Bio

Yingxin TAN, Ph.D. student of the 37th cycle of Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions at the Department of FISPPA (Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia, Psicologia Applicata) of the University of Padua, Italy; member of the editorial board of the Journal of Sport and Social Sciences “Eracle” since 2022. She was born in 1996 in China. After graduating in Italian Language and Literature from Dalian University of Foreign languages, China, in 2018, she obtained a master’s degree in Diplomacy (International Economics) at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2021. Her main research interests include Chinese migrant study, sociology of labor, cross-cultural study, and new media communication study. In line with her previous research experience, she has adopted both quantitative and qualitative methods into her research.

Abstract of the research project

The present research investigates the resources mobilizing strategies adopted by the children of Chinese immigrants in Italy in their working experiences, with the aim of exploring the mobility and mobilization of different forms of capital, which refer to economic, social, and cultural capital, on the career trajectories of young Chinese grown up in Italy. The primary purpose of this study is to explain the relationship and interaction among different forms of capital; therefore, the research focuses mainly on exploring the internal logic and mechanism of the accumulation, conversion, and transmission of different capital during the labor process of these young “Italo-cinesi”. Intersectionality is introduced in this study as the analytical framework to interrogate those less visible dimensions of discrimination that happened in the working experiences in order to understand both intercategorical and intracategorical complexity caused by their multiple intersecting identities. To illustrate differences and analogies in mobilizing resources strategies adopted by these young adults from different areas, multi-sited fieldwork is conducted in three Italian cities and their surrounding cities, where the largest Chinese communities dwell, including Prato, Milano, and Padova. The data of this multi-sited qualitative research is collected using semi-structured interviews, and then the transcriptions are analyzed using Nvivo software.

Publications (selections)

Ferrari, G., Diana, P., & Tan, Y. (2023). Tennis coaching in China before and during COVID-19. The mediatisation of a precarious profession.Contemporary Social Science, 18(1), 41–57.

Ferrari, G., Tan, Y., Diana, P., & Palazzo, M. (2024). The Platformisation of Cycling—The Development of Bicycle-Sharing Systems in China: Innovation, Urban and Social Regeneration and sustainability. Sustainability, 16(12), 5011.

Conferences (selections)

2022, September 15-16: The platformization of cycling: The development of bicycle-sharing systems in China. Cycling and Society Symposium, Cycling Beyond Growth Economies, Cardiff University, Wales (UK).

2023, April 12-14: Mobility and mobilisation of capital on the career trajectories of the children of Chinese migrants in Italy. 41st International Labour Process Conference University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Fair and decent work in a Global Economy?

Co-tutele and periods abroad

January 2017- April 2017 – Italian Language and Culture Course – L’Università per stranieri di Siena (Italy).

January 2020-July 2020 – Joint Master Program – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy).

April – July 2024: Visiting scholar at the University of Lausanne.

Education

2014-2018 – Bachelor’s Degree in Italian Language and Literature – Dalian University of Foreign Languages  (China). Thesis: “Analisi dei personaggi della monaca di Monza, di Fra Cristoforo e dell’Innominato nel romanzo I Promessi Sposi”.

2018-2021 – Master’s Degree in Diplomacy (International Economics) – Graduate school of International Organisations, Beijing Foreign Studies University (China). Thesis: “Mask, wear it or not? A study of the effectiveness of public Service Announcements from a Speech Act Theory perspective”.

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