[DATAGOV Core] Visitors this semester

[Stefania Milan]

As promised, here goes an overview of our visitors. By “ours” I do not necessarily mean you have to entertain them!
But these might still be cool interactions.


  *   Diletta Huyskes<https://www.dilettahuyskes.eu/>, University of Milan (Italy): MAY 4 TO MAY 23
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Silvan Pollozek, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany): MAY 11 to JUNE 3 (bio below)
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Rafael Grohmann<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>, University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). Rafael is not technically visiting us but will spend the whole month of JUNE at ZeMKI in Bremen. They express interest in visiting us. Perhaps good for GDC. Anyway, another well-networked Brazilian contact.



Silvan Pollozek
Post-doc / scientific employee
European New School of Digital Studies
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. My work lies at the intersection of Sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Critical Migration and Security Studies. It focuses on technologies, infrastructures, and broader processes of datafication in European migration and border control. My research has examined, among other topics, the circulation of data in the context of Frontex operations in Greece, the digitalization of the German asylum administration (BAMF), and EU database interoperability, including its contestation by civil society organizations in EU policymaking processes.
I am co-coordinator of the research project Calculating Migration, co-founder of the research network STS-MigTec<https://www.sts-migtec.org/events>, and a core group member and working group leader within the COST Action DATAMIG. Current activities<https://data-mig.eu/wg1-datamig-prague-workshop/> within DATAMIG focus on the transnational traveling of technologies, policies, and forms of contestation in migration governance. I am currently guest editing several special issues on the technopolitics of interoperability<https://journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/techno-politicsofinteroperability> in migration contexts, on calculating migration, and on practices of making publics under conditions of securitization, secrecy, and non-citizenship.
During my stay, I am working on a paper addressing statecraft, European integration, and database interoperability. In addition, I am developing the exposé for my habilitation project, which explores the intersections of digital migration and border control with social welfare, as well as local counter-strategies in the context of sanctuary cities and refugee camps.

Keywords:
datafication, technologies,  infrastructures (both high- and low-tech), data practices, control and surveillance, governmentality, Europe, civil society,  activism, contestation, (global) circulations

Selection of publications:
- Pollozek, Silvan et al. (eds.) (accepted) Migration Data Matters. A Keyword Approach to the Datafication of Migration and Border Control. Liverpool Press. (Handbook project as part of the COST Action Datamig, Working Group1)
- Pollozek S and Amelung N (2026) How civil society organizations challenge the datafication of securitized migration control: on knowledge-based action repertoires in ecologies of contention. Security Dialogue: xhaf019.
- Pollozek S and Passoth J-H (2024) Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(9): 2327–2345.
- Pollozek S and Passoth J-H (2023) Provisional by design. Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control. Science as Culture 32(3): 411–434.
- Pollozek S (2020) Turbulences of speeding up data circulation. Frontex and its crooked temporalities of ‘real-time’ border control. Mobilities 15(5). 5: 677–693.

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