ISBN:
9789004461451
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 215 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004439979
Series Statement:
Chinese overseas 17
Uniform Title:
Illusions et souffrances
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8951/044361
Keywords:
Chinese Case studies Cultural assimilation
;
Chinese Case studies Mental health
;
Chinese Case studies Social conditions
Abstract:
Copyright /Author: Simeng Wang --Foreword /Author: Simeng Wang --Abbreviations /Author: Simeng Wang --Introduction /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 1 From China to France /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 2 The Sufferings of Exile /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 3 Conflicting Matrimonial Norms /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 4 The Disillusions of Illegal Migration /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 5 Abandoned Children, Sacrificed Children /Author: Simeng Wang --Chapter 6 Social Mobility and Mental Suffering /Author: Simeng Wang --Conclusion /Author: Simeng Wang --Bibliography /Author: Simeng Wang --Index of Cases Analysed /Author: Simeng Wang --Index /Author: Simeng Wang.
Abstract:
This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism through which to study Chinese migration in France. It provides new analytical angles and new perspectives on the paradoxical existence and conditions of the migrants, and traces the social links between individuals and societies, objectivity and subjectivity, the real and the imaginary. The ethnographic survey in this study is situated in the context of the transformation of Chinese society over the last forty years. Dr. Wang deconstructs the stereotypes of Chinese people, demonstrates the dynamics of social mobilities and heterogeneous living conditions of Chinese migrants, who experience and narrate happiness as well as pain, joy as well as sorrow, and hope as well as despair. The transversal approach used to analyse the heterogeneity within an ethnic group will be of interest to scholars of migration studies in general
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004461451
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