La colère du middleman : quand la communauté chinoise se manifeste

Abstract

Depuis 2010, la communauté chinoise de Paris s’est mobilisée à plusieurs reprises contre les violences et les meurtres dont plusieurs de ses membres ont été victimes. En quelques années, elle a construit un répertoire d’actions collectives, reflet de la formation d’une conscience communautaire. Emergence d’une jeunesse familière des médias français ; prise de conscience de la nature raciste, appelant une réaction antiraciste, des agressions ; réinterprétation, voire subversion du mot d’ordre de « sécurité » ont permis la maturation d’une nouvelle génération militante soucieuse de se réapproprier les valeurs républicaines pour combattre les discriminations.

Social Relays of China’s Power Projection? Overseas Chinese Collective Actions for Security in France

“…), and media analysis (Chuang, ). The second sequence (August 2016 ‐ April 2017) includes participative observation during street demonstrations, informal discussions with the stakeholders and two formal interviews with the demonstrations’ organizers (Chuang, ). In summer 2018, the authors conducted four follow‐up interviews with the presidents of entrepreneurs’ associations, in order to clarify the role of the Chinese embassy in Paris in these collective actions.…”

Wang Simeng, Illusions et souffrances: Les migrants chinois à Paris (Illusions and suffering: Chinese migrants

“…3 The characteristics, economic activities, and socio-cultural practices of Chinese communities have figured in a number of studies, 4 reflecting the changes within this diaspora, long seen as close-knit, industrious, and discreet, but which early this decade began raising its voice during demonstrations to affirm its existence and demand its rights. 5 Far from the din and dust of marches and rallies by Chinese people and French citizens of Chinese origin, Wang Simeng unveils a little known aspect of Chinese immigration in France, which behind the scenes consists of bitter illusions and mental distress. Wang's book, the fruit of four years of ethnographic study in Paris and nearby suburbs conducted in pursuance of a doctoral thesis, "outlines a socio-genesis of Chinese migrants' suffering, starting with their social characteristics, conditions of existence, and recent changes among a people in the throes of transformation" (p. 163).…”