Migrant Racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis

IF 1.3 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Communication Gazette Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI:10.1177/17480485211054301

Maria Avraamidou, Eftychios Eftychiou

引用次数: 2

Abstract

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.

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边境危机和流行病危机期间推特上的移民种族化

这项工作考察了2019冠状病毒病大流行的爆发如何重塑了推特上的移民辩论。通过共同标签网络分析、时频分析和内容分析，表明疫情与移民的积极(人道主义)立场和消极(威胁)立场相关。积极的一面侧重于保护滞留在希腊难民营的难民免受COVID-19侵害的必要性。负面影响主要集中在希腊-土耳其陆地边境危机(埃夫罗斯危机)上，利用COVID-19来强化移民是种族化的其他人。这些发现符合将全球北方的积极和消极移民代表问题化为以欧洲为中心的观点。就难民营而言，难民完全符合受害者/无助者的框架，证明人道主义是合理的，这一次是基于健康理由。关于边境危机，难民也符合以欧洲为中心的框架，即暴力/男性/劣等他人可能传播致命病毒。总体而言，在推特上的辩论中，COVID-19与移民交织在一起，强化了以种族为中心的、以欧洲为中心的关于全球南方移民的代表性领域。

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International Communication Gazette COMMUNICATION-

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4.40

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5.30%

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