Biography
Emre was awarded a PhD from Istanbul University’s International Relations PhD Programme in 2016, and he was a British Academy Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) for two years before becoming a Departmental Lecturer in the MSc in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnoography (SAME). As a political scientist and international relations expert, he is driven by a passion to shed light on the social and political impact of technological innovation, focusing on surveillance technologies in migration management, border security, and international development. His first monograph, Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants, was published by the Bristol University Press in December 2023. He co-edited "Data Science for Migration and Mobility" with Professor Albert Ali Salah (University of Utrecht) and Dr Tuba Bircan (University of Cambridge), which was published by the Oxford University Press Proceedings of the British Academy in November 2022.
Selected publications
The war in Gaza and testing war technologies on migrants
Blog | Transforming Society | 06/02/2024
Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies are used against Migrants
Book | 11/01/2024
Press Release
Using Social Media’s Data for Good: Analysing the Economic Impact of the 2023 Earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria
Blog | Emre Eren Korkmaz & Brittney Butler | 30/11/2023