = {1},
pages = {270-290},
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.},
keywords = {autonomy of migration, big data, data governance, global migration, migration statistics, refugee crisis, solutionism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{meissner2015comparing,
title = {Comparing super-diversity},
author = {Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec},
doi = {10.1080/01419870.2015.980295},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-02},
journal = {Ethnic and Racial Studies},
volume = {38},
number = {4},
pages = {541--555},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
abstract = {Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many utilizing the term have referred only to ‘more ethnicities’ rather than to the term's fuller, original intention of recognizing multidimensional shifts in migration patterns. These entail a worldwide diversification of migration channels, differentiations of legal statuses, diverging patterns of gender and age, and variance in migrants' human capital. In this special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the concept is subject to two modes of comparison: (1) side-by-side studies contrasting different places and emergent conditions of super-diversity; and (2) juxtaposed arguments that have differentially found use in utilizing or criticizing super-diversity descriptively, methodologically or with reference to policy and public practice. The contributions discuss super-diversity and its implications in nine cities located in eight countries and four continents.},
keywords = {comparison, diversification, global migration, migration channels, superdiversity, urban diversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}