Integration and discrimination of chinese ethnic minority in spain
- Autores: Yang Wang
- Directores de la Tesis: Jorge Rodríguez Menes (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Yaojun Li (presid.), Amado Alarcón Alarcón (secret.), Liu Minghua (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
With the increase of the population of the Chinese ethnic minority in Spain, their adaptation and integration are of great importance to the development of the local Chinese community and the stability of the host society. Furthermore, education is the crucial predictor of ethnic minorities' integration and discrimination is an important obstacle to their integration. Therefore, it is meaningful to explore the Chinese ethnic minority's education and discrimination, which is able to predict the Chinese ethnic minority's integration. This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the integration of Chinese minorities living in Spain – especially, of the second generation born or educated in the country – and the problems of discrimination. The main findings include, first, that Chinese immigrant youths have lower educational attainments than other ethnic minorities in Spain. Parents’ low educational background and lack of ambition for the educational attainments of their children, and Chinese immigrant youths’ high perceived discrimination play significant roles in explaining their low educational attainment. In order to get a deeper understanding of the source of such perceived discrimination, the thesis next explores the role played by coping strategies and community support on these feelings of discrimination. It finds that while many Chinese immigrant youths adopt negative coping strategies to face perceived discrimination, they compensate them with strong social support from their own ethnic community. The community provides them with a comfortable and secure environment to live in, but also contributes to their gradual segregation from the Spanish society, which further leads to discrimination. In the third part of the thesis, I further explore the issue of discrimination through experimental methods. I test whether there is discrimination against Chinese minority groups by doing an experiment on the extent to which they have more difficulties than the nationals for buying and selling products in online, second-hand commodity trading markets. I also explore if any discrimination is likely to be taste-based or statistical. I find that when Chinese buyers offer to buy products for sale in the market, they receive fewer positive responses from the sellers than nationals, which demonstrates that they are discriminated against, at least in trading. However, I do not find evidence that they are discriminated against when selling products. This, and the fact that sellers and buyers adjust their responses to a change in the price in the same way regardless of the nationality of the person altering the price, leads me to conclude that they are affected mostly by statistical discrimination, i.e., that they discriminate on the basis of stereotypes about the lower socio-economic status of the Chinese ethnic minority.
