"Big Fish in a Small Pond": Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa. (March 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Big Fish in a Small Pond": Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa. (March 2014)
- Main Title:
- "Big Fish in a Small Pond": Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa
- Authors:
- Lin, Edwin
- Abstract:
- The steady growth of Chinese migrants to South Africa in the past decade provides an opportunity to use Sen's (2001, Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press) capabilities approach in the field of immigration. This theoretical framing reveals that the Chinese employ, what I call, a small pond migration strategy – utilizing mobility to maximize their social, economic, and human capital. I argue that the Chinese move to South Africa because of a desire to venture out of China and pursue freedoms associated with being one's own boss. Once in South Africa, they choose to stay because of comfortable weather and a slower pace of life, despite losing freedoms associated with high crime in Johannesburg. The findings suggest alternative ways of understanding factors of migration as well as a model that explains migration from more developed countries to less developed ones.
- Is Part Of:
- International migration review. Volume 48(2014)Supplement 1
- Journal:
- International migration review
- Issue:
- Volume 48(2014)Supplement 1
- Issue Display:
- Volume 48, Issue 1 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0048-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 181
- Page End:
- 215
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Subjects:
- Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/imre ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/imre.12074 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0197-9183
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