Who is behind? The Triads, the black company, racketeering, and the loan sharks - the most sophisticated variant - even Confucius. Get to grips with the mystery Chinese in our home - the "revolt" of Via Sarpi, 12 April - the media are inevitably finite in the funnel of the conspiracy.
'In China there's really nothing mysterious ... Just study it. " He said something like Zhou Enlai and Henry Kissinger in the first conference US-China joint press. Learning from the book by Stephen Camels, not surprisingly titled Chinese Shadows (Einaudi). With all due respect to the mythical Chinese Foreign Minister, Maoist version of the archetype of the wise Duke of Zhou, to study China and the Chinese is not chores.
Mastering Mandarin is a trial, by itself, has a life. The sociologist Daniel Cologne, codes of the research, the Chinese know (I teach at the universities of Pavia and Insubria) and a decade of field studies the community up-Milanese. We rely on him to de-construct some of the stereotypes about Chinese immigrants.
All media, including poster, call the China town Via Sarpi area. And you're pissed. Why? The definition
China town has a history and geography. For China town district means a mono-ethnic segregated, enclosed space in which Chinese immigrants were forced to live where they condense and ethnically exclusive services, including schools and hospitals. This was and continues to be part of the China town in the United States and South-East Asia. For example: when in 1900 in San Francisco last epidemic of plague broke out, the Chinese were banned from the shelter in the city's hospitals. In Europe there have never been the real China town. This area around Via Sarpi, where the first Chinese arrived in the twenties from France and Holland, is not never been a segregated area. 90% of residents are still Italian. Only 10% of 13 000 Chinese rule in Milan residents live there, others are in Affori, Niguarda and Via Padova.
If it is not a China town, what is via Sarpi?
E 'where the pole functional focus of economic activities in China. Until the Nineties, were shops and textile workshops. Then the manufacturing has been replaced by wholesale products mostly imported from China. In the square there are about 500 companies 'road'. According ViviSarpi, the association of Italian residents, 60% of traders Chinese landlord in which it operates. Who has not bought the premises, it has shelled out large numbers - between 200 and 300 000 euro - to 'take over' the Italians and pay rent on 3 000 € per month. Buying from wholesalers to retailers and via Sarpi bancarellai Northern Italy (including the Chinese are a tiny minority). For the Chinese, via Sarpi is a pole of dedicated services (travel agencies, paperwork, sales of DVDs, books and newspapers, herbalists) and a background clearance symbolic. It 's the place where a Chinese immigrant feels vaguely at his home.
The leader in Sarpi street? The question hovered over the "revolt" and reappeared on the deal to relocate outside Milan wholesale.
Take this retropensiero always. As Chinese we all look the same, dark and silence, there must be a force for capobastone giving orders. But the Chinese immigrants in Milan, although they come from the same area (rural, mountainous area around Wenzhou, the capital of Zhejiang, the province of South-east China) are not all equal. The community is very up-Milanese stratified economically and socially. They range from middle-class born in Italy that are known to move through the maze of political institutions and business, the proletarian struggle to understand the difference between a commissioner and a city councilman. In Milan there are fewer than 18 Chinese associations, none has ever field to represent the entire community. They are all associations of entrepreneurs who make their interests, used as a calling card for accreditation from the motherland. The Chinese company in Italy continues to be a family, clan-based. This prevents that there is one summit that all controls are all available. This is reflected in the negotiation with Palazzo Marino on relocation. Who is the Chinese people at that table? By whom and how they had the mandate to deal with?
of relocation has been discussed for at least five years. Then the oldest of the Chinese associations proposed San Donato. Not if they did nothing through no fault of the Chinese. So too will end in Arese? None of the common hinterland
paws on its territory for the wholesalers Chinese. Instead, all bridges are gold hypermarkets. I do not know for what reasons Formigoni has pulled out of the cylinder is the area of \u200b\u200bformer Alfa Arese. Who gains? Of course, the real estate owners in the area. It 'also true that the Chinese are not willing to lose. And I understand them.
Sarpi street traders have a reputation for being fearless and savvy entrepreneurs.
's another common place. 75% of them is the first entrepreneurial experience. To put the Chinese cross the river feeling the stones at random. And 'people who take risks, get into debt, he liver, but took its beautiful catch. Wholesale via Sarpi in recent years is in crisis. You are thrown in too, with the consent of the City now screams the free zone. The crowd has dropped the gains, while the costs to be amortized remain high. Whatever you do to finish the negotiations on the relocation - and the process will take years - the wholesale trade sector is saturated. E 'instead of expanding, and this is the real news in Milan, the entry of Chinese in local services: dry cleaners, newspaper stands, pizzerias, bars, hardware. The Chinese took over the Italians, without any new shops that maintain, even in teaching, the original imprint. This is why we talk about entrepreneurship camouflage.
Two weeks after the "revolt," Sarpi area in two Chinese boys were killed in broad daylight on the street. Mom the Triads, But ...
But the identity and location of the short life of the victims - one I knew - it was clear that the major organized crime had nothing to do with that crime. The atmosphere is that of youth gangs, a phenomenon that accompanies migration. It begins as thugs who do braggarts the restaurant, eat and do not pay the bill. And in some cases you have to take threats to their compatriots for extortion, kidnappings not reported lightning, the settling of scores between rival gangs for a Sgarro suffered. The protagonists are the lost boys of the generation that sociologists define 1.25, arrived in Italy with teenagers behind family reunification difficult. Do not go to school, do not learn Italian, rebel work ethic of their parents. Within a few days the authors of the double murder were arrested in Milan. The community they have not been covered and this breaks another commonplace, the silence of the Chinese. Of the Triads, criminal organizations born in Canton and Taiwan, involved in the smuggling of weapons and drugs, prostitution and dirty finance, in Italy there is no trace.
brings us to Confucius. It is fashionable to interpret China's success, and also of its migrants in the light of neo-Confucian model.
be distinguished. In China there is some time a revival of Confucius, sponsored by Premier Wen Jia Bao to trace historically the foundations of the 'harmonious society' Beijing says it wants to achieve. A message also turned out: they are named after Confucius institutes of culture that China is opening around the world. But the Neo-Confucianism is always a key to explain China. It 'was applied even to Maoism and, at least since the Seventies, Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. This is not the time to take stock of the effectiveness of an interpretative model, in rough summary, focuses on cultural heritage in order to explain the economy. Here I will only say that the Chinese migration in Italy Confucius contradicts at least one point. In our country, one quarter of Chinese entrepreneurs are women. This would not like to Confucius.
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