Report of Empirical Results: Innovative methods for studying migration dynamics: Insights from the DYNAMIG project

This report presents methodological insights from the DYNAMIG project, which studies migration decision-making as a dynamic and evolving process rather than a one-off choice.

• Gender mainstreaming is essential. Gender norms and inequalities shape migration aspirations and constraints and affect who can be reached by different research methods.

• Social media advertising enables fast, scalable recruitment for survey experiments in the Global South, but systematically produces gender and access

biases that require active correction and monitoring.

• Elite conjoint survey experiments provide structured and rare evidence on how policymakers and experts understand migration drivers and policy levers,

complementing migrant-focused data.

• Digital diaries capture migration decision-making as it unfolds over time, revealing miss.

• Visual elicitation tools, such as the Blob Bridge, help access affective and relational dimensions of migration that are difficult to verbalize through standard interviews.

• Overall, the report shows that migration research benefits from combining complementary methods within designs that are context-sensitive, ethically

grounded, especially if researchers are aware of and appropriately deal with their limits.

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