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Petra Molnar
Petra Molnar in 2024
Academic background
Alma materYork University
University of Toronto
University of Cambridge
Academic work
InstitutionsYork University
Harvard University

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration, technology, and human rights. Molnar has worked all over the world including Jordan, Turkey, the Philippines, Kenya, Colombia, Canada, Palestine, and various parts of Europe.

Molnar is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and is a faculty associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She runs the Migration and Technology Monitor project.[1]

Early life[edit]

A former classical musician,[2] Molnar has been working in migrant justice since 2008, first as a community worker, and now as a researcher and lawyer. Molnar obtained a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from York University,[3] a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toronto,[4] and an LL.M Specializing in International Law from the University of Cambridge.[5] She is a member of good standing of the Law Society of Ontario as a barrister and solicitor.

Career[edit]

Molnar is the author of numerous academic[6] and popular press[7] publications and one of the first[8] and leading international voices on technology and migration.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times,[9] The Guardian,[10] Al Jazeera[11],Time Magazine,[12] Jacobin,[13] The Transnational Institute,[14] and Just Security,[15] as well as local outlets like The Toronto Star,[16] the Globe and Mail,[17] Euractiv,[18] The Border Chronicle,[19] and The Conversation,[20] among others. Molnar advises various national and international bodies, co-authoring reports such as for the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (OHCHR) at the United Nations.[21]

The Walls Have Eyes[edit]

Molnar's first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence[22] chronicles her 6 year long work researching the impacts of border surveillance on refugees and displaced persons. It was published with the New Press in May 2024, with Publisher's Weekly review calling it a "grave wake-up call"[23] and listing it as one of their anticipated Spring 2024 books.[24]

Recognition[edit]

Molnar was profiled as a leader in the the Globe and Mail's "Stepping Up" Series[8] in 2018.

Selected Publications[edit]

  • Molnar, Petra (2024-21-05). The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.[22] The New Press.
  • Molnar, Petra (2023-11). "Nothing about us without us:" participatory methods and surveillance storytelling.[25] Interventions on public geographies. Part of ISSN: 0962-6298[26]
  • Molnar, Petra (2022). Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis. IMISCOE Research Series. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81210-2_3[27]
  • Molnar, Petra (2021) Robots and refugees: The human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in migration.[28] Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. ISBN: 978-183910061-1;978-183910060-4
  • Molnar, Petra (2020). AI and Migration Management. The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.49[29]
  • Molnar, Petra (2019). Technology on the margins: AI and global migration management from a human rights perspective. Cambridge International Law Journal. DOI: 10.4337/cilj.2019.02.07[30]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Migration and Technology Monitor". Migration and Technology Monitor. February 14, 2023.
  2. ^ "Petra Molnar". Petra Molnar.
  3. ^ "Molnar, Petra | Osgoode Hall Law School - York University". Osgoode Hall Law School.
  4. ^ "An interview with Petra Molnar: Twists, Turns and Advice on a Career in International Human Rights Law | International Human Rights Program". ihrp.law.utoronto.ca.
  5. ^ https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Darwinian-Dec-2019-ONLINE-Issuu-131219.pdf
  6. ^ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W28abCgAAAAJ&hl=en
  7. ^ "Published Works". Petra Molnar.
  8. ^ a b "Toronto human rights lawyer sounds the alarm on Canada's plans to use AI in immigration". The Globe and Mail. November 4, 2018 – via www.theglobeandmail.com.
  9. ^ Molnar, Petra; Naranjo, Diego (April 15, 2020). "Opinion | Surveillance Won't Stop the Coronavirus". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ^ Fallon, Katy (November 11, 2020). "UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: 'Data collection isn't apolitical'". The Guardian.
  11. ^ Molnar, E. Tendayi Achiume,Sarah Chander,Petra. "Technology is the new border enforcer, and it discriminates". Al Jazeera.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "The Deadly Digital Frontiers at the Border". 21 May 2024.
  13. ^ "The Grim High-Tech Dystopia on the US-Mexico Border". jacobin.com.
  14. ^ ""All Roads Lead to Jerusalem" | Transnational Institute". www.tni.org. June 13, 2024.
  15. ^ Molnar, Petra (December 20, 2023). "EU's AI Act Falls Short on Protecting Rights at Borders". Just Security.
  16. ^ Reporter, Nicholas Keung Immigration (November 9, 2020). "How artificial intelligence is changing asylum seekers' lives for the worse". Toronto Star.
  17. ^ "Ottawa's use of AI in immigration system has profound implications for human rights". The Globe and Mail. September 26, 2018 – via www.theglobeandmail.com.
  18. ^ "Petra Molnar – Euractiv". www.euractiv.com.
  19. ^ Molnar, Petra. "The New Gospel of Violence: Surveillance Meets Border Violence in Palestine". www.theborderchronicle.com.
  20. ^ "Petra Molnar". The Conversation. June 16, 2024.
  21. ^ https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/Digital-Border-Governance-A-Human-Rights-Based-Approach.pdf
  22. ^ a b "The Walls Have Eyes". The New Press.
  23. ^ "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Petra Molnar".
  24. ^ Snitzky, Dana. "Spring 2024 Adult Preview: History". PublishersWeekly.com.
  25. ^ Jones, Reece; Kocher, Austin; Sultana, Farhana; Smiles, Deondre; McSweeney, Kendra; Molnar, Petra (May 1, 2024). "Interventions on public geographies". Political Geography. 111: 103007. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103007 – via ScienceDirect.
  26. ^ "ISSN 0962-6298 (Print) | Political geography | The ISSN Portal". portal.issn.org.
  27. ^ Molnar, Petra (June 24, 2022). Triandafyllidou, Anna (ed.). Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception. Springer International Publishing. pp. 45–64. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81210-2_3 – via Springer Link.
  28. ^ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Welcome to Scopus".
  29. ^ Molnar, Petra (2020). "AI and Migration Management". In Dubber, Markus D.; Pasquale, Frank; Das, Sunit (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI. pp. 768–787. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.49. ISBN 978-0-19-006739-7.
  30. ^ Molnar, Petra (December 1, 2019). "Technology on the margins: AI and global migration management from a human rights perspective". Cambridge International Law Journal. 8 (2): 305–330. doi:10.4337/cilj.2019.02.07 – via www.elgaronline.com.
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