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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

The 'Myth of Zero-COVID' Nation: A Digital Ethnography of Expats' Survival Amid Shanghai Lockdown during the Omicron Variant Outbreak.

Benjamin H Nam, Hans-Jörg Luitgar Weber, Yuanyuan Liu, Alexander Scott English

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Benjamin H NamSchool of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201613, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9969-4783
Hans-Jörg Luitgar WeberSchool of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201613, China.
Yuanyuan LiuSchool of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201613, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2216-2954
Alexander Scott EnglishDepartment of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0142-146X

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Abstract

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.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Anthropology, CulturalChinaCommunicable Disease ControlDisease OutbreaksHumansCOVID-19global migrationresiliencesecondary copingsocial media

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PMID35897419
PMCPMC9332489

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