Migrant Racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis

被引:11
作者
Avraamidou, Maria [1 ]
Eftychiou, Eftychios [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cyprus, Dept Psychol, Nicosia, Cyprus
关键词
Twitter; social media; migration; race; hashtags; COVID-19; REFUGEE CRISIS; MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS; HATE SPEECH; CONSTRUCTION; IMMIGRANT; MIGRATION; COMMUNITY; METAPHOR; NETWORK; RACISM;
D O I
10.1177/17480485211054301
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This work examines how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the migration debate on Twitter. Through co-hashtag network analysis, time-frequency and content analysis, it shows that the pandemic was related with positive (humanitarian) and negative (threat) stances about migration. The positive side focused on the need to protect refugees stranded at camps in Greece from COVID-19. The negative focused on the Greek-Turkish land-border crisis (Evros crisis), using COVID-19 to reinforce migrants as racialized others. These findings fit the problematization of positive and negative migrant representations in the Global north as Eurocentric. In the case of camps, refugees fit well within the victim/helpless frame, justifying humanitarianism, this time on health grounds. Regarding the border crisis, refugees also fit the Eurocentric frame of violent/male/inferior other who could spread a deadly virus. Overall, COVID-19 intertwined with migration in Twitter debates, reinforcing the racialized, Eurocentric representational field on migrants from the Global south.
引用
收藏
页码:227 / 251
页数:25
相关论文
共 85 条
[1]  
Abel EmilyK., 2007, Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
[2]  
Avraamidou M., 2020, TRIPLEC-COMMUN CAPIT, DOI [https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1080, DOI 10.31269/TRIPLEC.V18I1.1080]
[3]  
Avraamidou M, 2021, INT J COMMUN-US, V15, P2849
[4]  
Banton M., 1996, DICT RACE ETHNIC REL, P308
[5]   Landscape and scale in media representations: the construction of offshore farm labour in Ontario, Canada [J].
Bauder, H .
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES, 2005, 12 (01) :41-58
[6]   New "Crises," Old Habits: Online Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in UK Migration Policy Discourses [J].
Bennett, Samuel .
JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE STUDIES, 2018, 16 (1-2) :140-160
[7]  
Boberg S., 2020, PANDEMIC POPULISM FA
[8]   Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets [J].
Borra, Erik ;
Rieder, Bernhard .
ASLIB JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 2014, 66 (03) :262-278
[9]  
Bozdag C, 2017, INT J COMMUN-US, V11, P4046
[10]  
Brian Tara., 2014, Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost During Migration