Kurbatov V.I., Volkov Yu.G. Social Cohesion Of Migrants:Manifestation In Social Networksin The Context Of Global Social Changes. Bulletin of the South-Russian State Technical University (NPI) Series Socio-Economic Sciences, 13(6), 69–80.

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Abstract

The purpose of the research is to identify and analyze the factors and trends in the formation and development of social cohesion of migrants. The methodological basis of the research is system methods for evaluating messages in migrant social networks that are becoming migrant social media, methods of network analysis, methods of mass media practices and migrant rhetoric in public materials, by highlighting, comparing, evaluating and conceptualizing trends in the transformation of migration processes under the influence of global changes, including those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as methods of discursive analysis of migrant discourse presented in analytical materials. Research results. This article discusses the social cohesion of migrants, which is formed as an addition to ethnic cohesion as a result of a decrease in the level of trust among migrants in the host society and state in the context of global social changes, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrants who find themselves in this situation the least protected social strata form inter-ethnic social cohesion as a form of self-organization of ethnic communities in times of crisis. The social cohesion of migrants is reflected in mass media practices, online information interaction, and scientific analytical materials that assess factors that trigger new trends in the migration process, such as the growth of xenophobic, migrant-phobic, and racist attitudes among a part of the population of host countries, restrictions on the mobility of international migrants, and increased competition between migrants and the indigenous population for jobs. Among the new trends in the migration process should be attributed the strengthening of transnational attitudes and actions of migrants, which are expressed in mass protest, human rights and humanitarian movements, as well as in the massive movement of social connections and relations of migrants from the « offline » to the « online » sphere, to the social networks, into the digital emigrant diasporas, into the sphere of digital mass media practices. Research perspective. These trends, although they are ambiguous, may become the basis of migration policy of national States and the subject of sociological research in the future.