Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in the human impacts of technologies used on people crossing borders.
She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University where she directs the Migration and Technology Monitor, which funds community grounded projects on border technologies. Petra is the author of two books: The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (The New Press, 2024), a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, and the open-access book Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics of Migration Control (Springer, 2026).


