
Constructing Space
A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris
- 166 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index