Migrant digital space: Building an incomplete map to navigate public online migration

In 2018, the interdisciplinary research project “DIGINAUTS—migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime” set off to explore the information practices of migrants and solidarity networks across specific European regions along contemporary migration routes (Greece, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden). Central to this effort was the role of information and types of communication technology (ICT) in circum- venting and challenging the European border regime (see also Sandberg and Rossi in the Introductory chapter of this volume). To address the implicated role of ICT in contemporary migration, the research team applied a mixed-methods approach that would bring together offline ethnographic fieldwork with large-scale online data analysis.The idea was to produce a map of the digital resources and spaces that constitute a consider- able part of the informational background of contemporary migration.