Ethnic and racial discrimination against Chinese people in Portugal before and during the emergence of COVID- 19

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Margarida Reis Carvalho Miranda
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27464
• topic: Discriminação -- Discrimination; COVID-19; Chinese migration; Portugal; Resistance; Migração chinesa; Resistência

This dissertation focuses on the discrimination and racism experienced by Chinese migrants of different sociodemographic categories (first-generation immigrants, international students, and Chinese descendants) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses this group’s increasing awareness of and resistance to racial discrimination in Portuguese society using qualitative research methods (semi-structured interviews) to examine parallels between Chinese people’s experiences living in Portugal in these two periods. Due to the significant role that the news media and activists have played in the social construction of the anti-Asian hate movement, important qualitative data from these sources are also analyzed. This study demonstrates how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the different ways discrimination and racism are experienced by people of Chinese origin. The pandemic has brought new attention to cases of discrimination against this community and has inspired Chinese immigrants (especially descendants) to resist and identify racism as well as take a more active role in fighting it.