The language of political incorporation : Chinese migrants in Europe / Amy H. Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Amy H., author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Political activity--Europe, Eastern.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Social networks--Europe, Eastern.

Lingua francas--Europe, Eastern.

Lingua francas.

Chinese--Europe, Eastern.

Chinese.

Immigrants--Social networks.

Immigrants--Political activity.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1.1. Languages and Migrant Networks

1.2. The Political Incorporation of Migrants

1.3. The Chinese in Central-Eastern Europe

1.4. Contributions

1.5. Plan of the Book

2. A Theory about Languages and Migrant Networks

2.1. Importance of Migrant Networks for Political Incorporation

2.2. Languages, Subnationalism, and Transnationalism

2.3. A Tale of Two Migrant Networks

2.4. The Effects of Migrant Network Types

2.5. Discussion

3. The Chinese of Central-Eastern Europe

3.1. Why Central-Eastern Europe?

3.2. From China to Central-Eastern Europe

3.3. The Chinese Communities in Central-Eastern Europe

3.4. Discussion

4. Survey Evidence from Central-Eastern Europe

4.1. Case Selection

4.2. Survey Design

4.3. Measurement: Migrant Network

4.4. Measurement: Political Incorporation

4.5. Measurement: Alternative Explanations

4.6. Empirical Evidence

4.7. Linguistic-Based Migrant Networks or Networks of a Different Kind?

4.8. Discussion

4.9. Appendix: How to Survey Migrants

5. Political Incorporation amidst Right-Wing Nationalism in Hungary

5.1. The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism

5.2. The Chinese Exception

5.3. Political Incorporation across Three Waves

5.4. Alternative Explanations

5.5. Discussion: Observable Implications for Chinese Identification

5.6. Appendix: Coding for the Chinese in Newspapers

6. Tax Collection and Political Incorporation: A Natural Experiment in Romania

6.1. Treatment Effect: The ANAF Tax Fraud Sweep

6.2. The Moderating Effects of Migrant Network Type

6.3. Isolating the Causal Mechanism

6.4. Implications

7. Beyond the Chinese: The Muslims in Central-Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective

7.1. The History of Muslims in CEE

7.2. Case Selection

7.3. Bonding Networks among Migrants from the Middle East and North Africa

7.4. Effects of Migrant Network Types on Political Incorporation

7.5. Comparing Migrants from the Middle East and North Africa to the Chinese

7.6. Discussion

8. Beyond Central-Eastern Europe: The Chinese in Western Europe in Comparative Perspective

8.1. The Chinese in Western Europe

8.2. Research Design: Portugal

8.3. Political Incorporation: Bridging versus Bonding Networks

8.4. Comparing the Chinese in Portugal and Central-Eastern Europe

8.5. Discussion

9. Implications: Local Attitudes towards the Chinese (and Other Out-Groups)

9.1. Explaining Local Attitudes towards the Chinese

9.2. Public Attitudes across Central-Eastern Europe in 2014

9.3. Beyond the Chinese: Attitudes Towards Other Out-Groups

9.4. Discussion

10. Implications: Best Practices

10.1. Promoting Lingua Francas

10.3. Incentivizing Dispersed Settlements

10.4. Maintaining Regularized, Positive Channels of Communication.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Liu, Amy H. Language of political incorporation

ISBN:

1439920141

9781439920145

Publisher Number:

40030723793

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