Artificial Intelligence for Social Good in Migration: Ethical Tools for Refugee Aid

Artificial Intelligence for Social Good in Migration: Ethical Tools for Refugee AidAs artificial intelligence reshapes every sector of human life, its deployment in refugee and migration contexts raises questions that are simultaneously technical, legal, and profoundly moral. This book examines how AI tools — from biometric identity systems and predictive displacement models to algorithmic resettlement matching and automated asylum processing — are transforming humanitarian action for the world's 117 million forcibly displaced people.Drawing on verified empirical research, international refugee law, and critical social science scholarship, Owen Mulima delivers a rigorous yet accessible analysis of what algorithmic humanitarianism promises and what it risks. Each chapter confronts both the genuine efficiency gains and the surveillance dangers, systemic biases, and erosion of dignity that unchecked AI deployment can produce.This is not a book about technology. It is a book about power, protection, and what it means to remain human in a data-driven world.