Immediately after newly inaugurated President Trump issued Executive Order 13769 in 2017, commonly referred to as the ‘Muslim ban’, people around the world engaged in widespread resistance in a variety of ways, including through a relatively new forum: social media. While scholars have examined counterframing and symbolic boundary-work in resistance movements, little is known about impact social media platforms may have on these narratives. Accordingly, in this article, we explore how actors engage in boundary-work and counterframing through the use of social media. Using Twitter posts containing ‘#IamaRefugee’ as our data, we find that activists engaged in different dimensions of boundary-work in opposition to Trump’s ban including creating boundaries between the immoral ‘them’ and moral ‘us’; challenging the boundaries between supposedly threatening refugees and the dominant group; and strengthening the bond of those in opposition to Trump’s policies and rhetoric by reinforcing the messages of solidarity. We argue that this boundary-work culminated in direct calls for mobilization. The implications of our findings are meaningful to scholarship on refugee studies, social movements, and framing and to those interested in opposing problematic elite framing.

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#IamaRefugee：社交媒体抵制特朗普的“穆斯林禁令”

在新任总统特朗普于 2017 年发布第 13769 号行政命令（通常称为“穆斯林禁令”）后，世界各地的人们立即以各种方式进行了广泛的抵抗，包括通过一个相对较新的论坛：社交媒体。虽然学者们研究了抵抗运动中的反框架和象征性边界工作，但对社交媒体平台可能对这些叙述产生的影响知之甚少。因此，在本文中，我们探讨了行动者如何通过使用社交媒体参与边界工作和反框架。使用包含“#IamaRefugee”的 Twitter 帖子作为我们的数据，我们发现活动家从事不同维度的边界工作以反对特朗普的禁令，包括在不道德的“他们”和道德的“我们”之间建立界限；挑战所谓的威胁难民和占主导地位的群体之间的界限；并通过加强团结的信息来加强那些反对特朗普政策和言论的人的联系。我们认为，这项边界工作以直接呼吁动员而告终。我们的研究结果对难民研究、社会运动和框架的学术研究以及那些有兴趣反对有问题的精英框架的人都有意义。