Yasaman Rohanifar

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Data Migration in HCI: The Politics of Invisible Borders, Informal Networks, and Immigrants’ Data

Host countries' infrastructures often challenge the legitimacy of immigrants' data from their home country, resulting in limiting their access to civic services. Drawing on interviews with 32 immigrants in Canada, we conceptualize Data Migration as the socio-technical, political, and infrastructural process in which i…

CSCW '221st AuthorICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration; ICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration

"Kabootar": Towards Informal, Trustworthy, and Community-Based FinTech for Marginalized Immigrants

Financial technology (FinTech) platforms often exclude certain countries from their services due to global political conflicts. As a result, immigrants from the neglected countries struggle with transferring money to and from their homeland through formal mechanisms. Instead, they get involved in informal transnationa…

CHI '211st AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +1

Money Whispers: Informality, International Politics, and Immigration in Transnational Finance

While the growth of financial technologies (FinTech) is making the flow of money faster, easier, and more secure, such technologies are often unable to serve many countries due to the global political environment. Despite its severe impact, this issue has remained understudied in the HCI literature. We address this ga…

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