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Author Liu, Amy H., author

Title The language of political incorporation : Chinese migrants in Europe / Amy H. Liu
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021

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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
Summary "Examines the political incorporation of migrants and argues that those who use a lingua franca are more likely to be in diverse bridging networks, which are often associated with greater political incorporation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Immigrants -- Political activity -- Europe, Eastern
Immigrants -- Social networks -- Europe, Eastern
Lingua francas -- Europe, Eastern
Chinese -- Europe, Eastern
Chinese
Immigrants -- Political activity
Immigrants -- Social networks
Lingua francas
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020020846
ISBN 1439920141
9781439920145