Antonella Ceccagno
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 381593 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Antonella Ceccagno |
| NOMBRES | Antonella |
| APELLIDO | Ceccagno |
| FIRMA | CECCAGNO A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7506-7048 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Chinese diaspora’s engagement with transnational narrative galaxies
China is a much more active player in the lives of Chinese diasporas than it has been in recent decades. In this paper, based on rich empirical material, we depart from the dominant approach that dissects China’s practices of direct digital diaspora engagement and take a new perspective. Focusing on broader multilingual transnational narrative galaxies, we argue that while processes of selective diaspora engagement with China do take place, they …
Chinese workers in Africa
A crucial aspect of the Chinese presence in Africa is the employment of transnational Chinese workers in the growing number of Chinese public and private enterprises. This paper stems from dissatisfaction with the rift between studies of Chinese workers in Africa, studies of Chinese state-sponsored globalization, and recent conceptualizations of transnational labor mobility. This rift has prevented the foregrounding of the simultaneous and co-pro…
Selective law enforcement at the intersection of ethnicity and entrepreneurship
This paper discusses the inconsistent law enforcement which only targets Chinese manufacturing firms active in the Italian fashion industry. Theory building is deeply embedded in rich empirical data and in a dialogue with concepts and theories developed in a wide range of fields and subfields such as urban studies, development studies, studies on local governance, and migration studies. While focusing on dynamics unfolding at the local scale, the…
Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
We explore how the Chinese diaspora state during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 managed to transform a severe health crisis into a geo‐political opportunity for transnational nation‐building through diaspora governance based on extensive use of social media technologies. By adopting a multi‐scalar perspective, we analyse the intertwined nature of top‐down and bottom‐up processes of the Chinese Party‐state's diaspora mobilization. Based on discours…
The making of a skilled worker
Migrant workers’ employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies. In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the ‘transnational mixed embeddedness’ approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers. Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally em…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
The Mobile Emplacement
The death of seven Chinese migrants in a fire in Prato, Italy sparked debate on the productive regime of the Chinese migrants in Italian industrial districts (IDs). This paper addresses the issue of Chinese entrepreneurship in IDs by highlighting the structural factors at work and their interaction with Chinese migrants’ agency. It shows that the Chinese migrants’ working regime is the result of the legal regimes of Italy, the degrees at which re…
The Hidden Crisis
This paper discusses the ways in which Chinese migrants and the city/ID of Prato together mutually constitute the local in the framework of global and national dynamics. It aims to document and explain the dynamics taking place in Prato, Italy at a time when its garment industry, mainly run by Chinese migrants, is confronted with global changes and restrictive local policies that threaten its very existence. Glick Schiller and Caglar (2011) sugge…
Compound headedness in Chinese
Compressing Personal Time
Italy is the southern European country with the largest Chinese population. So-called Chinese ‘new migrants’, who started arriving in Italy from the early 1980s, entered into a niche characterised by contracting businesses. These businesses performed manufacturing tasks for Italian firms producing garments and leather goods. The ‘new migrants’ have made inroads into the fashion industry, an industry that is still central to the Italian economy. T…
New Chinese Migrants in Italy
Italy joined the group of European nations with a positive migratory balance in 1980, but now the presence of an immigrant workforce is definitely embedded in the Italian development model. The shift from a net emigration to net immigration country occurred when the internal migration from southern Italy, which had provided the factories in northern Italy with the necessary manpower for their economic development, was coming to an end, and produc…
New Chinese Migrants in Italy
Italy joined the group of European nations with a positive migratory balance in 1980, but now the presence of an immigrant workforce is definitely embedded in the Italian development model. The shift from a net emigration to net immigration country occurred when the internal migration from southern Italy, which had provided the factories in northern Italy with the necessary manpower for their economic development, was coming to an end, and produc…
Compound headedness in Chinese
Compressing Personal Time
Italy is the southern European country with the largest Chinese population. So-called Chinese ‘new migrants’, who started arriving in Italy from the early 1980s, entered into a niche characterised by contracting businesses. These businesses performed manufacturing tasks for Italian firms producing garments and leather goods. The ‘new migrants’ have made inroads into the fashion industry, an industry that is still central to the Italian economy. T…
The Mobile Emplacement
The death of seven Chinese migrants in a fire in Prato, Italy sparked debate on the productive regime of the Chinese migrants in Italian industrial districts (IDs). This paper addresses the issue of Chinese entrepreneurship in IDs by highlighting the structural factors at work and their interaction with Chinese migrants’ agency. It shows that the Chinese migrants’ working regime is the result of the legal regimes of Italy, the degrees at which re…
Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
We explore how the Chinese diaspora state during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 managed to transform a severe health crisis into a geo‐political opportunity for transnational nation‐building through diaspora governance based on extensive use of social media technologies. By adopting a multi‐scalar perspective, we analyse the intertwined nature of top‐down and bottom‐up processes of the Chinese Party‐state's diaspora mobilization. Based on discours…
The Hidden Crisis
This paper discusses the ways in which Chinese migrants and the city/ID of Prato together mutually constitute the local in the framework of global and national dynamics. It aims to document and explain the dynamics taking place in Prato, Italy at a time when its garment industry, mainly run by Chinese migrants, is confronted with global changes and restrictive local policies that threaten its very existence. Glick Schiller and Caglar (2011) sugge…
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
The making of a skilled worker
Migrant workers’ employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies. In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the ‘transnational mixed embeddedness’ approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers. Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally em…
New Chinese Migrants in Italy
Italy joined the group of European nations with a positive migratory balance in 1980, but now the presence of an immigrant workforce is definitely embedded in the Italian development model. The shift from a net emigration to net immigration country occurred when the internal migration from southern Italy, which had provided the factories in northern Italy with the necessary manpower for their economic development, was coming to an end, and produc…
Compound headedness in Chinese
Compressing Personal Time
Italy is the southern European country with the largest Chinese population. So-called Chinese ‘new migrants’, who started arriving in Italy from the early 1980s, entered into a niche characterised by contracting businesses. These businesses performed manufacturing tasks for Italian firms producing garments and leather goods. The ‘new migrants’ have made inroads into the fashion industry, an industry that is still central to the Italian economy. T…
The Hidden Crisis
This paper discusses the ways in which Chinese migrants and the city/ID of Prato together mutually constitute the local in the framework of global and national dynamics. It aims to document and explain the dynamics taking place in Prato, Italy at a time when its garment industry, mainly run by Chinese migrants, is confronted with global changes and restrictive local policies that threaten its very existence. Glick Schiller and Caglar (2011) sugge…
The Mobile Emplacement
The death of seven Chinese migrants in a fire in Prato, Italy sparked debate on the productive regime of the Chinese migrants in Italian industrial districts (IDs). This paper addresses the issue of Chinese entrepreneurship in IDs by highlighting the structural factors at work and their interaction with Chinese migrants’ agency. It shows that the Chinese migrants’ working regime is the result of the legal regimes of Italy, the degrees at which re…
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
We explore how the Chinese diaspora state during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 managed to transform a severe health crisis into a geo‐political opportunity for transnational nation‐building through diaspora governance based on extensive use of social media technologies. By adopting a multi‐scalar perspective, we analyse the intertwined nature of top‐down and bottom‐up processes of the Chinese Party‐state's diaspora mobilization. Based on discours…
The making of a skilled worker
Migrant workers’ employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies. In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the ‘transnational mixed embeddedness’ approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers. Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally em…
Selective law enforcement at the intersection of ethnicity and entrepreneurship
This paper discusses the inconsistent law enforcement which only targets Chinese manufacturing firms active in the Italian fashion industry. Theory building is deeply embedded in rich empirical data and in a dialogue with concepts and theories developed in a wide range of fields and subfields such as urban studies, development studies, studies on local governance, and migration studies. While focusing on dynamics unfolding at the local scale, the…
The Chinese diaspora’s engagement with transnational narrative galaxies
China is a much more active player in the lives of Chinese diasporas than it has been in recent decades. In this paper, based on rich empirical material, we depart from the dominant approach that dissects China’s practices of direct digital diaspora engagement and take a new perspective. Focusing on broader multilingual transnational narrative galaxies, we argue that while processes of selective diaspora engagement with China do take place, they …
Chinese workers in Africa
A crucial aspect of the Chinese presence in Africa is the employment of transnational Chinese workers in the growing number of Chinese public and private enterprises. This paper stems from dissatisfaction with the rift between studies of Chinese workers in Africa, studies of Chinese state-sponsored globalization, and recent conceptualizations of transnational labor mobility. This rift has prevented the foregrounding of the simultaneous and co-pro…
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Economy (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · China (5 obras) · Economic geography (5 obras)