Enclaved Belonging

Ageing Migrants Staying Connected by Consuming Covid-19 Information

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ID3622604
AuthorsEarvin Charles B Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles Cabalquinto (0000-0001-7269-0184, Monash University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume45
Issue3
Pages513-528
Publication date2024-05-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256868.2023.2295491
OpenAlexW4390667004
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited46

This paper critically examines the ways ageing migrants perceive and experience a sense of belonging in a mediascape during the pandemic. It underscores how 15 elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia stayed connected among their networks in and beyond Australia by accessing and consuming COVID-19 information via traditional and digital channels. By analysing the data based on conducting remote interviews in 2020 and 2021, the findings highlight the paradoxical nature of mediated belonging. On the one hand, ageing migrants forged connections at a distance with their familial and social networks by circulating and consuming COVID-19 information. This practice provided ageing migrants an assurance of their safety and their networks. On the other hand, differentiation and racialisation stirred frustrating, polarising and exclusionary-mediated environments. In this case, they deployed connective strategies to negotiate connections and belonging. In sum, this paper reveals the possibilities and politics of mediated belonging fuelled by intersecting structural and technological divides

Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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