Cyberdiscussions on twitter about delivery by venezuelan migrants in times of covid-19

Lovón M.; García A.C. · Politica y Sociedad (2023) · DOI: 10.5209/poso.83354

Resumen

The confinements and estrangements due to the transmission of the coronavirus in 2020 accelerated digital transformations and provoked contradictory behaviors and social reactions. In this framework, this article analyzes the discourses on the delivery service made by Venezuelan migrants during the pandemic and the new normality due to COVID-19 in Lima-Peru and identifies the linguistic resources that cybernauts used in the elaboration of these discourses. Methodologically, this is an interpretative qualitative research that studies a set of tweets mainly from Peruvians and Venezuelans about Venezuelan delivery on Twitter. The article concludes that the delivery service generated two types of discourses: on the one hand, some of discrimination and rejection, which are repeated in Peruvian society and are reflected in cyberspace, and on the other hand, others admiration by Venezuelans, who also highlight the confrontations they go through in the face of the alternative of a job that allows them to survive. Such reasoning is revealed through the linguistic strategies used.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos