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Chair for Sociology of Technology

Dr. Silvan Pollozek

Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details

pollozek[at]europa-uni.de

Office: CP 118a
Office hours: By appointment (send me an Email)

Research Areas

  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)
  • (Post-) Actor-Network Theory
  • Digital Infrastructures of Europe
  • Technologies of Migration and Border Control
  • Qualitative & Ethnographic Methods

Curriculum Vitae

Silvan Pollozek is scientific employee at the Chair for Sociology of Technology and member of the Science & Technology Studies group at ENS. After studying cultural studies at the University of Leipzig (2008-2011) and sociology and gender studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (2011-2014), he was a PhD candidate at the Digital/Media/Lab at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (2015-2020).

Silvan's research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, critical migration, borders and security studies. He focuses on technologies of migration and border control, on data-oriented civil society engagement in the realm of migration, on the techno-politics of bureaucratic reordering, and on the co-production of infrastructures and European polities. Silvan is interested in actor-network and practice theory, as well as in flat methodologies and qualitative methods of vast socio-technical networks.

Currently, Silvan does research on the digitalization of asylum administrations, on data activism, and on interoperability. In his PhD project, he conducted a multi-sited ethnography of the information infrastructure of Frontex operations and worked out the architectures and practices that (re)order the exchange of data across state and EU-agencies, the production of knowledge on migratory phenomena and populations, and the network of security actors.

Silvan is the co-founder of the independent and international network STS-MIGTEC that brings together scholars at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security and border studies by organizing lecture series, conferences, publications and research projects.

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Selection of recent publications

Pollozek, Silvan & Passoth, Jan-Hendrik (2023) Provisional by design. Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control. In: Science as Culture.

Pollozek, Silvan & Leese, Matthias (2023) Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control. In: Big Data & Society. (open access)

Pollozek, Silvan (2020) Mapping European Border Control: On Small Maps, Reflexive Inversion and Interference. In: Social Inclusion. Special Issue “Method as Border: Articulating ‘Inclusion/Exclusion’ as an Academic Concern in Migration and Border Research in Europe”. (open access)

Pollozek, Silvan (2020) Turbulences of speeding up data circulation. Frontex and its crooked temporalities of ‘real-time’ border control. In: Mobilities, Special Issue on Time and Normativities. (open access)

Pollozek, Silvan & Passoth, Jan-Hendrik (2019) Data Collection and the Logistics of Migration. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Special Issue on Data and Migration. (open access)