Who Cares about Data?

In the summer of 2022, Trine Rask Nielsen joined us at the Free University of Bolzano for a two-month research stay. She had been doing rich ethnographic work as part of the project with her supervisor, Prof. Naja Holten Møller at the Confronting Data co-lab. She proposed to look at the data with a care perspective, and I was very excited about having the opportunity to do that together. What happened in the next weeks was a great collaboration, where we discussed the paper, the theoretical work, and academic life. In the paper, we investigate how asylum stakeholders enact care as an aspect of asylum casework, and propose that care is enacted by caseworkers in moments of ambivalence, translation, and attentiveness to “new substantial information” relevant for asylum decision-making. The submission was accepted to CSCW journal and received the David D. Martin Award at ECSCW 2023. Here you can read an interview to Trine, and here you find the full paper.