Chinese Migration To Europe Prato Italy And Beyond Loretta Baldassar by Loretta Baldassar, Graeme Johanson, Narelle Mcauliffe, Massimo Bressan (eds.) 9781137400246, 9781349486106, 1137400242, 1349486108 instant download after payment.

This edited collection is the outcome of long-standing research collaboration between Monash University and Wenzhou University about Chinese migration and settlement in Prato. As a measure of the importance of this phenomenon, the Monash University Prato Centre and Wenzhou University have been hosting annual symposia on this theme. The editors have been involved in convening these meetings, Johanson since they began in 2007 and Baldassar and McAuliffe since 2009. As local interest in this issue has increased, collaborations have expanded to include the University of Florence (in particular its Prato campus, PIN S.c.r.l.), IRIS (Istituto di Ricerche e Interventi Sociali, through the involvement of Bressan) and most recently the European University Institute in Fiesole. In addition, these ties have fostered important initiatives with the local, provincial and regional governments – in both Tuscany and Wenzhou – around social inclusion, regional and local economic development as well as opportunities for staff and student exchange. The beautiful cover image of this volume was painted by Dr Kequn Cai during his artist-in-residency at the Monash Prato Centre in 2011.