This session will explore the impact of facial recognition technology on migrants’ everyday lives and identify how FRT perpetuates racism and anti-Blackness in its design, usage, and data collection and sharing methods. Further, we will discuss how the United States’ design, deployment, and continued reliance on FRT in border and immigration enforcement violate multiple obligations under international human rights law and delve into how this may be remedied through intersectional analysis and decolonial praxis.

Session Participants: 

1. Nana Gyamfi, Black Alliance for Just Immigration

2. Tsion Gurmu, Black Alliance for Just Immigration

3. Ugo Ezeh, Black Alliance for Just Immigration

4. Jose Cossa, Pennsylvania State University