Surveillance without Borders
The Case of Karen Refugees in Sheffield
Geff Green and Eleanor Lockley, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
This chapter presents a case study of the Sheffield Karen community’s experience of surveillance and cyber conflict. It outlines how “local” conflicts can be manifested at great distances, targeting social media and phone hacking. In this case, a local conflict originated in a completely different locality. It also moved into a virtual world, one characterized by an “inverse reach,” allowing the oppressors to reach out and touch the oppressed by appropriating their channels of communication and using information gained though surveillance to attack them in specific ways that referenced aspects ...
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