ISBN:
9781137400239
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (356 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Johanson, Graeme Chinese Migration to Europe : Prato, Italy, and Beyond
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Chinese Migration to Europe -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Chinese Migration to the New Europe: The Case of Prato -- Introduction -- Historical context -- Prato as a European integration litmus test -- Chapter overview -- Notes -- Part I: Chinese in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Disjunctures and Continuities -- 2: The Chinese in Prato and the Current Outlook on the Chinese-Italian Experience -- Chinese migration to Italy in perspective: Historical background and current trends of social change
Abstract:
A new phase in Chinese migration to Italy: A dwindling inflow of migrants, a growing ethnic minority -- Moving into neighbourhood-scale small business -- The rise of a Chinese fast fashion industrial district in Prato -- Explaining the exceptional development of the Chinese in Prato -- Getting closer? The changing social and economic identity of the Chinese-Italians -- Notes -- 3: Migrants of Chinese Origin in France: Economic and Social Integration -- Formation of the Chinese diaspora -- The coolie trade as a starting point of a mass migration
Abstract:
Qingtian and Wenzhou, a 'spontaneous' migration mainly centred on Europe -- Migration organised as an entrepreneurial diaspora -- Specificities of Chinese immigration in France -- Zhejiang immigration -- Southeast Asian Chinese immigration -- The present situation -- How many ethnic Chinese are in France? -- The 'ethnic Chinese economic device' and integration -- The ethnic labour market as main path for economic integration -- The diversification of the ethnic Chinese economic device -- The development of import trade
Abstract:
The difficulties of the ethnic Chinese economic device to absorb new migration -- The great vulnerability of new migrants -- Social integration and relations with French society -- Prato and Paris compared? 'Pronto moda' and the 'Sentier system' -- 'Le système Sentier' (the 'Sentier system') -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: The British Chinese: A Typical Trajectory of 'Integration'? -- Introduction -- The history of Chinese migration to Britain -- Contemporary settlement and integration -- Diasporic links and British Chinese websites -- Belonging and the assertion of public ethnicity
Abstract:
Should BBCs have ties to China and Hong Kong? -- Conclusion: Is the British case in any way typical? -- Note -- Part II: Chinese in Prato: Integration and Inclusion -- 5: The 'Chinese Deviant': Building the Perfect Enemy in a Local Arena -- The industrial district of Prato and the Chinese presence -- Critical issues -- The 'Chinese siege' and the break-up of the local model of governance -- Building the perfect enemy -- The intentional exaggeration of 'ethnic' and 'cultural' matters -- The exaltation of the past and the invention of 'Pratesità'
Abstract:
Manipulation of language and self-victimising representations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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