BEATRICE ZANI
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE UMR 3320)/Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Economic Sociology, Faculty Member
University Of Tuebingen, European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Research Associate
Beatrice is a sociologist, research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/ Interdisciplinary Unit for Economic Sociology (LISE UMR 3302). She received her PhD from Lyon University (2019), and she has previously been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tuebingen (Germany), and at McGill University (Canada). She is a research associate at the European Research Center of Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT)/University of Tuebingen, and at the Taiwan Studies Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She also serves as a board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS). Her research interests include economic sociology, transnational labor and marriage migration, gender, global work and inequality, migrant entrepreneurship, digitality, and globalization. Drawing on the case study of transnational labor in the Asian shipping sector (China, Taiwan, Singapore), her ongoing research explores the link between migration, digitality, global work and migrant entrepreneurship in the transformation of the global economy and globalization. Her work has been awarded the Mobility Prize by the Mobile Lives Forum; the Lyon 2 University Dissertation Award, and the Young Author Award by the journal Sociologie du Travail.
Personal Web Page: https://lise-cnrs.cnam.fr/le-laboratoire/les-membres-du-lise/beatrice-zani--1453414.kjsp#/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-4368
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Personal Web Page: https://lise-cnrs.cnam.fr/le-laboratoire/les-membres-du-lise/beatrice-zani--1453414.kjsp#/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-4368
Address: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE UMR 3320)
Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Economic Sociology (LISE)
2 rue Conté, accès 39, 3e ét.
Office: 39.3.26
75003, Paris, France
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Southeast Asian migrant workers who left the formal sector
of the labour market and entered the informal agricultural
sector before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in
Taiwan. Drawing on observations of migrants' daily lives
and farm work and 19 in-depth interviews, it delves into
migrants' subjective experiences of vulnerability, paternalism, exploitation, and control at work due to a lack of legal
protection and the illegality of their employment. Although
the literature has identified a link between ‘running away’
from formal employment and seeking freedom, this
research suggests a continuum between experiences of
work in the formal and informal economic sectors. The
paper sheds new light on mobility, work, illegality, and informality and how these have constantly shaped ‘runaway’
workers' subjective experiences of freedom and unfreedom
during the pandemic.
women’s entrepreneurship in Taiwan, this paper illuminates the role of
digital migrant entrepreneurship in the making of globalisation. In the digital age of gendered migrant entrepreneurship, it challenges the long-lasting dichotomy between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ globalisation and
contributes to the theoretical debate about migrant transnational
entrepreneurship, elucidating how capitalism and globalisation can take
multiple forms. Drawing on Chinese women’s migratory biographies and the commercial geographies of the objects they trade between China and
Taiwan, it shows how our global economic system is simultaneously forged by supply-chain capitalism and migrants’ digitalised petit capitalistic practices. Chinese migrant workers firstly manufacture goods whilst working for multinational companies in China, then, after marriage-migration, they commercialise the products in Taiwan via WeChat. Findings illustrate the link between ICTs, migrant entrepreneurship, gendered social networks, and border transgressions in shaping a mutable globalisation.
在数字化的国际迁移时代,中国新移民的创业活动越来越多地在网上进行。本文以在台湾的中国大陆女性婚姻移民的电子商业为案例,从性别和情感的层面来研究移民创业问题。文章考察了中国大陆女性移民如何利用网络社交媒体平台“微信”发展跨境网络和虚拟商贸回路以实现其经济目标,同时适应新的居住地社会。文章分析了情感因素对创业的影响及在“争议性”商品销售中的作用—这些商品的网上流通超越了交易规则和边界。本研究丰富了移民创业转型,特别是离散华人群体的创业转型的实证文献。从理论上讲,中国大陆女性婚姻移民的数字化创业的实证案例促使我们重新思考网上平台以及情感因素在移民商業活動中日益凸显的重要性.
Southeast Asian migrant workers who left the formal sector
of the labour market and entered the informal agricultural
sector before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in
Taiwan. Drawing on observations of migrants' daily lives
and farm work and 19 in-depth interviews, it delves into
migrants' subjective experiences of vulnerability, paternalism, exploitation, and control at work due to a lack of legal
protection and the illegality of their employment. Although
the literature has identified a link between ‘running away’
from formal employment and seeking freedom, this
research suggests a continuum between experiences of
work in the formal and informal economic sectors. The
paper sheds new light on mobility, work, illegality, and informality and how these have constantly shaped ‘runaway’
workers' subjective experiences of freedom and unfreedom
during the pandemic.
women’s entrepreneurship in Taiwan, this paper illuminates the role of
digital migrant entrepreneurship in the making of globalisation. In the digital age of gendered migrant entrepreneurship, it challenges the long-lasting dichotomy between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ globalisation and
contributes to the theoretical debate about migrant transnational
entrepreneurship, elucidating how capitalism and globalisation can take
multiple forms. Drawing on Chinese women’s migratory biographies and the commercial geographies of the objects they trade between China and
Taiwan, it shows how our global economic system is simultaneously forged by supply-chain capitalism and migrants’ digitalised petit capitalistic practices. Chinese migrant workers firstly manufacture goods whilst working for multinational companies in China, then, after marriage-migration, they commercialise the products in Taiwan via WeChat. Findings illustrate the link between ICTs, migrant entrepreneurship, gendered social networks, and border transgressions in shaping a mutable globalisation.
在数字化的国际迁移时代,中国新移民的创业活动越来越多地在网上进行。本文以在台湾的中国大陆女性婚姻移民的电子商业为案例,从性别和情感的层面来研究移民创业问题。文章考察了中国大陆女性移民如何利用网络社交媒体平台“微信”发展跨境网络和虚拟商贸回路以实现其经济目标,同时适应新的居住地社会。文章分析了情感因素对创业的影响及在“争议性”商品销售中的作用—这些商品的网上流通超越了交易规则和边界。本研究丰富了移民创业转型,特别是离散华人群体的创业转型的实证文献。从理论上讲,中国大陆女性婚姻移民的数字化创业的实证案例促使我们重新思考网上平台以及情感因素在移民商業活動中日益凸显的重要性.