新冠感染疫情下西方排外主义的发展态势与走向——基于国外文本讨论的海外华人问题评析

Xenophobia Under COVID-19:A Summary for the Study of Overseas Chinese

新型冠状病毒感染疫情是人类进入21世纪以来全球公共卫生领域面临的最大威胁,疫情带来的影响已经深刻地改变了人们的生活。在20世纪90年代以来西方本土主义复苏的加持下,与新冠感染疫情有关的排外主义加剧了现有的族裔歧视,对全世界的移民与少数族裔群体产生了深远影响。疫情的政治化、标签化使得中国在国际舆论场中受到了污蔑,海外华人则处于这场污名化的风口浪尖。通过考察疫情视角下国外学界开展的海外华人研究,探讨新冠疫情下的排外主义形式,有助于对未来一段时间排外主义的发展趋势进行初步的预测。

COVID-19, which has had a profound impact on people’s lives, is one of the most serious threats to global public health in the 21st century. With the revival of nativism in the West since the 1990s, xenophobia related to the epidemic of COVID-19 has intensified the existing discrimination and had a far-reaching impact on immigrants and ethnic minorities across the world. As a result of the politicization and labeling of the epidemic, China has been stigmatized in the field of international public opinion, while overseas Chinese are at the forefront of this stigmatization carnival. This paper aims to summarize the study of overseas Chinese from the perspective of an epidemic situation, summarize the forms of xenophobia during the COVID-19 epidemic situation, and further predict the development trend of xenophobia in the future.