2024 Finalist
Governor General’s Literary Award for NonFiction
A chilling exposé of the inhumane and lucrative sharpening of borders around the globe through experimental surveillance technology.
The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence offers a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments while also introducing strategies of togetherness across physical and ideological borders.
Praise for The Walls Have Eyes
A grave wake-up call.”
—Publishers Weekly
The border industrial complex is a billion-dollar business set to grow exponentially over the coming decades. The Walls Have Eyes is a compelling read, but also a warning about the world we’re entering where civilians with Brown and Black skin looking for a better life are demonized, targeted, surveilled, and endlessly monitored. This book is a tool of resistance.”
—Antony Loewenstein, independent journalist, filmmaker, and author of The Palestine Laboratory
“No other book illuminates the everyday violence of high-tech border technologies like The Walls Have Eyes. Molnar’s powerful storytelling bears witness to the stories of those who are navigating the hostile fault lines of this warming planet and to the machinations of those who profit from the displacement, surveillance, and dehumanization of vulnerable populations.”
—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Press Coverage
Review: The New Old Warfare, Sophia Goodfriend, Boston Review, Fall 2024
Interview: How exclusionary and violent border policies have been aided by Artificial Intelligence, w/ Petra Molnar, Law and Disorder on KPFA 94.1 , 17 December 2024
Interview (audio and transcript): Petra Molnar on Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,Tech Policy Press, 8 December 2024
Article: In the War on Migrants, A Trump Win is Really a Win for Big Tech, Tech Policy Press, 4 December 2024
Interview: AI Border Surveillance Tech Profits Soar, Human Rights Across the Board Sink – Petra Molnar, The Analysis News, 27 November 2024
Interview (German): „Was an den Grenzen passiert, bleibt nicht dort,“ TAZ, 15 November 2024
Interview: New Books in Sociology: The Walls Have Eyes, New Books Network, 21 November, 2024
Podcast: AI at the Border, Immigrantly: Cross Cultural Conversations, 19 November, 2024
Interview: Interview: Petra Molnar, author of ‘The walls have eyes,’ Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly, 7 November 2024
Interview: CR082: Surviving migration in the age of AI with Petra Molnar, Cloud Realities, 7 November 2024
Review: The Walls Have Eyes—Surveillance in the Algorithm Age, Iason Athanasiadis, The Markaz Review, 18 October 2024
Podcast and Interview: THE WALLS HAVE EYES, Surviving Migration in the age of Artificial Intelligence, Refocus Media Labs, 17 October 2024 (Podcast here)
Interview (Swedish): Högteknologisk gränsbevakning skärskådas i ny bok, Dagens Arena, 27 September, 2024
Interview: Artificial intelligence is policing the US-Mexico border - and it's big business, ABC Radio National, 26 September 2024
Interview: How Artificial Intelligence is Watching Borders, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, 23 September 2024
Interview: The Walls Have Eyes : A Conversation on Migration in the Age of AI, University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, 23 September 2024
Interview: Tech sector called out for controversial border technology, The Record, 15 September 2024
Interview: Technologies of Border Violence with Petra Molnar
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur, WORT.FM, 9 August 2024
Podcast Interview: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Border Technologies and Human Rights with Petra Molnar
Litigation Nation, 8 August 2024
Review: How Technology Helps to Criminalize Migrants
The Globe Post, 6 August 2024
Podcast: “The Walls Have Eyes: B
Interview: ‘Tech Doesn’t Just Stay at the Border’: Petra Molnar on Surveillance’s Long Reach
Texas Observer, 11 July 2024
Book Excerpt: ‘How do we control Palestinians? We make them feel like we are everywhere’
Open Democracy, 8 July 2024
Podcast Interview: What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Developing World? | The Development Podcast
The World Bank Podcast, 28 June 2024
Podcast Interview: Why are migrants becoming test subjects?
Your Undivided Attention, 20 June 2024
Op-Ed: Deadly border technologies are increasingly employed to violently deter migration
The Conversation, 16 June 2024
Interview: AI surveillance at the Olympics and on our borders
CBC Spark, 9 June 2024
Interview: Surviving Migration In the Age of AI
Redefining AI, 7 June 2024
Interview: The Just Security Podcast: ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ Book Talk — Surviving Migration in The Age of Artificial Intelligence
Just Security, 7 June 2024
Review: ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ – An emotionally raw and enlightening read about the discriminatory surveillance of asylum-seekers
View Digital, 6 June 2024
Podcast Interview: The Walls Have Eyes: A Podcast with Petra Molnar
The Border Chronicle, 30 May 2024
Book Excerpt: The Grim High-Tech Dystopia on the US-Mexico Border
Jacobin, 21 May 2024
Op-Ed: The Deadly Digital Frontiers at the Border
Time Magazine, 21 May 2024
Review: The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence x Petra Molnar
Harare Review, 17 May 2024
Book Excerpt: “All Roads Lead to Jerusalem:” A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
TNI, 19 December 2023
Book Review: Spring 2024 Highly Anticipated Books - Politics and Current Events
Publisher’s Weekly, 01 December 2023
Literary Agents
Amanda Orozco
Transatlantic Agency
amanda@transatlanticagency.com
Brenna English-Loeb
Transatlantic Agency
brenna@transatlanticagency.com
Book Tour
Check back for more dates and links soon!
April 10th: Logic(s) Magazine, New York, NY and Online
April 23rd: Boston University, Boston, MA
April 24th: MetaLab and Berkman Klein Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
May 22nd: Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
May 25th: The Good Shepherd, Tucson, AZ
With John Washington, author of The Case for Open Borders and Todd Miller, author and journalist with The Border Chronicle
May 29th: Busboys and Poets Bookstore, Washington, DC
June 5th: Duke of York Pub, with the Centre for Refugee Studies, Toronto
June 25th: Shipwrecked: Rethinking migration and asylum in Europe International Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece
June 26th: Edinburgh Futures Institute and BRAID, Edinburgh, UK
July 4th: Weinzenbaum Institut, Berlin, Germany
July 31st: fromBattlefields toRoborders, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
Information here (Exhibit from July 31st to October 13th, 2024)
Sept 11th: Politiken Newspaper Debate and Lecture, Copenhagen
Sept 16th: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sept 17th: University of Toronto book reading and International Human Rights Program Alumni Event, Toronto, Canada
Sept 18th: University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Sept 19th: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Sept 23rd: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Sept 29th: Brooklyn Book Festival, New York (in person)
Nov 12th: Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial, Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin, Germany (online)
Nov 12th: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL