Chinese Immigrants Acting as Local Residents: De facto Citizenship in the Banlieues of Paris.

Urban violence and threats to personal safety are everyday issues of shared concern for Chinese migrants in France. They push Chinese migrants to act as local residents and to interact with the host country in various and unexpected ways, whether openly or inconspicuously, in order to improve their living environment and negotiate their place in the host society. Drawing on an ethnography of Chinese immigrants living in the banlieues of Paris and their everyday social practices in relation to the issues of violence and insecurity, this article documents the strategies of everyday resistance used by Chinese immigrants, grounded in their local knowledge. In a shift toward further local participation, they perform these actions as local residents, resulting in a de facto citizenship. 摘要: 城市暴力与不安全是与在法华人密切相关的议题。出乎意料的是，这一让华人深受其扰的问题却推动了他们以在地居民的角色与移居国进行各种或公开的或隐蔽的互动，旨在改善移民自己所处的居住环境，并以此为契机对自己在移居国的位置进行讨价还价。本文基于对一处位于巴黎郊区的中国移民聚居区及其华人居民围绕着与暴力和不安全问题所做的日常社会实践的民族志调查，分析了中国移民基于他们积累的当地知识而发展出来的日常抗争策略。在此基础上，这些作为在地居民的实践推动中国移民更深入地参与到当地的社会生活之中，并最终产生了事实公民身份。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]