In a globalized world where mobility and movement is at its essence, the movement of viruses paradoxically causes a preoccupation with boundaries, containment, and control over borders, and thus keeping the “dangerous” outside separated from the “safe” inside. Through a qualitative thematic and frame analysis of news articles published on 12 Ukrainian news sites, I found that Ukrainian labour migrants conceptually constitute a challenge to such a clear-cut spatial organization in a time of a pandemic. Labour migrants are part of the national “we,” but their presence in the dangerous outside excludes them from the “imagined immunity.” This ambiguity is evident in the way labour migrants were portrayed during the first months of the outbreak in Ukraine. Initially, Ukrainian labour migrants were depicted as a potential danger, and then blamed for bringing the virus back home. However, the framing of the labour migrants as a danger is only part of the story, and the image of a scapegoat was eventually replaced with images of an economic resource and a victim. Thus, Ukrainian labour migrants have been the object of vilification, heroization, as well as empathy during the various phases of the outbreak. I would argue that these shifting frames are connected to the ambiguous conceptualization of Ukrainian labour migrants in general.

在一个以流动性和流动性为本质的全球化世界中，病毒的运动自相矛盾地导致了对边界、遏制和控制边界的关注，从而使外部的“危险”与内部的“安全”分开。通过对 12 家乌克兰新闻网站上发表的新闻文章进行定性主题和框架分析，我发现乌克兰劳工移民在概念上对大流行时期如此清晰的空间组织构成了挑战。劳工移民是国家“我们”的一部分，但他们在危险的外部环境中的存在将他们排除在“想象的豁免权”之外。这种模棱两可的表现在乌克兰疫情爆发最初几个月对劳工移民的描述中显而易见。最初，乌克兰劳工移民被描述为潜在的危险，然后被指责将病毒带回家。然而，将劳务移民视为危险只是故事的一部分，替罪羊的形象最终被经济资源和受害者的形象所取代。因此，在疫情爆发的各个阶段，乌克兰劳工移民一直是诽谤、英雄化和同情的对象。我认为这些转变的框架与一般乌克兰劳工移民的模糊概念有关。以及在爆发的各个阶段的同理心。我认为这些转变的框架与一般乌克兰劳工移民的模糊概念有关。以及在爆发的各个阶段的同理心。我认为这些转变的框架与一般乌克兰劳工移民的模糊概念有关。