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

Tran, Émilie; Chuang, Ya Han

doi:10.1111/imig.12627

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“…The last aspect of our analysis on facemasks is the undesirable impacts of maskwearing in the French and UK societies. In France, and particularly in Paris, which concentrates the Chinese diaspora, we have shown in our previous work that the overseas Chinese had already endured discrimination for many years (Chuang et al 2021;Tran and Chuang 2019). Therefore, when they started, as early as in December 2019, to buy face masks and gloves in pharmacies in order to ship them back to mainland China, either to friends and families back home or through e-commerce channels, this only added to their stigma.…”

Section: Legacy: To Wear or Not To Wear? The Mask Dilemma And Racismmentioning

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To Trust or Not to Trust? COVID-19 Facemasks in China–Europe Relations: Lessons from France and the United Kingdom

Tran

Tseng

2022

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At the crossroads of sociology and international relations, this interdisciplinary and comparative research article explores how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted China–Europe relations. Unfolding the critical moments of the COVID-19 outbreak, this article characterizes the evolution of China–Europe relations with regard to the facemask. This simple object of self-protection against the coronavirus strikingly became a source of contention between peoples and states. In the face of this situation, we argue that the facemask is the prism through which to illustrate (1) the transnational links between China and its overseas population, (2) the changing social perceptions of China and Chinese-looking people in European societies, and (3) the advent of China’s health diplomacy and its reception in Europe. Comparing two European settings—France and the United Kingdom (UK)—the common denominator appears to be the reduced trust, if not outright distrust, between individuals and communities in the French and British contexts, and in Sino–French and Sino–British relations at the transnational level. Combining critical juncture theory and (dis)trust in international relations as our analytical framework, this article examines how the facemask became a politicized object, both between states and between Mainland China and its overseas population, as the epidemic unfolded throughout Europe. Adopting a qualitative approach, our dataset comprises the analysis of official speeches and statements; press releases; traditional and social media content (especially through hashtags such as #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus, #IAmNotAVirus, #CoronaRacism, etc.); and interviews with Chinese, French, and British community members.

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Section: Legacy: To Wear or Not To Wear? The Mask Dilemma And Racismmentioning

confidence: 98%

To Trust or Not to Trust? COVID-19 Facemasks in China–Europe Relations: Lessons from France and the United Kingdom

Tran

Tseng

2022

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“…However, the Covid-19 pandemic made anti-Asian racism more visible and prompted more descendants to react. In Europe, the actions carried out by Chinese people to express the differential treatment they experience are no longer limited to demonstrations in public spaces to denounce insecurity (Tran and Chuang 2020), but include calls for testimonies, recourse to rights and legal instruments, with a high level of digital tool use such as WeChat (Wang 2022a). In France, the central role of WeChat in citizen identity formation and, more broadly, in collective action and mobilization among the Chinese population is evident.…”

Section: Chinese Migration To and Within Europe From The 1980s To Pos...mentioning

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Chinese Migration to and within Europe: Continuity and Renewal in the Light of Demographic Factors and the Impact of Covid-19

王

2023

J. Chin. Overseas

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Under the changing demographic effects of Chinese migratory waves in Europe and in the global context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese migratory patterns to Europe as well as the lives of migrants and their descendants in European countries have been renewed since the 2010s, both in material and symbolic or emotional ways. This special issue includes five articles shedding new light on the patterns of Chinese migration to Europe, and on the dynamics of their everyday lives in and beyond the European countries. As the special issue editor, I first argue that Chinese overseas, as an important part of global China, offer a privileged site of study for understanding Chinese society from inside and outside. Then, based on the literature review on Chinese migration to and within Europe from the 1980s to post-2020, I introduce specificities of contemporary Chinese migration to Europe and the Chinese presence in European countries, and highlight four main demographic features: the growth in the population of descendants, the aging of the first-generation migrants, the massive arrival of students and skilled migrants, and the feminization of migration. Thirdly, I provide an overview of the five articles included in this special issue. Finally, I conclude the introduction by underlying the contributions of this volume, the theoretical frameworks that they borrow and consolidate, and new avenues for research opened up by this special issue.

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“…Hitherto, appeals to Chinese abroad to serve as public agents by actively protesting in the streets to assert their civil rights in democratic societies had not been officially encouraged in order to avoid jeopardizing China's diplomatic interests and bilateral relationships (Tran & Chuang, 2020 ). This time, the CCP's willingness to encourage Chinese diasporas to be active agents for its foreign policy goal of rectifying other states’ wrongs against the PRC, including racially motivated attacks, suggests not only the severity of the political repercussions of COVID‐19 as perceived by the Party‐state but also how the Chinese diaspora state succeeded in mobilizing and asserting a strengthened political relationship with the Chinese populations abroad during the crisis situation of the pandemic.…”

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Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy

Ceccagno

Thunø

2022

Global Networks

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We explore how the Chinese diaspora state during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 managed to transform a severe health crisis into a geo‐political opportunity for transnational nation‐building through diaspora governance based on extensive use of social media technologies. By adopting a multi‐scalar perspective, we analyse the intertwined nature of top‐down and bottom‐up processes of the Chinese Party‐state's diaspora mobilization. Based on discourse and ethnographic analysis, we argue that China's diaspora governance exposed a new and strong capacity for extra‐territorial governance. We explore how discursive hegemony, social control and diaspora mobilization were achieved by widely employing the Chinese social media application, WeChat. We also contend that this was facilitated by the Italian government's and media's pro‐China attitudes to emphasize the importance of considering transnational embeddedness when studying the implementation and impact of interactive online technology for diaspora governance in an illiberal political context.

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

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

To Trust or Not to Trust? COVID-19 Facemasks in China–Europe Relations: Lessons from France and the United Kingdom

To Trust or Not to Trust? COVID-19 Facemasks in China–Europe Relations: Lessons from France and the United Kingdom

Chinese Migration to and within Europe: Continuity and Renewal in the Light of Demographic Factors and the Impact of Covid-19

Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy

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