Struggling in Im/mobility: Discursive Practices of Macao’s Mainland Chinese Migrant Labourers’ Moments on WeChat during Covid-19

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	Struggling in Im/mobility: Discursive Practices of Macao’s Mainland Chinese Migrant Labourers’ Moments on WeChat during Covid-19
	Ju, B.; Dai, H. M.; Sandel, T. L.
Source Publication	Communication, Culture & Critique
ISSN	1753-9129
Abstract	The coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19) has led to drastic changes in social life. Focusing on a group of essential workers, this study examines how mainland Chinese labour migrants discursively manifest their everyday lives via WeChat Moments. From analysing social media posts and interview data, this study demonstrates how these labour migrants’ stay in Macao was a period of unsought and undesired time of waiting, impacted by socio-structural constraints of class, age, gender, and outsider (China mainland) identity. Participants experienced positive (newfound opportunities) and negative emotions (anxiety and entrapment). WeChat Moments was an important coping tool for migrant workers as they built a sense of community virtually and face-to-face. Finally this study contributes to understandings of border-crossing as interpreted and experience via social media discourse.
Keyword	Gender and minority empowerment Gender and representation Immigrants/immigration information communication technologies representation
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	57667
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
Corresponding Author	Ju, B.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Ju, B.,Dai, H. M.,Sandel, T. L.. Struggling in Im/mobility: Discursive Practices of Macao’s Mainland Chinese Migrant Labourers’ Moments on WeChat during Covid-19[J]. Communication, Culture & Critique.
APA	Ju, B.., Dai, H. M.., & Sandel, T. L. Struggling in Im/mobility: Discursive Practices of Macao’s Mainland Chinese Migrant Labourers’ Moments on WeChat during Covid-19. Communication, Culture & Critique.
MLA	Ju, B.,et al."Struggling in Im/mobility: Discursive Practices of Macao’s Mainland Chinese Migrant Labourers’ Moments on WeChat during Covid-19".Communication, Culture & Critique .

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