It diverges from conventional research design, which often examines students’ integration experience in the destination country by concentrating on the pre-migration decision making process and the reincorporation of young returnees into Chinese society. This research represents an innovative comparative study of Chinese student migration to three countries: the United States, South Korea and Italy in order to uncover the diversification of motivations, channels, and goals in middle class families’ transnational mobility choices.
Existing literature on international student migration either focuses on one specific destination or lumps all destination countries together as the developed world. It identifies a new trend of student migration from China, whose goal is not to obtain citizenship in the developed world, but to become more competitive in an increasingly globalized Chinese job market. This research unpacks the relationship between transnational student migration and middle class Chinese families’ anxieties over social reproduction within the context of China’s rise as a global economic power and the privatization of the country’s higher educational system. Transnational student mobility and the politics of social reproduction in post-socialist China How are multiple versions of whiteness produced, interpreted, negotiated, and performed through daily life interactions between white migrants and Chinese in various social and personal settings? How is whiteness racialized in relation to blackness and other immigrant minority identities in multiple social domains and at different geographical scales?ģ. What are the symbolic and material advantages and disadvantages of being white in China’s thriving market economy and consumer culture?Ģ. Three major research questions frame this project.ġ. (4) transnational business and entrepreneurship (3) the media, fashion, and entertainment industries (2) the ESL industry (teaching English as a second language) (1) state policy regarding international migrants in China Multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnographic research will be conducted on daily life encounters between various groups of white migrants and Chinese in five domains: The rising number of middle- and lower-stratum of white migrants in China deserves special attention due to substantial tensions and discrepancies in their experiences of racial privilege, economic insecurity, and legal vulnerability. Existing literature on white westerners in Asia mainly focuses on transnational elites. It examines the multiple and contradictory constructions of whiteness in China as a result of the rapid diversification of white migrants in the country and the shifting power balances between China and the West. This project is funded by the European Research Council (consolidator grant). The reconfiguration of whiteness in China: Privileges, precariousness, and racialized performances (CHINAWHITE, 2019-2024) Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Multiculturalism and colorblindness, and class differentiations within theĬhinese American community. Racial ideology, the negative influence of prevalent U.S. Of the Black and white racial binary, the transnational circulation of U.S. Personal choice, but is conditioned by structural factors such as the limitation The bookĪrgues that Chinese immigrant workers’ racial learning is not always a matter of Immigrant workers’ daily struggles to cope with the disjuncture between race asĪn American ideological construct and race as a lived experience. Through thick ethnographic descriptions, Lan explores Chinese Transnational labor migration and the multiracial transformation of urban U.S. Situating the Chinese immigrant experience within the larger context of
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