Constructing Space

A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-38482-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: China Perspectives

This book presents the findings of a ten-year longitudinal study on the experience of Chinese immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris. The author examines the impact of the evolving spaces people from Wenzhou have built for themselves in the French capital, both within immigrant communities and French society at large.

The study discovers that over the course of a decade, immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris have experienced notable changes in the industries they work in, where they live, their organizational structure, how they interact with one another, and their inter-generational dynamics. This book investigates four specific spaces: economic, social, cultural, and policy-related, all of which emerge from immigrants’ integration into local society and in turn impact their own integration. The author aims to reveal the paths and mechanisms of the community and how their social spaces have been constructed while the production mechanism of society from the theoretical point of view is also explored.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and East Asian Studies. It will also be an essential reading for those who are interested in Chinese immigration in general.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chunguang, Wang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Immigration Problem in France 2. "Building" the Market and Parasitic Growth 3. Transnational and Ethnic Competition and Cooperation 4. Sociality and Social Space 5. Cultural Space: Seeking Roots and Faith 6. Policy Space: The Construction of Boundaries 7. Elastic Space and Social Integration

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Wang Chunguang is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology and Head of the Social Policy Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include social structure, rural sociology, social mobility, social policies, social governance, society building, social integration of immigrants, and poverty alleviation in rural areas. Dr. Wang is also the author of Social Mobility and Social Reconstruction (1995).