Migration, ethnic relations and Chinese business / Chan Kwok-bun.
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- 0203029518
- 9780203029510
- Canada -- Emigration and immigration
- China -- Emigration and immigration
- Racism -- Canada
- Chinese -- Canada -- Ethnic identity
- Racisme -- Canada
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Chinese -- Ethnic identity
- Emigration and immigration
- Racism
- Canada
- China
- 305.895/1071 22
- JV7225 .C48 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.
Coping with racism -- Ethnic stereotypes in the media -- Ethnic space, displacement and forced relocation -- Coping with ageing and managing identity -- Racial discrimination and social response -- Unemployment, social support and coping -- Adaptation of refugees -- Voluntary associations and ethnic boundaries -- The many faces of immigrant business -- Ethnic resources, opportunity structure and coping strategies -- State, economy, culture and business networks -- Ethnic capitalism -- Singaporeans doing business in China.
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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 emp.
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