Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugees performed multifaceted yet interconnected emotional practices. These emotional practices potentially assisted their negotiation of emotional losses and gains resulting from migration. The online mediated emotionality, however, cannot be fully comprehended through the reductionist lenses of binary oppositions such as losses and gains, presence and absence, or positive and negative emotions. This article shows that unaccompanied refugee youth’s experience and expression of emotions online are influenced by more than their migration experience, and that their interconnected nature and complexity need to be considered.

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无人陪伴的难民青年在社交媒体上的情感习俗

无人陪伴的难民青年的移民是一个情感复杂的过程，涉及介导的经验以及情感和情感表达。本文借鉴了来自非洲和中东生活在欧洲的年轻难民对社交媒体的民族志。通过对他们在Facebook上共享的内容进行多模式分析，探索了参与者的情感习惯。调查结果突显了年轻难民如何进行多方面却又相互联系的情感实践。这些情感习俗可能有助于他们就移民造成的情感损失和收获进行谈判。但是，在线介导的情感无法通过二元对立的还原主义视角来全面理解，如损失和收益，存在与否，或正面和负面情绪。