Inmigration to China: Inconspicuous Migrants from Western periphery

The presentation focused on the Slovenian citizens in China in the 21st century. The author considerd their small numbers and national non-recognition as a distinctiveness in the fast-developing field of research on immigration in China. She discussed the immigration of Slovenian citizens through contrasting engagements with the economy in China and propose the analytical categories of “managers” and “entrepreneurs”. They link the former to the local emplacement based on the Slovenian companies’ production units in China and the drive for national groupness, and the latter to the search for niche opportunities in the huge Chinese market. The author also addressed this migration process’ temporality and detail the interplay between macroeconomic factors and the individual decisions of its protagonists.