This article focuses the interplay of digital media, education and participation in the context of forced migration. From a practice-theoretical perspective the ethnographic research project «Educational Participation of Refugees in Digitalized Educational Arrangements» (BIGEDIB) (duration 2019–2022), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), examines the question of (educational) participation of young refugees in the various digitalized educational and everyday settings. Based on exemplary sequence analyses of field logs of participating observations, the article shows central research findings with regard to conditions for enabling (educational) participation in the context of digitalized educational arrangements. One central result of the analysis is the necessity of creating a multidimensional fit between professional and personal requirements, subjective prerequisites of young refugees, and characteristics of digital artefacts under the framework of the institutional conditions in the educational arrangement.