Call for Papers
10th China Goes Global Conference
July 26-28, 2016
University of Macerata
The 10th Annual China goes Global conference will be held in Macerata, Italy, the birthplace of Matteo Ricci.
We call for papers, panel presentations, book authors, and PhD students researching China’s globalization to
submit their work on our website. A significant part of the world’s economy, trade, and investment, China
has become a center of influence to geopolitics, world institutions, and the global economic health. We
seek research on the internationalization of China from a multi-disciplinary perspectives, including political
economy, business, sociology, and environmental studies. The conference attracts multinational attendees
mostly from the academy, but also from government, international institutions, and the business sectors.
We invite papers to join the following Panel: Negotiation, Language and Culture
New generations from a Chinese background. Negotiating belonging through language and culture
Eduardo Barberis (DESP – University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy);
Valentina Pedone (LILSI – University of Florence, Italy)
In the last decades, the Chinese diaspora settled in many different countries, both in the Global North and in
the Global South. What is more, in a frame of superdiversification of migration paths (Vertovec 2007),
Chinese migrants reached new destinations outside traditional gateways (e.g. Mediterranean and Central
and Eastern Europe, Southern Africa...).
Different countries build up different contexts for legal, social, political, economic, cultural and linguistic
participation and incorporation. National and local policies affect Chinese migrants in different ways,
according to migration timing and strategies, forms of bounded solidarity and societal reception.
In the context of contemporary migration paths, social sciences show that the superdiversification of flows is
matched with a hyper-diversification of life-styles, values, attitudes and behaviours (Tasan-Kok et al. 2014)
within and among social (and ethnic) groups – not only along traditional ethnic, class and gender lines.
Strong ties, the idea of a “walled” community, are challenged by cosmopolitan attitudes, cultural bricolages
and multiple belongings. The representation of a Chinese bounded community “resistant” to any form of
incorporation – which has never been particularly descriptive from a scientific point of view – is even more
challenged by forms of resilience, adaptation and negotiation of cultural and linguistic boundaries. Even new
forms of cultural revival cannot be considered spontaneous or “automatic”, but as active strategies of
reaction or assertion.
This may be particular evident with the new generations from a Chinese background, born or grown-up with
limited contact with their parents' native context, in host countries that for the first time see
intergenerational effects of quite recent migration flows.
For this reason, this track welcomes papers that study the legal, social, political, economic, cultural and
linguistic negotiations new generations from a Chinese background enact to define the boundaries of their
social and individual identity, their relations with peers; parents and relatives; their parents' homeland; the
societies they have grown-up in – in particular those receiving Chinese migration in the last 20 to 30 years, in
the post-Fordist era.
Case studies from any country and from different disciplinary background (e.g. economics, political science,
sociology, anthropology, history, law, linguistics, semiotics, cultural and area studies, communication
studies...) are accepted. Though, theoretically informed empirical studies, comparative and/or
interdisciplinary papers with a Focus on Europe will be particularly appreciated.
To enhance the debate and try to achieve a common understanding of the presented case studies, the track
will be organized following Korpi's rules (papers are circulated in advance; a discussant other than the author
presents the paper; the author steps in to answer discussant's critique and participants' questions; a general
discussion follows).
Please submit your paper through our online submission system no later than March 15, 2016. Papers
should follow the author style and referencing guide provided on the conference website. By submitting a
paper, all authors also agree to review up to 3 papers, and at least one author agrees to attend the
conference.
Submissions must be done online: http://www.chinagoesglobal.org/conference/paper-submission/
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2016
Paper acceptance/rejection: May 1, 2016
Revised paper submission: June 1, 2016