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In the Bullseye of Vigilantes: Mediated Vulnerabilities of Kyrgyz Labour Migrants in Russia
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Abstract Hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz labour migrants seek opportunities in Russia where they fall target to retaliation of vigilante citizens who find offence in the presence of alien labourers in their homeland. Vigilantism also takes place within this migrant ‘community’ where male Kyrgyz labour migran... mehr
Hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz labour migrants seek opportunities in Russia where they fall target to retaliation of vigilante citizens who find offence in the presence of alien labourers in their homeland. Vigilantism also takes place within this migrant ‘community’ where male Kyrgyz labour migrants engage in retaliation on female migrants over perceived offences such as dating non-Kyrgyz men. On several occasions between 2011 and 2016 videos featuring honour beating of female labour migrants by fellow countrymen shook the internet. The selected case illustrates vulnerabilities experienced by migrants due to xenophobia and hostility of the host state, as well as additional layers of vulnerabilities linked to gendered biases that ‘travel’ across borders along with compatriots in migration. The study argues that offline structures, norms, biases, violence, and stigma not only reincarnate online, where they culminate in vigilante acts, but consequently, they re-enter the offline discourse and go through further normalization and justification.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Selbstjustiz; Digitale Medien; Vulnerabilität; Arbeitsmigration; Migrant; Kirgisistan; Russland; Frau; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Ausländerfeindlichkeit
Klassifikation
Migration
soziale Probleme
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
digital divides; digital vigilantism; labour migrants; layers of vulnerabilities
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 230-241
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 7 (2019) 2
Heftthema
Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)