#11929. ‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist message. By creating broader visibility and wider reach of racist texts and facilitating more participation for racists, social media platforms such as Twitter normalize gendered and place-based racialization of refugees. Recently, hostility and hate became the norm in derogating the refugee identity on social media platforms. To investigate the complexity of digital racism, this article presents a unique case study on Twitter, capturing the widespread user reactions in the aftermath of the mass resettlement. It examines varying racialization of Twittersphere, using sentiment and qualitative content analyses of hashtags and mentions on citiznes, when they hit Twitter trends for mundane events.
Keywords:
anonymity; Digital place-making; digital racism; gendered racialization; online anti-refugee; sentiment analysis; Twitter

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