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Meina Jia Sandal

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ID206052
NAMEMeina Jia Sandal
GIVEN NAMESMeina Jia
FAMILY NAMESandal
SIGNATURESANDAL M J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0003-1813-5117
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1
  • Money, morality, and mobility among Chinese surrogate shoppers in Denmark

    Open Access•Meina Jia Sandal•ARTICLE•China Information•2025•References: 33

    The practice of daigou (代购, literally meaning buying on behalf of) is a transnational, network-based, and largely feminized form of surrogate shopping that connects Chinese consumers with overseas buyers for items ranging from everyday necessities to luxury goods. This practice has developed into a significant grey market due to years of insufficient regulation. Despite ongoing legal debates, daigou remains a favoured business among Chinese immig…

  • Feeding Chinese Infants with Danish formula

    Open Access•Meina Jia Sandal•ARTICLE•Études rurales•2025•References: 17

    Chinese parents have increasingly turned to foreign infant formula following a series of milk powder scandals in the mid-2000s, leading to the rise of daigou, an informal transnational business channel that provides access to overseas products. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly constrained this "grey market". Drawing on two periods of ethnographic research in Denmark and China from 2018 to 2022, this article explores h…

  • Episodic mistrust and selective system trust

    Open Access•Anders Sybrandt Hansen, Mikkel Bunkenborg et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 39

    This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…

  • Episodic mistrust and selective system trust

    Open Access•Anders Sybrandt Hansen, Mikkel Bunkenborg et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 39

    This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…

  • Episodic mistrust and selective system trust

    Open Access•Anders Sybrandt Hansen, Mikkel Bunkenborg et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 39

    This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…

  • Money, morality, and mobility among Chinese surrogate shoppers in Denmark

    Open Access•Meina Jia Sandal•ARTICLE•China Information•2025•References: 33

    The practice of daigou (代购, literally meaning buying on behalf of) is a transnational, network-based, and largely feminized form of surrogate shopping that connects Chinese consumers with overseas buyers for items ranging from everyday necessities to luxury goods. This practice has developed into a significant grey market due to years of insufficient regulation. Despite ongoing legal debates, daigou remains a favoured business among Chinese immig…

  • Feeding Chinese Infants with Danish formula

    Open Access•Meina Jia Sandal•ARTICLE•Études rurales•2025•References: 17

    Chinese parents have increasingly turned to foreign infant formula following a series of milk powder scandals in the mid-2000s, leading to the rise of daigou, an informal transnational business channel that provides access to overseas products. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly constrained this "grey market". Drawing on two periods of ethnographic research in Denmark and China from 2018 to 2022, this article explores h…

China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (1 works) · China (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Danish (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (1 works) · Ideology (1 works) · Infant formula (1 works)

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