ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I seek to unpack the ways in which the idea of the migrant body is constructed through digital technologies as a heterotopic body in motion. Drawing from discourse in digital cultures around conditions of migration—both for bodies and data—I argue that the ways in which the body is imagined to move mimics the pathways through which data is made to be mobile. In the process, I offer digital affect as a way of interrupting this focus on relentless circulation, again, both of data and bodies, and instead look at the body that is being digitally moved and physically stuck, creating conditions of aporia where self-intelligibility and determination often remain unresolved.
