Dagmar Vorlíček and I have written a short Editorial for the upcoming March issue of the Journal of International Relations and Development - the first issue under our editorial tenure. The text introduces the new editorial board, looks back at 40 years of JIRD, and outlines the editorial vision for the coming years.
New CURATE Working Paper
The 4th CURATE Working Paper has now been published. It explores the role of data quality in migration and border management through the notions of legibility and the duality of identification, showing how data quality is key for both empowerment of mobile populations and state control.
Editor-in-Chief, JIRD
From January 2025 onwards, Dagmar Vorlíček and I will be taking over as editors-in-chief for the Journal of International Relations and Development. JIRD is the flagship, generalist IR journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association. We will be supported by an editorial team that includes Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Michal Kolmaš, Marko Lovec, …
New publication
My latest paper has now been published as part of a new edited collection on "Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era." The chapter, entitled "Data Quality in Police Work" engages the question what the concept of data quality means in police practice, how it can be studied, and explores its implications. Part …
New publication
In a new German-language article entitled "Vom Sachverhalt zum Datengehalt: Polizeiliche Rapportierungspraxis zwischen Einzelfall und Aggregatebene", Jonas Hagmann and I explore how digitization affects frontline police work vis-à-vis increasing analytical use cases for data. Published in the Kriminologisches Journal and based on empirical research, the article explicates the creative practices that frontline officers use to …
New publication
My chapter on "AI and interoperability" has now been published as part of the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. The chapter discusses the concept of interoperability through the example of European databases for security and migration, and with a particular focus on the role of artificial intelligence in making things work together.
New publication
My latest article, entitled "Politics of creep: Latent development, technology monitoring, and the evolution of the Schengen Information System", has now been published as open access online first version in the European Journal of International Security. In the article, Vanessa Ugolini and I empirically reconstruct the techno-politics that have set up the transformation of the …
Kick-off DATAMIG
The DATAMIG Cost Action was successfully kicked-off by the first Management Committee Meeting. Over the next four years, DATAMIG will enable and facilitate collaboration between researchers working on questions of technology and data in migration and migration governance.
First CURATE Report available
The first Report from the CURATE Project is now available. It presents findings from survey research on data quality and related institutional arrangements and processes, carried out between January and February 2023 among 65 national-level law enforcement and border control organizations in the European Union/Schengen area. Overall, findings suggest growing awareness of data quality issues …
New publication
This new book chapter, entitled "Security technologies and criticality", engages the ambiguous relations between a critical research attitude and the complex socio-technical formations that we tend to encounter in the field. Through the use of the concept of "critical intimacy", the chapter argues that there is a middle ground between the extreme positions of "proximity" …
Matthias Leese 