Chapter 8: China’s Diaspora Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Analytical Framework
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Mette Thuno [1]
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[1] Aarhus University
Aarhus University
Dinamarca
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- Localización: Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe / Mette Thuno (ed. lit.), Simeng Wang (ed. lit.), Emilie Tran Sautedé (ed. lit.), Yu-chin Tseng (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 978-90-04-71214-0, págs. 243-273
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Resumen
This chapter begins with an overview of research on China’s diaspora policies and governance since the beginning of the reform era. I argue that it is inadequate to conceptualize the Chinese Party-state’s extraterritorial governance of Chinese populations abroad as primarily the outcome of neoliberal forms of emigration management to generate revenue and innovation. Based on an analysis of a variety of documentary sources on Chinese diaspora policies and diaspora governance, I present a theoretical framework for domestic autocratic stability focusing on coercion, legitimacy, and co-option to the extraterritorial context to better enable analysis of the Chinese Party-state’s restructuring of transnational space. The chapter concludes with a discussion and proposition of new research agendas for the future studies within the area of China as a diaspora state.
