Colloquia Event: Anne-Christine Trémon

365 5th Avenue,New York NY 10016

28 October, 2022

Description

Inhabitants of Shenzhen’s villages are no longer poor peasants who depend on their rich overseas relatives. For more than a century, they have been migrating to South-east Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. Emigration has waned now that the villages have become part of the special economic zone of Shenzhen, the megacity that embodies China’s rise. This talk explores the transformations of a Shenzhen former emigrant community and the way its members’ reconceptualize emigration and their relation with their overseas relatives around the world. Prof. Trémon highlights the politics of scale that underly their relationship with their diaspora in the context of Chinese globalization. Anne-Christine Trémon is a senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne and incoming director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her research focuses on kinship, moral economies, migration and diaspora, and urbanization from a global historical perspective. Her book Diaspora Space-Time. Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2022).