The unprecedented displacement of over 70 million forcibly displaced people globally has created an urgent need for innovative solutions to provide education, empowerment, and integration for these marginalized populations. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and social robotics show the potential to deliver more personalized, scalable learning and social services to forced migrants. However, deploying these advanced technologies in forced migration contexts carries profound ethical responsibilities.
Thoughtful research and evidence-based guidance are crucial to ensure these rapidly developing technologies are harnessed responsibly to empower rather than further marginalize forced migrant communities. This Research Topic seeks contributions that help shape the ethical, rights-based implementation of technologies like AI and VR for forced migrant education, healthcare, political participation, and social services. Specifically, we welcome systematic analysis, discussion papers, theoretical papers, original research, and case studies providing insights on key questions surrounding the risks of algorithmic bias, protection of data privacy, promotion of accessibility, and participatory design of technology in consultation with forced migrant populations themselves.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions addressing, but not limited to following topics:
• Understanding and mitigating risks of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, and digital discrimination in education technologies for diverse and vulnerable forced migrant populations.
• Promoting digital literacy, access, and motivational design to encourage active and safe participation of forced migrants in tech-enabled education.
• Developing ethical frameworks and secure data sharing policies to protect forced migrant data privacy and prevent misuse of education technologies.
• Leveraging AI VR and other emerging technologies to provide culturally responsive support and resources while preserving forced migrant diversity, agency, and inclusion.
• Optimizing integration of emerging technologies with teachers and communities to holistically support forced migrant well-being, growth, and self-determination.
• Comparative assessment of education technologies' impacts on multiculturalism, social inclusion, and empowerment of forced migrants.
• Designing human-centered education technologies that amplify forced migrant voices, perspectives, and participation in the process.
• Fostering pluralism, dialogue, and understanding between forced migrants and host communities through the thoughtful integration of technologies.
The unprecedented global forced migration crisis calls for innovative solutions to empower and support marginalized populations. Emerging technologies like AI and VR show potential to expand access to education, healthcare, and social services when thoughtfully designed and deployed. However, these technologies also risk further excluding forced migrants if issues of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, discrimination, and threats to data privacy go unaddressed.
This Research Topic invites contributions from diverse disciplines to shape an ethical, empowering framework for technologies that uphold forced migrant rights and inclusion. We welcome research identifying risks of advanced technologies in forced migration contexts as well as evidence-based solutions to mitigate harm. This includes studies on promoting digital literacy, participatory design, motivational strategies, secure data policies, and cultural responsiveness in tech-enabled services. We encourage analysis on optimizing technology to support holistic forced migrant well-being and self-determination. Together we can build knowledge to responsibly apply AI, VR, robotics, and more to empower forced migrants, fostering greater equity, dialogue, and social inclusion.
We look forward to research outputs spanning systematic reviews, theoretical discussions, original empirical findings, and case studies to publish in this timely issue. Your contributions will help ensure emerging technologies empower rather than further marginalize the world’s most vulnerable people.
Keywords:
Refugee Education, AI discrimination, AI, AI bias
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
The unprecedented displacement of over 70 million forcibly displaced people globally has created an urgent need for innovative solutions to provide education, empowerment, and integration for these marginalized populations. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and social robotics show the potential to deliver more personalized, scalable learning and social services to forced migrants. However, deploying these advanced technologies in forced migration contexts carries profound ethical responsibilities.
Thoughtful research and evidence-based guidance are crucial to ensure these rapidly developing technologies are harnessed responsibly to empower rather than further marginalize forced migrant communities. This Research Topic seeks contributions that help shape the ethical, rights-based implementation of technologies like AI and VR for forced migrant education, healthcare, political participation, and social services. Specifically, we welcome systematic analysis, discussion papers, theoretical papers, original research, and case studies providing insights on key questions surrounding the risks of algorithmic bias, protection of data privacy, promotion of accessibility, and participatory design of technology in consultation with forced migrant populations themselves.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions addressing, but not limited to following topics:
• Understanding and mitigating risks of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, and digital discrimination in education technologies for diverse and vulnerable forced migrant populations.
• Promoting digital literacy, access, and motivational design to encourage active and safe participation of forced migrants in tech-enabled education.
• Developing ethical frameworks and secure data sharing policies to protect forced migrant data privacy and prevent misuse of education technologies.
• Leveraging AI VR and other emerging technologies to provide culturally responsive support and resources while preserving forced migrant diversity, agency, and inclusion.
• Optimizing integration of emerging technologies with teachers and communities to holistically support forced migrant well-being, growth, and self-determination.
• Comparative assessment of education technologies' impacts on multiculturalism, social inclusion, and empowerment of forced migrants.
• Designing human-centered education technologies that amplify forced migrant voices, perspectives, and participation in the process.
• Fostering pluralism, dialogue, and understanding between forced migrants and host communities through the thoughtful integration of technologies.
The unprecedented global forced migration crisis calls for innovative solutions to empower and support marginalized populations. Emerging technologies like AI and VR show potential to expand access to education, healthcare, and social services when thoughtfully designed and deployed. However, these technologies also risk further excluding forced migrants if issues of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, discrimination, and threats to data privacy go unaddressed.
This Research Topic invites contributions from diverse disciplines to shape an ethical, empowering framework for technologies that uphold forced migrant rights and inclusion. We welcome research identifying risks of advanced technologies in forced migration contexts as well as evidence-based solutions to mitigate harm. This includes studies on promoting digital literacy, participatory design, motivational strategies, secure data policies, and cultural responsiveness in tech-enabled services. We encourage analysis on optimizing technology to support holistic forced migrant well-being and self-determination. Together we can build knowledge to responsibly apply AI, VR, robotics, and more to empower forced migrants, fostering greater equity, dialogue, and social inclusion.
We look forward to research outputs spanning systematic reviews, theoretical discussions, original empirical findings, and case studies to publish in this timely issue. Your contributions will help ensure emerging technologies empower rather than further marginalize the world’s most vulnerable people.
Keywords:
Refugee Education, AI discrimination, AI, AI bias
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.