New Chinese Migrants in Europe

Taylor & Francis

New Chinese Migrants in EuropeThe Case of the Chinese Community in Hungary\nAuthor(s): Pl Nyri\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138323117, 978-1138323117\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the Peoples 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 express.