Default value for foreign key in Django migrations.AddField

I just had the same issue and stumbled upon this answer, so here is how I did it:

  operations = [
        # We are forced to create the field as non-nullable before
        # assigning each Car to a Brand
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name="car",
            name="brand",
            field=models.ForeignKey(
                null=True,
                on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT,
                to="model.Brand",
            ),
        ),

        # assign_car_to_brand loops over all my Car objects and sets their
        # "brand" field
        migrations.RunPython(add_category_to_tags, do_nothing),

        # Make the field non-nullable to force all future Car to have a Brand
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name="car",
            name="brand",
            field=models.ForeignKey(
                null=False,
                on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT,
                to="model.Brand",
            ),
            preserve_default=False
        ),

    ]

You can't do it directly. The recommended way of doing this is to create a migration to add it with null=True, then add a data migration that uses either Python or SQL to update all the existing ones to point to available_state_id, then a third migration that changes it to null=False.