Mobile Entrepreneurs: Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic
Mobile Entrepreneurs: Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic
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流动企业家:捷克共和国的跨国越南人
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10.1057/9781137524492_4
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发表时间:
2015
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通讯作者:
Gertrud
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作者:
Hüwelmeier;Gertrud
This chapter focuses on transnational Vietnamese in Central Europe, in particular on the cross-border ties established by former contract workers from Vietnam in postsocialist countries such as the eastern part of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.1After the breakdown of communism, thousands of Vietnamese stayed in these countries rather than return to Vietnam. Most of them managed to survive economically only by engaging in retailing or wholesaling and therefore started careers as petty traders. A considerable number of these Vietnamese traders have become successful entrepreneurs in recent years, with business networks that extend across national borders. The entrepreneurs travel regularly between various Central European countries, but also foster and maintain connections with China, Vietnam, and other states. Local markets in former socialist countries, increasingly comprising diverse peoples, play key roles in postsocialist economic development while transnationally linking a variety of geographical and sociocultural spaces. Based on multisited ethnographic fieldwork with transnational Vietnamese in “Asian” bazaars in the eastern part of Berlin, Prague, and Warsaw, as well as in various marketplaces in Hanoi, this chapter addresses questions of (1) socialist pathways of migration, (2) the establishment of bazaars by migrants in Prague, and (3) diversity and encounters between locals and migrants in contemporary Central Europe.
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作者:
Alena K. Alamgir
通讯作者:
Alena K. Alamgir
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2011
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Ann Marie Leshkowich
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作者:
C. Humphrey;Vera Skvirskaja
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2000
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作者:
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M. Baumann
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