TY - JOUR
T1 - Disharmonious Chinese ethnic business
T2 - intergroup stereotypes among Chinese migrant employees in Australia
AU - Li, Yao-Tai
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship [grant number ERF_RDDH_4425_2015]. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, I appreciate the feedback and suggestions from the audience at the department seminar. I also thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their constructive and encouraging comments.
PY - 2020/3/15
Y1 - 2020/3/15
N2 - This article focuses on perceptual divisions in the ethnic businesses and how PRC-Chinese and Taiwanese employees navigate and contest ethnic stereotypes within Chinese workplaces in Australia. Literature has highlighted internal ethnicity in the overseas Chinese ethnic businesses; but there has been little examination of the structural and symbolic aspects that lead Chinese migrant employees to generate specific ethnic stereotypes of other subgroups. Relying on sixteen months of fieldwork and in-depth interviews with thirty-two Chinese migrant employees, this article shows that the stereotyping of ethnic Chinese bosses as an integrated group and sub-ethnic stereotypes of PRC-Chinese or Taiwanese employers are symbiotic. Chinese ethnic workplaces in Australia are internally divided along sub-ethnic lines and refracted through employment relationship. Meanwhile, group interactions in the workplace reveal an awareness of ethnic differences and present specific ethnic stereotypes of others.
AB - This article focuses on perceptual divisions in the ethnic businesses and how PRC-Chinese and Taiwanese employees navigate and contest ethnic stereotypes within Chinese workplaces in Australia. Literature has highlighted internal ethnicity in the overseas Chinese ethnic businesses; but there has been little examination of the structural and symbolic aspects that lead Chinese migrant employees to generate specific ethnic stereotypes of other subgroups. Relying on sixteen months of fieldwork and in-depth interviews with thirty-two Chinese migrant employees, this article shows that the stereotyping of ethnic Chinese bosses as an integrated group and sub-ethnic stereotypes of PRC-Chinese or Taiwanese employers are symbiotic. Chinese ethnic workplaces in Australia are internally divided along sub-ethnic lines and refracted through employment relationship. Meanwhile, group interactions in the workplace reveal an awareness of ethnic differences and present specific ethnic stereotypes of others.
KW - Australia
KW - Chinese
KW - Ethnic business
KW - ethnic stereotype
KW - intergroup perception
KW - internal ethnicity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064171255&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1599132
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1599132
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85064171255
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 43
SP - 732
EP - 750
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 4
ER -