Films

Across the USA, every day, hundreds of thousands of migrants are tracked through a global positioning (GPS) device strapped to their ankle or through a cellphone with the SmartLINK application. The SmartLINK application sends notifications at various times of the day and night ordering asylum seekers to take and submit a photo of themselves. This deployment of for-profit surveillance technology creates a parallel system to the tens of thousands of detention beds that make the USA the country with the largest immigrant detention population in the world.

The videos were made in collaboration with asylum seekers who have chosen to speak out about their experiences of digital detention – not to improve their personal situation, but in the hope that no other person will have to go through the same hardships in the future.