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The book offers 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. 

"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 ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ 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 ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Melbourne

With an interdisciplinary approach, the book 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 migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life.
– How histories of pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.
– The realities of researching digital migration, including interviews with leading international researchers.

All author royalties for the book will be donated to the , a hotline for boatpeople in distress. 

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Koen Leurs is associate professor in Gender, media and migration; Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

He is the chair of the Governing the Digital Society special interest group Digital Migration.