Migration and Making of a Multicultural City - A Case Study of Returned Overseas Chinese in Macao

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10.2991/iceess-18.2018.37How to use a DOI?

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migration, making of a multicultural city, returned overseas Chinese (Guiqiao), Potuguese Macao

Abstract

Migration and the dynamics of city formation are reciprocally correlated. Southeast Asian Chinese migrated to Macao since the 1960s, bringing ethnic food, clothing, ceremonies and customs from their host countries to this heterogeneous city. Thus, the making of multicultural city was incorporated with diversified components from Portuguese influence, Chinese communities and Southeast Asian features. Based on the oral history of the migration stories and the interview-based fieldwork in Macao, we retell the stories that Portuguese Macau accepted Southeast Asia Chinese after anti-Chinses riots. We examine what they brought to Macao, including cheap labour, capital and multicultural components. Moreover, due to their efforts, the city now remains a strong connection based on kinship and fellow-villager networks with Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam et al.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fang Xiang
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Migration and Making of a Multicultural City - A Case Study of Returned Overseas Chinese in Macao
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 144
EP  - 147
SN  - 2352-5398
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