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Migration, Ethic Relations and Chinese Business (Chinese Worlds)

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0415369274, 9780415369275, 9780203029510
LCC
JV7225 .C48 2005
Open Library ID
OL22635976M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1143657 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
208\209
Topic
Business
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence mechanisms Chinese migrants have created in order to escape the systemic and institutionalized discrimination they face. In particular, the book analyzes Chinese entrepreneurship, arguing that it is a collective response to blocked opportunities in host societies. Drawing upon empirical and theoretical literature on the sociology of race and ethnic relations, the book stresses the variety in Chinese culture and its ability to exploit an emergent ethnicity as individuals, groups and communities.

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