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The Migration of Chinese Women to Mexico City

The Migration of Chinese Women to Mexico City

Alba Villalever, Ximena

Hardcover

Series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections Between Latin America and Asia

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3030533433
ISBN13: 9783030533434
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 281
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
​This book focuses on the migration strategies of Chinese women who travel to Mexico City in search of opportunities and survival. Specifically, it explores the experiences and contributions of women who have placed themselves within the local and conflictive networks of Mexico City s downtown street markets (particularly in Tepito), where they work as suppliers and petty vendors of inexpensive products made in China (specifically in Yiwu). Street markets are the vital nodes of Mexican popular economy (economía popular), but the people that work and live among them have a long history of marginalization in relation to formal economic networks in Mexico City. Despite the difficult conditions of these spaces, in the last three decades they have become a new source of economic opportunities and labor market access for Chinese migrants, particularly for women. Through their commerce, these migrants have introduced new commodities and new trade dynamics into these markets, which are thereby transformed into alternative spaces of globalization.

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