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As China's national image is haunted by its poor human rights records and increasingly assertive foreign policies, the Chinese diaspora has become an important platform for the country's public diplomacy. Since Xi Jinping came to power, the Chinese government has made great efforts to launch soft power campaigns in order to better engage the 50 million overseas Chinese and communicate China's ideas to the outside world. The Xi administration's diaspora engagement policies focus on: (1) indigenising international communication to improve China's national image; (2) jump-starting immigration reform to win the minds and hearts of overseas Chinese; and (3) strengthening education exchanges to shape the diasporic identity of overseas Chinese. Through historical comparisons and policy analyses, this article argues that China's current diaspora engagement policies are based on the Chinese leaders' new vision of public diplomacy, which is approached with soft power strategy. However, due to the limits of Chinese soft power – particularly the lack of political reform and rule of law – the Chinese government will face an uphill battle to attain its long-lasting appeal of soft power and implement its diaspora engagement policies effectively.

© The Author(s) 2019. This article explores two contested concepts: Chinese digital diaspora and social media. It signposts two issues central to the special issue that analyses the roles of digital and social media in the lives of Chinese migrants in Australia, that is, (1) WeChat and other digital platforms in enabling civic participation in Australian socio-economic, cultural, and political lives; (2) the impact of such digital practices on their identity and citizenship.

AbstractIn recent years, the migration rates from both China and India to the U.S. have accelerated. Since 2000 more than a third of foreign-born Chinese and 40% of foreign-born Indians have arrived in that country. This paper will document the evolving patterns of immigration from China and India to the U.S. by tracing the history of immigration and racial discrimination, the dramatic transitions that have occurred since the mid-20th century, and the current demographic and socioeconomic profiles of these two migrant groups.

The Chinese diaspora has been growing since the second half of the nineteenth century. In France, the Chinese immigration from the region of the Wenzhou has intensified since the 1980s. This sub-group of the Chinese diaspora has since rapidly expanded its economic activities. The objective of this thesis is to study the economic, social and spatial organization of Wenzhou migrants in France, manly in the Paris region, and to analyze the economic and social relations that they maintain with China in general and with their region of origin in particular. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the economic "model of Wenzhou" area, as identified and analyzed by the Chinese scholars, and the development of Chinese entrepreneurship in France are closely linked in particular through "Import"of this model in France. The results of our thesis reveal the existence of an original transnational economy connecting France and China, that was supported by the Wenzhou diaspora and that produced a form of "migratory transfer" in each of the two countries. More broadly, the thesis helps to show how the Chinese diaspora in France contributed to the economic development of China, but also how it benefitted from measures included in China's new policy initiated in the early 2000s to consolidate itself. [La version 1 de cette thèse est une version corrigée sur la forme (fautes de frappe, mise en page, etc.) par l'auteur, après le dépôt légal numérique (consultable en version 2).] ; La diaspora chinoise a pris de l'ampleur depuis la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle. En France, la migration de Chinois originaires de la région de Wenzhou, s'est intensifiée depuis les années 1980. Ce sous-groupe de la diaspora chinoise a dès lors rapidement développé ses activités économiques. L'objectif cette thèse consiste à étudier l'organisation économique, sociale et spatiale des migrants de Wenzhou en France, principalement dans la région parisienne, et d'analyser les rapports économiques et sociaux que ceux-ci entretiennent avec la Chine en général et avec leur région d'origine en particulier. L'hypothèse centrale de la thèse est que le « Modèle de Wenzhou » en Chine, tel qu'il est identifié et analysé par les universitaires chinois, et le développement de l'entrepreneuriat chinois issu de Wenzhou en France sont étroitement liés. Pour ce faire, nous interrogerons notamment l'idée d'une « importation » de ce modèle en France. Les résultats de cette thèse permettent de révéler l'existence d'une économie transnationale originale, reliant la France et la Chine, qui a été soutenue par la diaspora Wenzhou et a produit une forme de « transfert migratoire » dans chacun des deux pays. Plus largement, la thèse permet de montrer de quelle manière la diaspora chinoise en France a contribué au développement économique de la Chine et comment elle a pu bénéficier de la nouvelle politique de la Chine initiée au début des années 2000 pour se consolider. [La version 1 de cette thèse est une version corrigée sur la forme (fautes de frappe, mise en page, etc.) par l'auteur, après le dépôt légal numérique (consultable en version 2).]

Summary
Diaspora diplomacy is a fundamental framework for understanding diasporic engagement, the ways in which diasporic communities from the Global South contribute to the political and economic landscapes of their home nations, as well as the role their diasporic advocacy plays in the relationships between home and host nations. However, complex histories of migration and colonialism can complicate the perceived site of the diaspora's diplomacy. Recent publications reflect on the concept of 'multiple worlds' within postcolonial diasporic communities. In this article, I partner diaspora diplomacy with the postcolonial framework of hybridities to trace the shifting roles of Chinese Jamaican institutions as diasporic diplomats over time. I explore how these organisations both navigate and reinvent themselves within the diverse formations of Chinese identity that endure within the Chinese diasporic 'periphery', changing local and Chinese geopolitics and their own positionality within a primarily Black, postcolonial nation.

This book examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diaspora studies internationally. It will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Sociology, Ethnic Studies, International Politics, and Migration Studies

AbstractThis paper explores the (re)imaginings of the past by Chinese Americans and their families who came as part of the Hong Kong Chinese diaspora before 1997. Hong Kong is a locale often described as being conflicted with "the politics of disappearance", but the Hong Kong Chinese diaspora provides a rich perspective into complex and nuanced tensions between central and peripheral linguistic and cultural imperialistic fields across time. Drawing upon the sociological work of transnational migration and belonging in Hong Kong, this research explores the discourses of Hong Kong émigrés and their young adult and adult children as they discuss their immigration stories, imaginings, and reimaginings of a colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong. The paper focuses on intergenerational conveyance of imagined identities across contexts and languages.

1. Revisiting the Vietnamese refugee era : an Asian perspective from Hong Kong / Yuk Wah Chan -- 2. Rethinking the Vietnamese exodus : Hong Kong in comparative perspective / David W. Haines -- 3. The boat people crisis of 1978-1979 and the Hong Kong experience examined through the ethnic Chinese dimension / Ramses Amer -- 4. In search of the history of the Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-75 / Li Tana -- 5. The Vietnamese minority : boat people settlement in Hong Kong / Yuk Wah Chan and Terence C.T. Shum -- 6. Vietnamese youth and their adaptation in Hong Kong / Ocean W.K. Chan -- 7. Thanh loc : Hong Kong's refugee screening system : experiences from working for the refugee communities / Peter Hansen -- 8. Visions of resistance and survival from Hong Kong detention camps / Daniel C. Tsang -- 9. Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong : visual images and stories / Sophia Suk-Mun Law -- 10. Sojourn in Hong Kong, settlement in America : experiences of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees / Jonathan H.X. Lee -- 11. Dark tourism, diasporic memory and disappeared history : the contested meaning of the former Indochinese refugee camp at Pulau Galang / Ashley Carruthers and Boitran Huynh-Beattie -- 12. The repatriated : from refugee migration to marriage migration / Yuk Wah Chan.

The idea of the 'nation' is a Western concept which has been applied to Southeast Asia. It is a project which has been in progress since the last century but is still incomplete. Various theoretical frameworks which are associated with nation and nation-building in the Southeast Asian region have been briefly dealt with. The book aims to examine the making of the nations in Southeast Asia using both historical and political science approaches. Concepts related to nation such as ethnicity, state, indigenism and citizenship have also been analysed in the Southeast Asian context. Specific examples of nation-building in five major Southeast Asian countries are presented. Problems and prospects of Southeast Asia's nation-building and citizenship building in the era of globalisation are also discussed

Migration Policy Centre ; In the first chapter of this report we outline the main changes in the Chinese migration order since roughly 1980. In the second chapter we turn to a discussion of Chinese emigration and settlement in Europe (by which we mainly refer to the EU countries) and Africa (mainly sub-Saharan Africa), whose similarities and contrasts help us highlight the range of permutations in recent emigration from China. The third chapter turns to China's administration, management and institutional and legal framework for dealing with the many different Chinese migratory flows and their ramifications for China, both domestically and for its rising global presence. Chapter 4 is a brief conclusion including some reflections on future trends. ; The MPC is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

"With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy, there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations, the development of new (global and hybrid) Chinese identities, and the creation of new (political, economic and social) inspirations through their mobile lives. This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends of migration movements of the Chinese, including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration, this volume offers novel insights to enrich our undiferstanding of Asian mobility in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book will be of interest to academics examining migration, mobility, diaspora, Chinese identity, overseas Chinese studies and Asian diaspora studies."--Provided by publisher

The article examines specifics of integration of the Chinese diaspora into French society. The author identifies several Chinese communities, differing by the place of origin, such as «Indo-Chinese community» (from Southern Vietnam), «Wenzhou» (county in Zhejiang province), «Dongbei» (from the region of the same name of the PRC). The study reveals the influence of «push» («exodus» from Vietnam) and «pull» to the country of immigration («Wenzhou» and «Dongbei» communities) factors. The paper investigates social heterogeneity of the diaspora, from the «artisan proletariat» and small merchants to wholesalers and financiers. The author analyzes common features originating in cultural identity. The importance of ethno-cultural characteristics in the integration of the Chinese and their success (as a «model minority») is emphasized. The paper discusses the nature of anti-Chinese sentiments in French society (ressentiment). Using the case study of the Chinese diaspora, the author raises the question of the possibility of multicultural integration in contemporary France.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Same and Different -- Introduction -- Evolution of Chinese Identity -- What is Valued? -- Historical Setting: Beginnings of the Chinese Diaspora -- Why a Chinese School? And Why Evergreen? -- Hermeneutics -- The Other: Informant or Anthropologist? -- Philosophical Thought and Religion -- The Ghost of China Past -- A Conscious Choice of Identity -- Identity Claimed-Not Merely Inherited -- Do We Care What People Think of Us? -- The Evergreen Youth Club -- Parents Trying to Raise Chinese Kids in the West -- Conclusion -- Are You a Different Chinese in Houston? -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes that a new paradigm of socio-economic development is gaining importance for Cuba and Mexico. Despite their contrasting political ideologies, both countries must build new forms of trust among the state, society, and resident Chinese diaspora communities if they are to harness the potentials of China's rise. Combining political and economic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, Hearn analyzes Cuba's and Mexico's historical relations with China, and highlights how Chinese diaspora communities are now deepening these ties. Theorizing trust as an alternative to existing models of exchange—which are failing to navigate the world's shifting economic currents—Hearn shows how Cuba and Mexico can reformulate the balance of power between state, market, and society. A new paradigm of domestic development and foreign engagement based on trust is becoming critical for Cuba, Mexico, and other countries seeking to benefit from China's growing economic power and social influence.

This article provides a critical review of archaeological research that addresses race and racism in Chinese American communities. Future directions for Chinese diaspora archaeologies include employing an Asian American studies praxis that centers community-engaged research, using diasporic frameworks, and applying emic language to naming material culture and identities. Other innovative archaeological scholarship on the racialization of Chinese Americans reframes Chinese American communities as part of larger multiethnic neighborhoods, highlights gender and sexuality, and traces the transpacific connections of Chinese transmigrants. The interventions outlined provide archaeologists who are engaged in the study of the Chinese American past with the pathways needed to begin practicing antiracist Chinese diaspora archaeologies.