Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook

This article explores Facebook's role in how Filipino migrants negotiate their diasporic chronotopes, that is, spatio-temporal constructions of their past/homeland and present/hostland. Specifically, focus group and digital ethnographic data with Filipino migrants in Germany are analysed using...

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Published inInternational journal of cultural studies Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 768 - 784
Main Author Umel, Audris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2023
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Communication
Diaspora
Ethnography
Lebenswelt
Mass media effects
Migrants
Social media
Southeast Asian cultural groups
Time
Filipino
chronotope
diaspora
migrants
irony
Facebook
social media
ethnography
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Summary:This article explores Facebook's role in how Filipino migrants negotiate their diasporic chronotopes, that is, spatio-temporal constructions of their past/homeland and present/hostland. Specifically, focus group and digital ethnographic data with Filipino migrants in Germany are analysed using ethnography and discursive psychology approaches. Findings illustrate how Facebook enables Filipinos to re-enact and challenge past/homeland practices, which in turn help create a more meaningful present/hostland life. Facebook further facilitates the capture of conflicting yet socially consequential chronotopes – or irony chronotopes – that traverse and impact both offline and online dimensions of diaspora relations. Capturing such spatio-temporal interplays in migrant realities through social media provides a nuanced and dialogical view into migrants’ lifeworlds, looks beyond the communication role that social media play therein, and contributes to the digital media and temporal turns in diaspora studies.
ISSN:1367-8779
1460-356X
DOI:10.1177/13678779221126538