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

Abstract

The confinements and distancing 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 seventeen 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, discourses of discrimination and rejection, which are repeated in Peruvian society and are reflected in cyberspace, and on the other hand, admiration on the part of Venezuelans, who also highlight the confrontations they face when faced with the alternative of a job that allowed them to survive. Such reasoning is revealed through the linguistic strategies used.