From robo-dogs to drones to biometrics, high-risk technologies now impact every aspect of migration. Based on years of researching borderlands across the world, lawyer and anthropologist Petra Molnar’s book, The Walls Have Eyes is a global story—a dystopian vision turned reality, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm. Examining how technology is being deployed by governments on the world’s most vulnerable with little regulation, Molnar shows us how borders are now big business, with defense contractors and tech start-ups alike scrambling to capture this highly profitable market.

The Walls Have Eyes reveals the profound human stakes of the sharpening of borders around the globe, foregrounding the stories of people on the move and the daring forms of resistance that have emerged against the hubris and cruelty of those seeking to use technology to turn human beings into problems to be solved.

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration, technology, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her first book is called The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and was published with The New Press in May 2024.

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