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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora. Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China&apos;s Rise

ISBN

978-0-367-72427-6

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

38-56

Počet stran knihy

288

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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