Full Description
The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers. This volume opens up and delineates this new field of European overseas Chinese studies, reporting on pioneering research on the Chinese in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, and exploring the networks, self-organizations, and migration patterns that are the fabric of the Chinese community in Europe, together with the issues of identity, language, integration, and community building that Chinese throughout the continent face.
Contents
Preface; G.Benton - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; F.N.Pieke - PART 1: CHINESE AND EUROPE - Transnational Links Among the Chinese in Europe: A Study on European-wide Chinese Voluntary Associations; L.Minghuan - Chinese Identity in Europe; F.Christiansen - PART 2: CHINESE IN WESTERN EUROPE - Chinese People in Britain: Histories, Futures and Identities; D.Parker - The Chinese Community in France: Immigration, Economic Activity, Cultural Organization and Representations; L.Yu-Sion - The Chinese in the Netherlands; F.N.Pieke & G.Benton - Chinese in Denmark; M.Thuno - A Sketch of Chinese Community in Germany: Past and Present; E.Gutinger -PART 3: CHINESE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE - The Chinese in Spain; J.B.Antolin - Entrepreneurs of the Chinese Community in Portugal; A.Teixeira - The Chinese in Italy: Dimensions and Structural Characteristics; F.Carchedi & M.Ferri - PART 3: CHINESE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE - Chinese in Russia: An Historical Perspective; A.G.Larin - Chinese Immigration to Russia: A Variation on an Old Theme; A.de Tinguy - Chinese Immigrants in Central and Eastern Europe: The Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania - New Migrants, New Community: The Chinese in Hungary, 1989-95; P.Nyiri - Index
