WeChat as migration infrastructure: the case of Chinese-Russian precarious labour markets

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
WeChat as migration infrastructure: the case of Chinese-Russian precarious labour markets
Original language description
This chapter examines the informal migrant labour markets between China and Russia. It compares the uses of WeChat among Chinese migrants to Russia, and Russian migrants to China, respectively. In doing so, we examine how WeChat design and regulatory frameworks have conditioned or constrained these trans-border labour migrants in maximising economic opportunities. We argue that while WeChat allows Chinese users to benefit from WeChat platform affordances to stay connected with home and accumulate market power, it “coerces” Russian labour migrants to live in a Chinese world and operate in “the Chinese way,” and as a result weakens their social ties to their homeland (Russia). This discussion identifies the tension between top-down forces like nation-states in managing migrants through the deployment of digital technologies on the one hand, and the agency of migrants in their trans-border mobility and transcultural adaptation processes through the use of digital platforms and applications, on the other.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora. Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
ISBN
978-0-367-72427-6
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
38-56
Number of pages of the book
288
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
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