Throughout Iceland's years of economic boom and the financial crisis in 2008, many Lithuanian migrants felt a sense of exclusion and hostility. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, these notions were different, and we argue that the use of digital platforms played an essential role in creating sociality among some members of the Lithuanian community and generating a feeling of Lithuanians as a part of Icelandic society. Our article points at the changed role of the Lithuanian association in Iceland established partly to counteract prejudice toward Lithuanians in Iceland but gaining a new role during the pandemic in generating information and posting it on their Facebook page. They thus took part in the digital sociality of migrants and non-migrants that was important during these times in Iceland.
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Cicėnaitė et al. (2024) studied this question.