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ABSTRACT
The objective of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to the successful or unsuccessful integration of the Chinese diaspora in France. There is already a significant amount of literature that probes into the immigrant experiences of various other groups in France. However, the Chinese diaspora in France has remained insufficiently studied. This study aims to address this gap. The main findings of this study are that 1) unsurprisingly, the older the age of arrival, the less well integrated immigrants are in French society, 2) somewhat surprisingly, the less well integrated an immigrant is, the more likely he or she is going to believe that France is a tolerant and open-minded country, and 3) counterintuitively, the more deeply a member of the Chinese diaspora is immersed in French society, the more likely he or she is going to believe that France is hostile to people of Asian heritage.
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Notes
1. Hassell, “Russian Refugees in France and the United States,” 22.
2. Bleich, Race Policy in France.
3. Dorais, “Vietnamese Communities in Canada, France and Denmark,” 112–113.
4. Kozakowski, “Making ‘Mediterranean Migrants’.”
5. Chatterji, “Redefining Boundaries?”
6. Juilliard, ‘Sub-Saharian [sic] immigration in France: from diversity to integration.’
7. See note 2 above.
8. Note: These figures do not take into account French-born descendants of immigrants. The number would be much higher if natural-born French citizens with at least one immigrant parent were included.
9. Brutel, “Les immigrés récemment arrivés en France.”
10. Choe, “African Migration to Europe.”
11. Malgouyres, “The Impact of Chinese Import Competition.”
12. Lem, “Mobilization and disengagement.”
13. Chuang, “Labor Politics and Organizing Strategies in Immigrant-Owned SMEs.”
14. Ji, “Buddhist Groups among Chinese Immigrants in France.”
15. Cao, “Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora.”
16. Zivny, “Liberte, Egalite, Animosite.”
17. Shim, “French National Attacked in China.”
18. Mayer, “Qualitative Research with a Focus on Qualitative Data Analysis,” 53.
19. Monahan and Fisher, “Benefits of ‘Observer Effects’.”
20. Cook, “The Impact of the Hawthorne Effect,” Chapter I.
21. A full list with demographic information and a few brief observations about each of the interviewees is included in Appendix 1.
22. Nakagawa, “Segregation Patterns in Cities.”
23. Yeh, “Age, acculturation, cultural adjustment, and mental health symptoms.”
24. Du, “Assess the Critical Period Hypothesis.”
25. Westcott and Maggio, “Friendship, humour and non-native language.”
26. The ages of the participants at the time of interview will be included in parentheses after their names are introduced for the first time.
27. All quotations are translated from the original language (either French or Chinese) to English by the author. Because the interviews were not recorded, the quotations were written down immediately following the interviews to the best of the author’s ability.
28. See Thiessen, “Living in fear”; and Zhao, “French Asians.”
29. Brutel, “La localisation géographique des immigrés.”
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David K. Tian
David K. Tian is a PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University in the department of political science and will teach as a lecturer at Mongolia International University in the department of international relations. He obtained an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Chicago. His research interests are immigration and emigration, citizenship, and immigrant integration, especially in the context of East Asia.