News and Research articles on Risk

The contingencies of platform power and risk management in the gig economy

Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1778

This paper demonstrates how gig platforms can become both a resource for risk management and a new source of risk, depending on the complex interaction between a platform’s labour management strategies on the one hand and the mix of support structures and dependencies in a worker’s life on the other.

Programming the machine: gender, race, sexuality, AI, and the construction of credibility and deceit at the border

Lucy Hall, University of Amsterdam
William Clapton, University of New South Wales
PUBLISHED ON: 7 Dec 2021 DOI: 10.14763/2021.4.1601

This article considers the use of AI border control technologies to manage security risks and the gendered, racialised, and sexualised impacts this may have on both regular travellers and asylum seekers.