Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory

Geographies of migration III: The digital migrant

“…Gillespe et al (2018), for example, describe the articulation of digital and physical mobilities as a ‘digital passage’ wherein Syrian refugees utilise smartphone and associated infrastructures to: plan, navigate and document their journeys; maintain contact with family and friends; communicate with smugglers when other options are unavailable; and as a tool for visibility to ensure survival at sea. Even after traversing vast distances and dangerous maritime or land terrain, arrival does not signal the end of migration and its challenges – for Galis and Makrygianni (2022) digital technologies are observed as critical to practical navigation and negotiation, access to translation tools, GPS and digital maps in cities, and avoiding border control spaces in cities; practices which the authors describe as forms of ‘unbordering’.…”