ABSTRACT

This article interrogates how the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic influenced the way that we produce online personas as migrants to Australia. By conducting comparative autoethnographic analysis of our online personas built on the social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we unpack the role of mediated persona performance in connecting to our adopted homes as well as our connection to, and forced separation from, our countries of origin. There is a growing body of research on the impact of COVID-19 on migrants, particularly on forced migrants throughout Europe, and the impact of racism directed at migrants during the early stages of the pandemic. In Australia, scholars considered the role of technology in mediating relationships during lockdowns in 2020. This project broadens the scope of this body of research by looking at migrants who came to Australia with the intention of staying, by looking across platforms, and by considering not only what is shared and why, but what is absent: the ways we were – and are – strategically silent in our online persona performances.

摘要

本文探讨了 2020 年 COVID-19 大流行如何影响我们作为澳大利亚移民制作在线角色的方式。通过对建立在社交媒体网站 Facebook、Instagram 和 Twitter 上的我们的在线角色进行比较性民族志分析，我们揭示了中介角色表现在与我们的第二故乡的联系以及我们与我们的国家的联系和被迫分离方面的作用。起源。越来越多的研究涉及 COVID-19 对移民的影响，特别是对整个欧洲被迫移民的影响，以及大流行早期阶段针对移民的种族主义的影响。在澳大利亚，学者们考虑了 2020 年封锁期间技术在调解关系中的作用。