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Constructing Space: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris book cover

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Constructing Space A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris

By Wang Chunguang Copyright 2023
176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

Dr. Wang Chunguang is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology and Head of the Social Policy Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include social structure, rural sociology, social mobility, social policies, social governance, society building, social integration of immigrants, and poverty alleviation in rural areas. Dr. Wang is also the author of Social Mobility and Social Reconstruction (1995).

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