New rules of the game? Education and governmentality in Chinese migration to Poland. (September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kardaszewicz, Krzysztof
• Is Part Of: Asian and Pacific migration journal. Volume 28:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 353
• Page End: 376
• Publication Date: 2019-09
• Subjects: Chinese migrants -- Poland -- social mobility -- educational desire -- governmentality; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals; Pacific Area -- Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals; Migration, Internal -- Asia -- Periodicals; Migration, Internal -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Emigration and immigration; Migration, Internal; Asia; Pacific Area; Periodicals; 325
• DOI: 10.1177/0117196819877004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0117-1968

Abstract

The Chinese in Poland are an understudied but rapidly growing migrant community, undergoing a transition from an established pattern of economic chain migration to one based on investment of wealth in pursuit of a better life environment. Educational immigration by middle-class families provides insight into a broader trend of popular resistance to China's established model of governmentality. Refusing to conform to prescribed patterns of achievement and social mobility, these families exemplify a younger generation's aspirations and challenges involved in transnational mobility, which go beyond the traditional capital accumulation strategies.