School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201613, China.
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 25;19(15):9047. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159047.
This study presents a digital ethnography of expats' survival amid the Shanghai lockdown during the Omicron variant outbreak. This study drew insights from studies on resilience and secondary coping within the context of global migration to comprehend the diverse emotional challenges faced by expats in a series of lockdowns and persistent nucleic acid amplification tests. Thus, this study asks what the major emotional challenges expats faced and what sources of social support they could draw from citizens in their host country during the Shanghai lockdown. Accordingly, this study collected WeChat group conversations to draw empirical findings, promoted scholarly conversations about fundamental survival necessity, and traced the process for establishing intercultural collective resilience with citizens from their host country. Overall, this study emphasized the significance of host country members who can promote certain coping mechanisms for their visitors in the specific regional and geographical context of China.
本研究通过数字民族志的方法，对奥密克戎变异株疫情期间上海封控期间外籍人士的生存状况进行了研究。本研究借鉴了关于韧性和二级应对的研究成果，结合全球移民背景，深入了解外籍人士在一系列封控和持续核酸检测中所面临的多样化情感挑战。因此，本研究探讨了外籍人士在上海封控期间面临的主要情感挑战是什么，以及他们可以从东道国公民那里获得哪些社会支持。相应地，本研究收集了微信群组对话，以获取实证发现，促进了关于基本生存需求的学术讨论，并追溯了与东道国公民建立跨文化集体韧性的过程。总的来说，本研究强调了东道国成员的重要性，他们可以在中国特定的区域和地理背景下，为来访者提供一定的应对机制。
