Resumen de Chapter 8: China’s Diaspora Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Analytical Framework
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.
