贰尘补颈濒:听qiuyu.jiang [at] mail.mcgill.ca
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Research Interests:听Anthropology of Law and Religion, Moral Economy, Immigration/Citizenship, Transnational Migration, Space/Place, Urban China, China-Africa
Project Title:听The New Merchants of Canton: African Migrants in Guangzhou, China
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Project Description:听My research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of anthropology of law, religion, Chinese urban studies, and transnational migration studies. My doctoral dissertation explores both the formal and informal legal practices of African migrants in Guangzhou, including their navigation of China鈥檚 rigid immigration system, their creation of听an ethical听business code, and their trans-ethnic and trans-national religious practice. My work also considers post-reform Chinese society, particularly: i) China鈥檚 restrictive immigration system based on ethnicity and blood ties; ii) the听party-state鈥檚听policies of population control and management; iii) the听party-state's听economic and religious policies; and, iv) Guangzhou鈥檚 urbanization process. Particularly, I look at how the formal legal system (i.e.: China鈥檚 restrictive immigration system) attempts to control, mediate, and regulate migrants鈥� experiences in Guangzhou, and, in turn, how African migrants negotiate within and around the formal legal system. I also attend to migrants鈥� religious conduct in Guangzhou as a form of community generated and generating law 鈥� a system of enforceable rules, ethical norms, and community identity 鈥� what I term a 鈥渞eligious common ground鈥� that serves to regulates African Muslims鈥� religious practice, establish social order, transcend ethnic-national differences, and shape African Muslims鈥� business conduct.
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Previous Education:听
M.A. Anthropology, Renmin University of China, Beijing;听
Dual BA Hon. Ethnology & Ecology, The Central University of Nationalities, Beijing.