Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7785471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonella Ceccagno (0000-0001-7506-7048, Department of Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures University of Bologna Bologna Italy, corresponding author), Mette Thunø (0000-0001-9410-2363, Department of Global Studies Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-105 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Networks (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/glob.12389 |
| PMID | 35941924 |
| OpenAlex | W4287833631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 26 |
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 discourse and ethnographic analysis, we argue that China's diaspora governance exposed a new and strong capacity for extra‐territorial governance. We explore how discursive hegemony, social control and diaspora mobilization were achieved by widely employing the Chinese social media application, WeChat. We also contend that this was facilitated by the Italian government's and media's pro‐China attitudes to emphasize the importance of considering transnational embeddedness when studying the implementation and impact of interactive online technology for diaspora governance in an illiberal political context
Business · China · Corporate governance · Development economics · Diaspora · Economics · Embeddedness · Geography · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Transnational governance · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Navigating Digital Resilience
Beyond National and Ethnic Boundaries
Between Two Worlds
The Diaspora
Assessing the White Paper
China's Smart Diaspora Governance
Chinese Migration to and within Europe
The Chinese diaspora’s engagement with transnational narrative galaxies
Transnational academic spaces and epistemic networks
Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
A little bit freer’
Covid-19 and Global Networks
The evolution of home-state positions towards diaspora formation
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration
Diaspora mobilisation in the Global South
Super-Sticky Wechat and Chinese Society
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora
Global Autocracies
The limitations of strategic narratives
China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance
Cin ciun cian ’ (ching chong)
Social Relays of China’s Power Projection? Overseas Chinese Collective Actions for Security in France
Digitized diaspora governance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Authoritarian emigration states
How do countries of origin engage migrants and diasporas? Multiple actors and comparative perspectives
China's Pandemic Power Play
The emigration state and the modern geopolitical imagination
Extraterritorial authoritarian practices
WeChat as infrastructure
Intervention
The digitization of diaspora engagement
The grid management system in contemporary China
Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions
Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
The long arm of the Arab state
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |