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| Author(s): |
Douglas de Toledo Piza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-10-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Vera da Silva Telles;
Nadya Araujo Guimaraes;
Fernando Rabossi
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| Advisor: | Vera da Silva Telles |
| Abstract | |
This research is located in the theme of globalization, specifically of transnational processes related to products and people mobility that makes São Paulos downtown a stage of the globalization from bellow. The research object are the Chinese migrants in the commerce galleries of 25 de Março street region, São Paulo. The research had an exploratory character about what is the role developed by these migrants, based in an ethnography made between 2009 and 2012. We argue that massive arrival of Chinese in the region of 25 de Março street was possible due to a commercial device in which galleries appear as an important sales model, whose proprietors are mainly Chinese migrants that came in the 1950s and 1960s. It is true that significant recent flow of migration occurs at a time of reactivation of the Chinese diaspora around the world in the wake of the effects of Chinese industrialization. However, it was the Chinese of the previous flow that could become importers of products made in China, which abound in downtown São Paulo markets, partially displacing the supply chain of products which previously passed through Paraguay to imports directly from the Asian country. There are more recently arrived Chinese sellers than importers and owners of galleries, but only the latter two types had a \"transnational condition\" that allowed them to legally open their businesses and, through social networks, connect themselves to the other side of the globe. Therefore they alter the scale of the trade practiced by engendering a new kind of sales: galleries full of Chinese merchants who sell products directly from the Asian country. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/13075-3 - Relational networks of Chinese migrants and informal commerce: a little of globalization told from the 25 de Março street around |
| Grantee: | Douglas de Toledo Piza |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |