Digital Migration

In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is often seen as a ''smart'' disruptive tool. Bringing efficiencies to management, and safety to migrants. But the reality is always more complex.

This book is a comprehensive and impassioned account of the relationship between digital technology and migration. From ''top-down'' governmental and corporate shaping of the migrant condition, to the ''bottom-up'' of digital practices helping migrants connect, engage and resist.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores:

• The power relations of digital infrastructures across migrant recruitment, transportation and communication.
• Migrant connections and the use of digital devices, platforms and networks.
• Dominant digital representations of migrants, and how they’re resisted.
• The affect and emotion of digital mig