عنوان

Bazaar Pagodas - Transnational Religion, Postsocialist Marketplaces and Vietnamese Migrant Women in Berlin

شماره

LA124752

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Bazaar Pagodas - Transnational Religion, Postsocialist Marketplaces and Vietnamese Migrant Women in Berlin

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Gertrud Hüwelmeier

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakdown of the East German Socialist government, thousands of former contract workers from Vietnam stayed in the then reunified Germany. Due to their resulting precarious economic situation, a large number of these migrants became engaged in small business and petty trade. Some of them, women in particular, have become successful entrepreneurs and wholesalers in recently built bazaars in the eastern parts of Berlin. Most interestingly, parts of these urban spaces, former industrial areas on the periphery of Germany's capital, have been transformed into religious places. This article explores the formation of female Vietnamese Buddhist networks on the grounds of Asian wholesale markets. It argues that transnational mobilities in a post-socialist setting encourage border-crossing religious activities, linking people and places to various former socialist countries as well as to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Further, by considering political tensions between Vietnamese in the eastern and western part of Berlin, this contribution illustrates the negotiation of political sensitivities among diasporic Vietnamese in reunited Germany. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among female lay Buddhists, it focuses on entrepreneurship and investigates the relationship between business, migration and religious practices. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakdown of the East German Socialist government, thousands of former contract workers from Vietnam stayed in the then reunified Germany. Due to their resulting precarious economic situation, a large number of these migrants became engaged in small business and petty trade. Some of them, women in particular, have become successful entrepreneurs and wholesalers in recently built bazaars in the eastern parts of Berlin. Most interestingly, parts of these urban spaces, former industrial areas on the periphery of Germany's capital, have been transformed into religious places. This article explores the formation of female Vietnamese Buddhist networks on the grounds of Asian wholesale markets. It argues that transnational mobilities in a post-socialist setting encourage border-crossing religious activities, linking people and places to various former socialist countries as well as to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Further, by considering political tensions between Vietnamese in the eastern and western part of Berlin, this contribution illustrates the negotiation of political sensitivities among diasporic Vietnamese in reunited Germany. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among female lay Buddhists, it focuses on entrepreneurship and investigates the relationship between business, migration and religious practices.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

76-89

عنوان

Religion and Gender

شماره جلد

3/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1878-5417

اصطلاح موضوعی

Buddhism

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

transnationalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Vietnamese

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gertrud Hüwelmeier

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18785417-00301006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y