This paper focuses on how information accessed through new media is discursively represented by migrants. Taking an ethnographic approach to the analysis of Uzbek and Iranian migration discourse, we show how the underspecified and decontextualized information received via technology is combined with the “imagined homeland” in order to reconstruct images of life there‐and‐now. Since images of the homeland are chronotopic in nature, we argue that the reconstruction of these images can be understood as rechronotopization. The rechronotopized image, then, operates as a lens through which migrants socially position themselves relative to the homeland. More specifically, we show how the conflict between prior images and rechronotopized images are invoked to construct difference and discuss disconnection. Thus, while technology facilitates connection, we argue that because it reminds migrants of how things have changed since they left, it may also lead to feelings of disconnection.

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移动（断开）连接：新技术和国土的历时图像

本文关注的是移民如何通过新媒体访问性地代表信息。我们采用人种学方法对乌兹别克和伊朗移民话语进行了分析，我们展示了如何将通过技术获得的未充分说明和去上下文化的信息与“想象中的家园”相结合，以重建那里现在的生活形象。由于家园的图像在本质上是时变的，因此我们认为这些图像的重建可以理解为再时变。然后，重新计时的图像充当了一个镜头，通过这些镜头，移民在社会上相对于家园定位自己。更具体地说，我们展示了如何调用先前图像和重新同步化图像之间的冲突以构造差异并讨论断开连接。因此，尽管技术促进了联系，但我们认为，由于它使移民想起离开后的事物是如何变化的，因此它也可能导致脱节的感觉。