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Lectures on the Chinese Diaspora - 19 and 23 June 2008

Ms Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hong Kong, author of At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings (2008), Volontary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora (2006), Chinese Woman and their Cultural and Network Capitals (2004)

She will give two lectures in Paris:

Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns, EHESS, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75007 Paris
19 June 2008 2.00-4.00 pm

Internet as Social Capital and Social Network: Cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai Woimen, Ûniversité Paris Diderot, UFR LCAO, Bâtiment des Grands Moulins, 16 rue Marguerite Duras, 75013 Paris (Aile C, 4th floor, Room 481)
23 June 2008, 10.00 am -12.00 noon

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Who is a migrant in today’s world?

A migrant is:

- a man, a woman, a child
- who leaves his or her country of birth
- and lives in another country.

The migrant is not defined by the reason for his or her departure, nor by the length of time spent abroad, but by the fact that he or she now lives in a different country.

Examples:

- an Angolan lorry driver in Spain
- a Moroccan maid in Sweden
- a Chinese restaurant owner in Chile
- an Indian construction worker in Dubai
- a Qatari boy attending school in the United Kingdom
- a Japanese engineer in Kenya
- a Australian aid worker in Namibia
- an Albanian refugee in Denmark
- an Ugandan doctor in Thailand
- an Ethiopian child adopted by a European family
- a Senegalese woman living clandestinely in France
- a Nigerian peacekeeper in Senegal, Darfur, or Chad
- an American student in Italy
- a Beninois teacher in South Africa
- an Iranian asylum seeker in Canada
- a Malaysian dress designer in Paris
- a Brazilian harbourmaster in Panama
- a Montenegran prostitute in Poland ... the list is endless.

 

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