With help from ethnographic materials collected since 2009, this work sensitively depicts the migrational and political trajectories of Asian populations in France. Following the stories of Qian, Pierre, Alexandre, Ailing, Lin Chong, readers will travel from the shelves of a Belleville grocery store to the aisles of Aubervilliers wholesalers, from basements that house dressmaking workshops to nail salons. These young French people are mobilizing both in the streets and on social networks to denounce racism, and are not shy about showing the color of their skin and self-identifying as “yellow.”
This book invites us to confront the patchwork reality of French society through the experiences Asians living in France.
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Ya-Han Chuang is a sociologist and a researcher at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED). She specializes in the movements and political participation of Chinese populations in France.