Open AccessThe Role of Information and Communication Technology in the EU Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis
Author(s) -
Krzysztof Wasilewski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia migracyjne przegląd polonijny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-4972
pISSN - 2081-4488
DOI - 10.4467/25444972smpp.20.012.12328
Subject(s) - refugee crisis , refugee , european union , political science , information and communications technology , securitization , crisis communication , mass migration , politics , perspective (graphical) , crisis response , political economy , development economics , economy , sociology , public relations , international trade , business , economics , immigration , law , financial system , artificial intelligence , computer science
The 2015 refugee crisis – as the mass influx of migrants from the Middle East is commonly dubbed – tested the European Union’s ability to react to large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Apart from various organizational, social and political changes that the 2015 refugee crisis has brought to the European Union, it has also marked the growing role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the EU’s asylum and migration policies. Drawing from the critical perspective of international relations and such concepts as securitization of migration, the paper aims to analyse the engagement of ICT by EU institutions and individual Member States during the refugee crisis in 2015.