Las Nuevas "caras" ("mianzi", 面子) en los chinos de España

Reciprocidad Y Mercado

Bibliographic Data

ID3075517
AuthorsJorge Moraga (0000-0002-3230-9526), Jorge Moraga Reyes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume21
Issue0
Publication date2012-10-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Antropología Social (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1131-558X • E-ISSN: 1696-7534
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/rev_raso.2012.v21.40057
OpenAlexW2053359420
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited4

Among Chinese immigrants in Spain, there exists a distinction whether they are coming from Wenzhou port or Qingtian mountain range, both neighbor locations in the province of Zhejiang and main migratory cores towards the Iberian Peninsula. Starting from this identity distinction, I analyze the presence of “ethnic” reciprocity structures inside the transnational migratory space that are favoring the entry of immigrants into instrumental and consumption rationality patterns. In this article I focus on one of them: mianzi (面子) or face, main source of symbolic capital and the base of the status among Chinese people. I present some of the configurative institutions of mianzi and of the legitimacies that build its value. Despite its entrante in western modernity, mianzi appears as a resourceful structure adapting to new social spaces through the comprehensive meanings and practices that it covers

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