Does the Chinese Diaspora Speed Up Growth in Host Countries?

The trade facilitation impact of the Chinese diaspora

“…Following earlier studies that use R&T‐style ethnographic data, the Chinese diaspora in this study refers to the group of people that were born in or claim ancestry to China but who reside outside the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (Poston, Mao, & Mei‐Yu, 1994; Poston & Wong, 2016; Priebe & Rudolf, 2015; Rauch & Trindade, 2002). These definitions therefore involve Chinese born in mainland China but living abroad (first‐generation or foreign‐born migrants) as well as those Chinese that were born outside mainland China and who continue to live outside of China, in certain countries already for multiple generations.…”

“…Sociologists have further pointed out that Chinese business networks are often built on informal personal relations based on regional connections and kinship, sometimes referred to by the popular Chinese term Guanxi (Folk & Jomo, 2013; Hamilton, 1996). A recent study by Priebe and Rudolf (2015) extends the discussion of economic impacts of the Chinese diaspora to aggregate economic growth in host countries. Introducing a new, enhanced dataset on the population share of overseas Chinese covering 147 host countries in 1970, the authors find that a country's initial relative endowment with overseas Chinese is positively related to subsequent economic growth of host countries.…”

Problematising the (in)visibility of racialized and gendered British Chineseness in youth health and physical cultures

“…Chinese diaspora is the most widely spread diaspora in the world, being the third largest after German and Irish diasporas (Poston & Wong, 2016). It is estimated that there are more than 40 million Chinese residing outside Greater China, of which about 29.5 million live in other Asian countries, 7.5 million in the Americas, 2 million in Europe, 1 million in Oceania, and 0.25 million in Africa (Priebe & Rudolf, 2015). The Chinese are among Europe's oldest and largest immigrant communities.…”

The Role of Labour Standards in Shaping Migration: The ASEAN Perspectives

“…However, in more recent years, migration and development are now a recognizable subfield; it leads to increasing research that stressed on global migration flows and complexities between migration and broader developmental process (Clemens, Özden & Rapoport 2014). As the migration issue gains more concerns from the researchers and policy makers, research interests have extended to more nuanced issues such as the role of networks or diasporas (Priebe & Rudolf 2015;Beine, Docquier & Özden 2011;Tilly 2007;Massey 1990), linkages between cultural norms and migration (Bertoli & Marchetta 2015;Beine, Docquier & Schiff 2013), and different types of migration flows that stemmed from the dynamics of economic integration. Harris and Todaro (1970) suggested that international migration flows respond largely to regional disparities in prosperity.…”