The Migration of Chinese Women to Mexico City

Part One: Chinese women in Mexican popular markets, starting with small scale processes of globalization.- 1 The networking components of street markets and 'popular' economy.- 1.1 Locating Tepito and its ramifications, deconstructing the 'centre'.- 1.2 Tepiteñes and spaces of opportunities, intersectional spectrums.- 1.3 Blended spaces: migration and commerce in Tepito.- 2 Made in Yiwu, to Tepito.- 2.1 Of bullet trains and hair garments, experiencing Yiwu.- 2.2 Blended spaces: migration, commerce and gender in Yiwu.- Conclusions.- Part Two: Herstories of migration, building spaces of opportunities.- 3 Building subjectivities in systematic inequality.- 3.1 The feminization of Chinese migration patterns, causes and effects.- 3.2 Growing up in a Chinese jia. What is the place of women?.- 3.3 Defying social constructions of gender. Migration, marriage and work.- 4 Mexico, land of opportunities? Migration as a search for survival and social mobility.- 4.1 The paradoxes of development. Education, employment and origin, indicators of inequality.- 4.2 Building networks between Mexico and China, strategies of migration and work.- 4.3 Constructing spaces of opportunities: transversal articulations between commerce and migration.- Conclusions.- Part Three: Drafting alternative spaces of globalization.- 5 From transnational urban formations to global cities.- 5.1 What are alternative spaces of globalization?.- 5.2 Constructing cities through belonging: bringing gender in.- 5.3 Vulnerabilities and resistances in the city, building networks of trust between guanxi and comadrazgo.- 6 The place of women as actors of transnational formations.- 6.1 Transnational motherhoods.- 6.2 Building transnational family businesses.- 6.3 Building bridges from space to place: ambivalent constructions of otherness, migration and discrimination.- 6.4 Building alternatives to survival and growth.- Conclusions.