Beatrice Zani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 181202 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Beatrice Zani |
| PRENOMES | Beatrice |
| SOBRENOME | Zani |
| ASSINATURA | ZANI B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0968-4368 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
L’image, c’est notre histoire ». Voyage dans la Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde
Ce voyage au cœur de la Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde donne à voir des productions cinématographiques singulières produites dans les « banlieues du monde » — des espaces créatifs dynamiques, toujours en mouvement, jamais exhaustifs ni figés. À la différence des films ethnographiques, les images mises en avant par la Cinémathèque partent des marges et explorent les perspectives situées depuis le quotidien, l’intime et le vécu des fami…
Bumps, hits and hurdles
International audience
Fettered mobility’ and translocality
Investigating the multi-layered mobility of Southeast Asian irregular farm workers in rural Taiwan, this article examines the formation of their mobility in a physical, geographical, occupational and socio-economic sense. Focusing on frequent movement in these four aspects, this article coins the term ‘fettered mobility’ for workers’ constant relocation in the villages’ informal farm labour market. In tandem with the focus of this Special Issue o…
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’
This paper investigates the everyday lived realities of Southeast Asian migrant workers who left the formal sector of the labour market and entered the informal agricultural sector before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Taiwan. Drawing on observations of migrants' daily lives and farm work and 19 in‐depth interviews, it delves into migrants' subjective experiences of vulnerability, paternalism, exploitation, and control at work due to a lack …
Raulin Anne et Chantal Crenn (dir.), 2021, « Nouvelles questions ethniques », Dossier thématique, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 37, 3-4
Raulin Anne et Chantal Crenn (dir.), 2021, « Nouvelles questions ethniques », Dossier thématique, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 37, 3-4.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Anthropologie politique du travail) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Fourth World Congress of Taiwan Studies
This report highlights and offers reflections on three unique features of the fourth World Congress of Taiwan Studies ( wcts 4) held in Seattle in June 2022. First, following the covid -19 pandemic, wcts 4 was one of the first large-scale conferences in the field of Taiwan studies to be held in hybrid mode. Second, although three previous editions have taken place since 2012, wcts 4 was the first to be held in the United States. Third, it is the …
How Far Can Chicken Feet Travel
This article analyses Chinese women's e-entrepreneurship of trading nostalgic and/or contested goods in the disputed sovereign borders and virtual marketplace in the borderland between China and Taiwan. Using physical and digital ethnography, and drawing on the case study of the journey of chicken feet and other goods traded through WeChat by Chinese women in Taiwan, this article shows how the online and offline trails of these goods and the virt…
Introduction—Migrants and Their Smartphones
The increasing symbiosis between contemporary mobility and global Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been widely recognized in both migration and media studies. 1 Advanced media technology, including smartphones, facilitates information exchange and instantaneous communication. 2 The pervasive use of smartphones is an everyday reality for migrants, whose activities are increasingly taking place online and in real time. 3 Smartp…
Orange bras, petit capitalism and e-entrepreneurs. On the backroads of globalisation between China and Taiwan
Through a multi-sited physical and virtual ethnography of Chinese migrant women's entrepreneurship in Taiwan, this paper illuminates the role of digital migrant entrepreneurship in the making of globalisation. In the digital age of gendered migrant entrepreneurship, it challenges the long-lasting dichotomy between ‘bottom-up' and ‘top-down' globalisation and contributes to the theoretical debate about migrant transnational entrepreneurship, eluci…
L'e-entrepreneuriat des cyber-familles transnationales migrantes
De nouvelles cyber-familles chinoises transnationales émergent entre la Chine et le Canada. Dans un contexte de disqualification dans l’emploi, d’inégalités sur le marché du travail canadien et de déplacements familiaux, ces entrepreneurs migrants déploient de nouvelles stratégies. Les maris des femmes chinoises sont conduits à remigrer en Chine, tandis que celles-ci restent au Canada et mettent en place des e-commerces en collaboration avec leur…
Liaisons troubles en maison close
À partir d'une ethnographie du travail des femmes migrantes chinoises employées dans une maison close de Taipei, le récit propose une réflexion sur l'éthique de l'enquête. Il narre la production de complicités entre l'ethnographe et une pluralité d'acteurs : le maquereau local, ses partenaires, ses subalternes et les femmes. Construites in situ, les complicités se révèlent précaires et temporaires : elles se font et se défont, débouchant sur une …
Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan
This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalisation; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic i…
Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’
International audience
Shall WeChat? Switching between online and offline ethnography
Drawing on the ethnographic work conducted inside the digital platform WeChat, this article contributes to the ongoing discussion about the multi-sited ethnographic tools and the digital methods available for investigating virtual worlds and online practices. It analyses the communications, interactions, sociality, and economic activities produced on the application WeChat by Chinese migrant women, together with the same practices constructed off…
Pattes de poulet, colis cachés, entrepreneuses connectées. Migration et entrepreneuriat digital entre Chine et Taïwan
À l’ère du numérique, les pratiques entrepreneuriales et économiques des migrants investissent des espaces nouveaux : ceux du numérique. À partir du cas d’étude des mobilités des prolétaires migrantes de la Chine à Taïwan, cet article montre un nouveau lien entre migration, entrepreneuriat et plateformes digitales. En Chine, puis à Taïwan, les jeunes ouvrières migrantes chinoises font face à des situations de mise à distance sociale et familiale,…
Digital Entrepreneurship
In the digital age of migration, Chinese migrant entrepreneurial activities are increasingly undertaken online. Drawing on a case study of e-commerce developed by Chinese marriage-migrant women in Taiwan, this article investigates the digitized and emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship. It examines Chinese women’s innovative use of the online social media platform WeChat in developing transnational networks and virtual commercial circuits to a…
Trado ergo sum
In the digital age, in the frame of a compressed modernity, this article considers the creative mobilities of migrants, commodities, and emotions on digitalized economic trails. Through multi-situated and virtual ethnography, based on the case study of Chinese women’s e-commerce in Taiwan, it shows how entrepreneurship, economies and markets can be socially and emotionally constructed by a combined action of multiple social networks and affection…
A New Era in Democratic Taiwan
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WeChat, we sell, we feel
Through multi-situated and virtual ethnography, this article investigates the link between mobilities, subalternity, emotions and digital economies. Drawing on the case study of Chinese migrant women’s digital labour and e-commerce in Taiwan, it elucidates the social and emotional construction of translocal virtual markets, which connect online and offline the different temporalities, spatialities and emotions of women’s mobilities. In Taiwan, Ch…
In‐between
After a first labour migration from the countryside to the city in China, some Chinese migrant working women are engaged in marriage migration to Taiwan. There, they face social, gendered and economic subalternity. Therefore, some women divorce and re‐migrate to China, to the city they had been previously working in, where they remobilise social, economic and emotional resources, as well as the new competences and knowledge capitalised during mob…
Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies
After a first migration in internal China, Chinese migrant women re‐migrate to Taiwan through marriage. There, to cope with economic discrimination, by exploiting the social network WeChat , Chinese women produce physical and virtual transnational multipolar economies, connecting the society of departure, China, and of settlement, Taiwan. Engaging with the contemporary debate about migrants’ translocal practices and economic transnationalism, thi…
Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies
After a first migration in internal China, Chinese migrant women re‐migrate to Taiwan through marriage. There, to cope with economic discrimination, by exploiting the social network WeChat , Chinese women produce physical and virtual transnational multipolar economies, connecting the society of departure, China, and of settlement, Taiwan. Engaging with the contemporary debate about migrants’ translocal practices and economic transnationalism, thi…
Bumps, hits and hurdles
International audience
Shall WeChat? Switching between online and offline ethnography
Drawing on the ethnographic work conducted inside the digital platform WeChat, this article contributes to the ongoing discussion about the multi-sited ethnographic tools and the digital methods available for investigating virtual worlds and online practices. It analyses the communications, interactions, sociality, and economic activities produced on the application WeChat by Chinese migrant women, together with the same practices constructed off…
In‐between
After a first labour migration from the countryside to the city in China, some Chinese migrant working women are engaged in marriage migration to Taiwan. There, they face social, gendered and economic subalternity. Therefore, some women divorce and re‐migrate to China, to the city they had been previously working in, where they remobilise social, economic and emotional resources, as well as the new competences and knowledge capitalised during mob…
Digital Entrepreneurship
In the digital age of migration, Chinese migrant entrepreneurial activities are increasingly undertaken online. Drawing on a case study of e-commerce developed by Chinese marriage-migrant women in Taiwan, this article investigates the digitized and emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship. It examines Chinese women’s innovative use of the online social media platform WeChat in developing transnational networks and virtual commercial circuits to a…
WeChat, we sell, we feel
Through multi-situated and virtual ethnography, this article investigates the link between mobilities, subalternity, emotions and digital economies. Drawing on the case study of Chinese migrant women’s digital labour and e-commerce in Taiwan, it elucidates the social and emotional construction of translocal virtual markets, which connect online and offline the different temporalities, spatialities and emotions of women’s mobilities. In Taiwan, Ch…
Orange bras, petit capitalism and e-entrepreneurs. On the backroads of globalisation between China and Taiwan
Through a multi-sited physical and virtual ethnography of Chinese migrant women's entrepreneurship in Taiwan, this paper illuminates the role of digital migrant entrepreneurship in the making of globalisation. In the digital age of gendered migrant entrepreneurship, it challenges the long-lasting dichotomy between ‘bottom-up' and ‘top-down' globalisation and contributes to the theoretical debate about migrant transnational entrepreneurship, eluci…
Fettered mobility’ and translocality
Investigating the multi-layered mobility of Southeast Asian irregular farm workers in rural Taiwan, this article examines the formation of their mobility in a physical, geographical, occupational and socio-economic sense. Focusing on frequent movement in these four aspects, this article coins the term ‘fettered mobility’ for workers’ constant relocation in the villages’ informal farm labour market. In tandem with the focus of this Special Issue o…
Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies
After a first migration in internal China, Chinese migrant women re‐migrate to Taiwan through marriage. There, to cope with economic discrimination, by exploiting the social network WeChat , Chinese women produce physical and virtual transnational multipolar economies, connecting the society of departure, China, and of settlement, Taiwan. Engaging with the contemporary debate about migrants’ translocal practices and economic transnationalism, thi…
Trado ergo sum
In the digital age, in the frame of a compressed modernity, this article considers the creative mobilities of migrants, commodities, and emotions on digitalized economic trails. Through multi-situated and virtual ethnography, based on the case study of Chinese women’s e-commerce in Taiwan, it shows how entrepreneurship, economies and markets can be socially and emotionally constructed by a combined action of multiple social networks and affection…
A New Era in Democratic Taiwan
Compte rendu de lecture
WeChat, we sell, we feel
Through multi-situated and virtual ethnography, this article investigates the link between mobilities, subalternity, emotions and digital economies. Drawing on the case study of Chinese migrant women’s digital labour and e-commerce in Taiwan, it elucidates the social and emotional construction of translocal virtual markets, which connect online and offline the different temporalities, spatialities and emotions of women’s mobilities. In Taiwan, Ch…
In‐between
After a first labour migration from the countryside to the city in China, some Chinese migrant working women are engaged in marriage migration to Taiwan. There, they face social, gendered and economic subalternity. Therefore, some women divorce and re‐migrate to China, to the city they had been previously working in, where they remobilise social, economic and emotional resources, as well as the new competences and knowledge capitalised during mob…
Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan
This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalisation; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic i…
Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’
International audience
Shall WeChat? Switching between online and offline ethnography
Drawing on the ethnographic work conducted inside the digital platform WeChat, this article contributes to the ongoing discussion about the multi-sited ethnographic tools and the digital methods available for investigating virtual worlds and online practices. It analyses the communications, interactions, sociality, and economic activities produced on the application WeChat by Chinese migrant women, together with the same practices constructed off…
Pattes de poulet, colis cachés, entrepreneuses connectées. Migration et entrepreneuriat digital entre Chine et Taïwan
À l’ère du numérique, les pratiques entrepreneuriales et économiques des migrants investissent des espaces nouveaux : ceux du numérique. À partir du cas d’étude des mobilités des prolétaires migrantes de la Chine à Taïwan, cet article montre un nouveau lien entre migration, entrepreneuriat et plateformes digitales. En Chine, puis à Taïwan, les jeunes ouvrières migrantes chinoises font face à des situations de mise à distance sociale et familiale,…
Digital Entrepreneurship
In the digital age of migration, Chinese migrant entrepreneurial activities are increasingly undertaken online. Drawing on a case study of e-commerce developed by Chinese marriage-migrant women in Taiwan, this article investigates the digitized and emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship. It examines Chinese women’s innovative use of the online social media platform WeChat in developing transnational networks and virtual commercial circuits to a…
How Far Can Chicken Feet Travel
This article analyses Chinese women's e-entrepreneurship of trading nostalgic and/or contested goods in the disputed sovereign borders and virtual marketplace in the borderland between China and Taiwan. Using physical and digital ethnography, and drawing on the case study of the journey of chicken feet and other goods traded through WeChat by Chinese women in Taiwan, this article shows how the online and offline trails of these goods and the virt…
Introduction—Migrants and Their Smartphones
The increasing symbiosis between contemporary mobility and global Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been widely recognized in both migration and media studies. 1 Advanced media technology, including smartphones, facilitates information exchange and instantaneous communication. 2 The pervasive use of smartphones is an everyday reality for migrants, whose activities are increasingly taking place online and in real time. 3 Smartp…
Orange bras, petit capitalism and e-entrepreneurs. On the backroads of globalisation between China and Taiwan
Through a multi-sited physical and virtual ethnography of Chinese migrant women's entrepreneurship in Taiwan, this paper illuminates the role of digital migrant entrepreneurship in the making of globalisation. In the digital age of gendered migrant entrepreneurship, it challenges the long-lasting dichotomy between ‘bottom-up' and ‘top-down' globalisation and contributes to the theoretical debate about migrant transnational entrepreneurship, eluci…
L'e-entrepreneuriat des cyber-familles transnationales migrantes
De nouvelles cyber-familles chinoises transnationales émergent entre la Chine et le Canada. Dans un contexte de disqualification dans l’emploi, d’inégalités sur le marché du travail canadien et de déplacements familiaux, ces entrepreneurs migrants déploient de nouvelles stratégies. Les maris des femmes chinoises sont conduits à remigrer en Chine, tandis que celles-ci restent au Canada et mettent en place des e-commerces en collaboration avec leur…
Liaisons troubles en maison close
À partir d'une ethnographie du travail des femmes migrantes chinoises employées dans une maison close de Taipei, le récit propose une réflexion sur l'éthique de l'enquête. Il narre la production de complicités entre l'ethnographe et une pluralité d'acteurs : le maquereau local, ses partenaires, ses subalternes et les femmes. Construites in situ, les complicités se révèlent précaires et temporaires : elles se font et se défont, débouchant sur une …
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’
This paper investigates the everyday lived realities of Southeast Asian migrant workers who left the formal sector of the labour market and entered the informal agricultural sector before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Taiwan. Drawing on observations of migrants' daily lives and farm work and 19 in‐depth interviews, it delves into migrants' subjective experiences of vulnerability, paternalism, exploitation, and control at work due to a lack …
Raulin Anne et Chantal Crenn (dir.), 2021, « Nouvelles questions ethniques », Dossier thématique, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 37, 3-4
Raulin Anne et Chantal Crenn (dir.), 2021, « Nouvelles questions ethniques », Dossier thématique, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 37, 3-4.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Anthropologie politique du travail) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Fourth World Congress of Taiwan Studies
This report highlights and offers reflections on three unique features of the fourth World Congress of Taiwan Studies ( wcts 4) held in Seattle in June 2022. First, following the covid -19 pandemic, wcts 4 was one of the first large-scale conferences in the field of Taiwan studies to be held in hybrid mode. Second, although three previous editions have taken place since 2012, wcts 4 was the first to be held in the United States. Third, it is the …
Fettered mobility’ and translocality
Investigating the multi-layered mobility of Southeast Asian irregular farm workers in rural Taiwan, this article examines the formation of their mobility in a physical, geographical, occupational and socio-economic sense. Focusing on frequent movement in these four aspects, this article coins the term ‘fettered mobility’ for workers’ constant relocation in the villages’ informal farm labour market. In tandem with the focus of this Special Issue o…
L’image, c’est notre histoire ». Voyage dans la Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde
Ce voyage au cœur de la Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde donne à voir des productions cinématographiques singulières produites dans les « banlieues du monde » — des espaces créatifs dynamiques, toujours en mouvement, jamais exhaustifs ni figés. À la différence des films ethnographiques, les images mises en avant par la Cinémathèque partent des marges et explorent les perspectives situées depuis le quotidien, l’intime et le vécu des fami…
Bumps, hits and hurdles
International audience
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