Diasporicité et problématique diasporique : réflexions à partir du cas chinois
Dealing first with the debates on the applicability of the notion of diaspora in the case of China, this article advocates its use as an analytical category. In the perspective of a global anthropology aimed at accounting for the variability of temporal and spatial scales, it questions the condition...
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2012
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Dealing first with the debates on the applicability of the notion of diaspora in the case of China, this article advocates its use as an analytical category. In the perspective of a global anthropology aimed at accounting for the variability of temporal and spatial scales, it questions the conditions according to which a population can be called « diasporic », and adopts a diachronic perspective so as to reflect on the conditions for maintaining « diasporicity ». Rather than advocating a priori paradigms of either « centered » or « de-centered » diasporas, the author offers to speak of « diasporic problematics ». These involve a tension between the maintained identification of its members to an original collective, within and in spite of dispersion, and their distancing from that collective, due to their localization in a host location. « Diasporic problematics » specific to China are then identified, based on the consultation of historical literature with a wide focus on Chinese migrations. These problematics can be further qualified by being applied to the field. Based on her long-term research in an emigration village in the Pearl River Delta, the author shows that in the case of South China, the lineage link with the original locality constitutes the empirically observable material, where the problematics are crucial. It also provides the main guiding thread of the ethnographic investigation. |
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