The Researcher has successfully completed 9-month in-depth interviews and participant observation in Bologna. She also completed three-month ethnographic fieldwork in Prato, by following the research participants' social networks through snowballing. Based on ethnographic data she collected during the fellowship, she had delivered 6 conference publications, 1 invited lecture, and 1 journal publication to date. She also has 1 additional journal manuscript under review.
The main results have been primarily presented in the two publications so far. The journal article "Hopefully a Good Life", published by the open-access peer-reviewed journal Anthropologica, explores the generational differences in the understandings of the good life among the Chinese migrants in Italy. The article argues that such generational differences stem from the shifting tensions between the contested racial and national orders in association with Italy’s economic stagnation and China’s global ascendancy.
The journal article "'Nothing is More Important than Health!': Yangsheng Fever among Chinese
Immigrants in Post-Pandemic Italy.", under review by the open-access journal Migration and Society, investigates how Chinese migrants manage their health in a work culture which requires long and intense working routines and seems to be incompatible with popular Western conceptions of health and wellbeing. Focusing on their discourses and practices of yangsheng (nurturing or cultivating life), this paper explores how Chinese migrants actively mobilize the resources available to them in order to negotiate for a healthy body. It highlights how these diasporic and biopolitical subjects, as ethical bio-citizens, persistently pursue a good life through migration, labor and self-care.
