Human journeys in the digital age: Advances and challenges in Digital Historical Migration Studies

Accelerations in migration, mobility, and processes of globalization recent decades have intersected with parallel developments information communications technology (ICT). These advances had profound influences on historical cultural research. With reference to a diverse range international projects, this paper outlines major directions opportunities the growing field Digital Historical Migration Studies (DHMS). The “digital turn” brings for integrating data macro micro scales, finding new ways combine explore tensions between quantitative qualitative materials, external observations migrants migration self-representations by migrants. plural fluid nature digital content also lends itself multifaceted representations that illustrate complexities lived experiences, individual collective identities. At same time, digitalization studies underscores technological methodological shifts, need self-reflexive approaches, politics power structures underlying data, ethical concerns around protecting migrants' privacy, agency.