
Digital Negotiations in Student Migration:
Infrastructures and Impact
by Rohan Pai, Sameer Bajaj, Amrita Nanda, Supratik Mitra and Kavya Narayanan
At a Glance
The India-Germany student migration corridor reveals a fundamental contradiction in digital migration governance: while the number of Indian students migrating to Germany has doubled over the last five years with Indian students currently forming the largest international community on German campuses, the digital infrastructure designed to support them creates new forms of exclusion and surveillance. Analysis of 12+ interconnected systems demonstrates how students' personal data flows through multiple jurisdictions with minimal transparency or agency.
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