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SUMMARY:Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee. - Maha Abdelrah
 man\,  Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics
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CONTACT:Prof. Nebojša Radić
DESCRIPTION:A market for mental health apps\, designed to help millions of
  refugees manage symptoms of PTSD and other mental health issues\, has pro
 liferated since the outbreak of the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. \nTh
 ese bite-size\, on-the-go\, mindfulness-based apps have emerged at the int
 ersection of new investment models\, state-of-the-art AI and surveillance 
 and border control regimes.\nConceived of as a more cost-effective approac
 h to refugee mental health care\, mental health apps are part of a larger 
 endeavour to create the 'smart' refugee.\nSelf-monitoring\, agile\, entrep
 reneurial and resilient in the face of adversity\, the smart refugee is ex
 pected to emerge as a node in a network of information flow\, constantly c
 onnected to digital technology\, at once receiving and providing real-time
  data.\nBiometric and data markets\, some of the fastest growing in the wo
 rld\, have already been eagerly collecting refugee fingerprints\, iris sca
 ns\, facial images\, etc. \nTo add to this arsenal of data\, the new apps 
 are harvesting\, storing and selling what I call the mental prints of refu
 gee trauma\, turning the human experience of loss and grief into quantifia
 ble and marketable commodities. 
LOCATION:Darwin College\, Richard King Room
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