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Chinese in Denmark

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In 1995, some 3300 Chinese immigrants and their descendants lived in Denmark.1 Numerically, the Chinese are insignificant compared with the immigrants from Turkey and Yugoslavia. The Chinese also differ from other immigrant groups in respect of their early arrival (in 1902), their occupational pattern, and their choice of ethnic strategies. Even before the recruitment of ‘guest-workers’ in the 1960s, the Chinese had established a monopoly in the ethnic catering trade. Being almost entirely occupied in this economic niche, they generated an image as hard working and compliant. In Danish eyes, they exist only in relation to food; they are invisible as an immigrant community.

This study was sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Daloon Foundation, and the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. I would like to express my gratitude to my colleagues at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen and Arif Dirlik for their valuable suggestions with regard to earlier versions of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, UK

    Gregor Benton (Professor of Chinese Studies) (Professor of Chinese Studies)

  2. Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK

    Frank N. Pieke (Lecturer in Modern Politics and Society of China, Fellow) (Lecturer in Modern Politics and Society of China, Fellow)

  3. St Cross College, UK

    Frank N. Pieke (Lecturer in Modern Politics and Society of China, Fellow) (Lecturer in Modern Politics and Society of China, Fellow)

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ThunØ, M. (1998). Chinese in Denmark. In: Benton, G., Pieke, F.N. (eds) The Chinese in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26096-6_7

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