Digital Exiles - Refugee Work in the Global Digital Economy

A deep exploration of the opportunities and risks a global digital economy poses for refugees. The pursuit of a digital livelihood--from attending coding schools in Berlin to training datasets for AI in crisis-stricken Lebanon to online freelancing in Kenya’s refugee camps--represents an increasingly important income opportunity for refugees. Digital work programs by aid organizations and the private sector aim to help the forcibly displaced become self-reliant and successful workers, yet, for many, it creates new forms of exclusion, precarity, and risk. Combining human stories with insights from five years of multi-sited research and applied work with leading organizations, the author presents an alternative vision of an inclusive world of work that can help shape the fair digital economy of the future.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Hackl, Hackl Andreas
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.05.2026
• EAN: 9780262052450
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05245-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, International Economics, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General