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“A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars… It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things.”- Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong“A must read for everyone who is concerned with questions of human mobility, media and communications and the digital border.”- Myria Georgiou, LSE“A much-needed addition to scholarship on mobility, technology, and migration… The book is poised to become a touchstone text.”- C.L. Quinan University of MelbourneIn 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 digitalinfrastructuresacross migrant recruitment, transportation and communication.• Migrantconnectionsand the use of digital devices, platforms and networks.• Dominant digitalrepresentationsof migrants, and how they’re resisted.• Theaffectandemotionof digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life.• Howhistoriesof pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.• The realities ofresearching digital migration, including interviews with leading international researchers.Critical yet hopeful, Koen Leurs opens up the unequal power relations at the heart of digital migration studies, challenging us to imagine more just alternatives.Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.