New Chinese Migrants in Europe

The Case of the Chinese Community in Hungary

Pál Nyíri (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-32311-7 (ISBN)

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First published in 1999, this book is a political ethnography of recent migration from China to Europe, focusing on migrants’ organizations and the links to China that form the skeleton of a new transnational Chinese community.

First published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the People’s Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift countries and social roles - from student to trader to worker - if doing so is economically expedient. This makes them the natural beneficiaries and users of the Western globalization discourse, even more so that - contrary to culturalist explanations of global Chinese networks - anonymity, sovereign decision making and freedom from social pressures are at least as important in motivating migration as family connections. Yet their identity discourse expresses an authentic Chinese globalization. Chinese migrants see themselves not as local minorities but as a global majority attached to China by a deterritorialised nationalism. This nationalism is not only encouraged by China’s official discourse but also supported by the economic dependence of new migrants on cultural capital built up in China, which makes them less reliant on resources in their countries of residence.

Nyiri Pal is a senior lecturer and director of the Applied Anthropology programme at Macquarie University.

1. The Background: The Migration Scene in China and Conditions in Hungary at the Turn of the Nineties. 2. Formation of the Hungarian Chinese Community, 1989-95. 3. "The Chinese Cannot be a Minority": Consolidating a Community with a Global Discourse. 4. Between New Migrants and the PRC: Negotiating Power and Profit in Chinese Organisations.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 216 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-32311-X / 113832311X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-32311-7 / 9781138323117
Zustand	Neuware