书目名称 | The Migration of Chinese Women to Mexico City |
编辑 | Ximena Alba Villalever |
视频video | |
概述 | Queries how Chinese migrant women in Mexico City´s popular markets forge their own ways of participation in global processes.Sheds light on the ways in which Chinese women in Mexico City appropriate a |
丛书名称 | Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | 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... |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Chinese women and migration; Urban anthropology; Migration to Mexico City; Mexican popular markets; Glob |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53344-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-53346-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-53344-1Series ISSN 2946-4277 Series E-ISSN 2946-4285 |
issn_series | 2946-4277 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |