Entre dos culturas: acerca de la ambigüedad de las identidades de los descendientes de los inmigrantes chinos en España

Yangmin Jin; Eloy Gómez-Pellón

doi:10.14422/mig.i54y2022.010

Authors

Yangmin Jin Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-8396
Eloy Gómez-Pellón Universidad de Cantabria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1352-0200

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.i54y2022.010

Keywords:

Descendants of Chinese immigrants in Spain, the second Chinese generation in Spain, ambiguous identities, conflicting identities; construction of Chinese migrants’ identity in Spain

Abstract

This article examines the identity problem of descendants of Chinese immigrants as an effect of the migration. This research was carried out with the Chinese immigrants’ descendants and its fieldwork was obtained in Spain and China. The research aims to analyze how the Chinese immigrants’ descendants construct their ambiguous identities and investigate the factors which they perceive as influencing, such as family, language, prejudices, stereotypes, discriminatory experiences, and so on, that stress and cause the contradictory feelings about their identities. It is concluded that Chinese immigrants’ descendants experience a complicated process of identity construction, which entails ambivalences, confusions, and uncertainties due to some internal and external factors. However, over time, these young people will have the possibility to construct flexible and dialectical identities, which are main and complementary at the same time.

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Author Biographies

Yangmin Jin, Universidad de Salamanca

Doctoral student at the University of Salamanca in Anthropology. She has a degree in Hispanic Philology. She received a master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Language, Culture and Methodology from the University of Granada and a master's degree in Latin American Anthropology from the University of Salamanca.

Eloy Gómez-Pellón, Universidad de Cantabria

Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cantabria. He graduated in Law, Graduated in Philosophy and Letters and Doctor in Philosophy and Letters. He is an Honorary Member of the Iberoamerican Institute of the University of Salamanca. Before joining the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Cantabria, he was a Professor at the Faculty of Law of Oviedo. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux in the 2000-2001 academic year. He has held the positions of Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Cantabria, director of the Publications Service of the University of Cantabria and director of the Santander headquarters of the Menéndez Pelayo University. He has directed a dozen doctoral theses at the Universities of Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid, Burgos and Cantabria. He has published around 140 works in publishing houses such as Akal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Tirat lo Blanch, Antrhopos, McGraw-Hill and others, as well as in the following journals: Ethnologie Française, Revista de Antropología Social, Anuario Mexicano de Historia del Derecho , Anuario del Museo Nacional de Antropología, Anthropologica, Anuario Etnológico de Andalucía, Anales de la Fundación Joaquín Costa, Gazeta de Antropología, Gaceta Sanitaria, Anthropos Journal of Anthopology, Revista de Antropología Experimental, Etnicex, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, Scripta Nova, Revista Spanish of American Anthropology and others.

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