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Formosa Monitor Alliance

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The Formosa Monitor Alliance (MFA) is run by a coalition of Taiwanese NGOs, including Covenants WatchTaiwan Association for Human RightsEnvironmental Rights Foundation, and Environmental Jurists Association. The MFA has posted news articles, short interviews with local priests and legal analyses, with introductions to relevant laws such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs). 

Self-description of the group on social media:「監督台塑越鋼聯盟」由長期聲援台塑越鋼受害者的團體們組成,旨在為台塑越鋼汙染案的受害者爭取賠償、倡議環境正義,並監督政府及企業履行其人權義務。

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The article focuses on the analysis of border control agencies and practices of coordinating, classifying and deploying data.  The authors' primarily goal is outlining these processes, opening up possibilities for future analysis of power relations (p. 65). Our shared research question further encourages us to ask how different actors and publics could critically engage with the data practices.