Webinar - Meetings on Studies on China

An intergenerational perspective on transnational mobility between China and Spain

Speaker

Irene Masdeu

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Commentary

Martina Bofulin

Slovenian Migration Institute, Slovenia

Abstract

After four decades of continuous migration flows of Chinese people to Spain, Chinese migrants’ descendants in their youth and adult ages are taking an increasingly relevant role in the transnational context between the two countries. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted in Barcelona, Qingtian and Shanghai, this talk will examine return mobilities, transnational practices and identity change form an intergenerational perspective.

Migrants’ descendants undertake practices and relationship with their parents’ country of origin that change throughout their live course. First, we will talk about the transnational socialization process during the childhood and adolescence and their relationship with the villages of origin of their parents. Secondly, we will focus on the mobilities when they are adults, which respond to the logic of the new mobilities and migration flows from Europe to China.

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https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/88549055011

Meeting ID: 885 4905 5011

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