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DESCRIPTION:Please join Assistant Professor Douglas de Toledo Piza\, along 
 with \ndiscussants Professor Il-Hyun Cho and Professor Rebekah Pite\, for 
 a talk on \nChinese migration and informal economies in South America. \n
 \n \n\nChinese migrants are playing increasingly large\, stratified roles 
 in the \ninformal economies of South America. One of the clearest examples
  of this \nphenomenon is in the region's largest informal economy of count
 erfeit and \nsmuggled goods\, spanning from Ciudad del Este\, the Paraguay
 an border city\, to \nSão Paulo\, Brazil's largest metropolis. Here\, Chin
 ese vendors\, on the one \nhand\, are some of the most marginalized worker
 s facing a doubly difficult \nlandscape due to their precarious immigratio
 n status and their illegal \neconomic activities. They bear the brunt of w
 orking on the margins of the \nlaw\, and as a result do not always reap th
 e benefits of their own labor. A \ntransnational elite of Chinese business
 people\, on the other hand\, profits and \nprofiteers from the booming mar
 ket. They leverage their economic\, social\, and \npolitical power to bend
  the law to their favor and get away with \nirregularities\, violations\, 
 and criminal behavior. In Beyond Informality \nDouglas de Toledo Piza reve
 als the complex ways these actors interact with \neach other\, and how the
  law shapes those interactions. He argues that \nstructural inequalities i
 n the global economy push Chinese migrants to South \nAmerica\, while plac
 ing them\, surprisingly\, in positions to overhaul markets \nand tip the s
 cales of deep-seated power structures in the Global South.\n\n 
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LOCATION:Gendebien Room Skillman 206
SUMMARY:Book Talk and Discussion: Beyond Informality
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