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DESCRIPTION:Join International Affairs Assistant Professor\, Douglas de Tol
 edo Piza as he \nspeaks on his new book\, /Beyond Informality: How Chinese
  Migrants \nTransformed a Border Economy/. Discussants at this talk will b
 e \nProfessor Il-Hyun Cho of Government and Law and Professor Rebekah Pite
  of \nHistory.\n\nChinese migrants are playing increasingly large\, strati
 fied roles in the \ninformal economies of South America. One of the cleare
 st examples of this \nphenomenon is in the region's largest informal econo
 my of counterfeit and \nsmuggled goods\, spanning from Ciudad del Este\, t
 he Paraguayan border city\, to \nSão Paulo\, Brazil's largest metropolis. 
 Here\, Chinese vendors\, on the one \nhand\, are some of the most marginal
 ized workers facing a doubly difficult \nlandscape due to their precarious
  immigration status and their illegal \neconomic activities. They bear the
  brunt of working on the margins of the \nlaw\, and as a result do not alw
 ays reap the benefits of their own labor. A \ntransnational elite of Chine
 se businesspeople\, on the other hand\, profits and \nprofiteers from the 
 booming market. They leverage their economic\, social\, and \npolitical po
 wer to bend the law to their favor and get away with \nirregularities\, vi
 olations\, and criminal behavior. In /Beyond \nInformality/ Douglas de Tol
 edo Piza reveals the complex ways these actors \ninteract with each other\
 , and how the law shapes those interactions. He \nargues that structural i
 nequalities in the global economy push Chinese \nmigrants to South America
 \, while placing them\, surprisingly\, in positions to \noverhaul markets 
 and tip the scales of deep-seated power structures in the \nGlobal South.
 \n\nEnjoy this talk with a variety of Brazilian and Chinese foods and bubb
 le \ntea! 
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LOCATION:Gendebien Room Skillman 206
SUMMARY:Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Econo
 my
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