Vietnamese business enclaves on Czech-German speaking borders : intricate network of ethnic economies or conglomerate of individual enterprises?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Vietnamese business enclaves on Czech-German speaking borders : intricate network of ethnic economies or conglomerate of individual enterprises?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Vietnamese acquiring qualifications in socialist Czechoslovakia were meant to become prominent socialist workers to help their war-torn country. Instead, they proved to be pioneers of Czechoslovak/Czech capitalism. During the 1990s transition period, they took advantage of the 1,277 km-long Czech border with affluent German-speaking countries. Over three decades, they transformed the majority of these border crossings into a variety of more or less important or successful centres of Vietnamese financial, entrepreneurial and social capital, with multilevel transnational overlap. Stemming from longitudinal qualitative research consisting of interviews with Vietnamese entrepreneurs, customers and stakeholders on both sides of the border, the paper contributes to the understanding of ethnic economies in post-socialist countries. Through a comparative case study of communities on the Austrian (České Velenice) and German border (Strážný, Železná Ruda and Folmava), we explain how the Vietnamese border business was formed, diversified and interconnected. We argue that an initial advantage concentrated on mutual support and increasing their attractiveness to German-speaking customers changed into a source of competition and gradual disintegration within local Vietnamese communities while preventing the formation of networks between individual enclaves.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Vietnamese business enclaves on Czech-German speaking borders : intricate network of ethnic economies or conglomerate of individual enterprises?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Vietnamese acquiring qualifications in socialist Czechoslovakia were meant to become prominent socialist workers to help their war-torn country. Instead, they proved to be pioneers of Czechoslovak/Czech capitalism. During the 1990s transition period, they took advantage of the 1,277 km-long Czech border with affluent German-speaking countries. Over three decades, they transformed the majority of these border crossings into a variety of more or less important or successful centres of Vietnamese financial, entrepreneurial and social capital, with multilevel transnational overlap. Stemming from longitudinal qualitative research consisting of interviews with Vietnamese entrepreneurs, customers and stakeholders on both sides of the border, the paper contributes to the understanding of ethnic economies in post-socialist countries. Through a comparative case study of communities on the Austrian (České Velenice) and German border (Strážný, Železná Ruda and Folmava), we explain how the Vietnamese border business was formed, diversified and interconnected. We argue that an initial advantage concentrated on mutual support and increasing their attractiveness to German-speaking customers changed into a source of competition and gradual disintegration within local Vietnamese communities while preventing the formation of networks between individual enclaves.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-06818S" target="_blank" >GA21-06818S: Integrace migrantů v nemetropolitních oblastech na individuální, diasporální a institucionální úrovni. Vietnamci usazení v českém pohraničí.</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Opportunities and Threats to Current Business Management in Cross‐border Comparison 2021

ISBN

978-3-86367-067-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

36-58

Název nakladatele

Verlag der GUC ‐ Gesellschaft für Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling m.b.H.

Místo vydání

Chemnitz

Místo konání akce

Železná Ruda

Datum konání akce

11. 11. 2021

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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