My research aims to understand the affective life of Chinese diasporas in the UK during and after COVID-19. The PhD project attends to the emotionally intensive ways in which migrant bodies, ordinary feelings and life (his)stories have been connected and shaped by technologies, policies and politics of the country’s pandemic management practices, thereby contributing to critical studies of crisis, governance and migration through an affective lens. Methodologically, it does so by facilitating alternative modes of narrating life during the pandemics using methods such life history interviewing and digital ethnography.