Talk:Mauritians of Chinese origin

Last name formation

In the neighboring island of La Réunion, it seems to be common as well for people of Chinese ancestry to have as their last name the full name (three syllables) of a well-known ancestor.

Removal of content about new migrants from China

Perhaps the content about guest workers may or may not belong, so let's discuss it here. In my opinion, it should remain:

1. It's typical on these kinds of articles to discuss all sorts of migration even if it doesn't strictly fit under the article's title; many of the xyz-American articles discuss the new migration from the source country even if those people haven't become American citizens yet
2. An understanding of the phenomenon of new expatriates from China is also important to the topic; for example, many Sino-Mauritian Chinese-language newspapers are only surviving because of the subscription boost from guest workers, as mentioned in the article
3. The fact that Mauritius receives guest workers from China in the first place, as opposed to any of the other hundreds of low-income countries of the world, is a direct consequence of the ethnic networks that Sino-Mauritians maintained in Taiwan and Hong Kong. It's natural to explain what the consequences of those links are: this new migration.

I notice also that JuCAN is not removing the content about Chinese foreign investors, who are not Sino-Mauritians any more than the guest workers are ...if we're going to remove one, we should remove both. cab (talk) 04:39, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Reply

• I didn't think that the part about the guest workers belong here since they do not form part of the 'Sino-Mauritian' ethnic identity and talking about the new Chinese workers on the Sino-Mauritian page might imply that the Chinese workers should be classified as Sino-Mauritians as well. Why shouldn't they?

Sino-Mauritian identity

1. First of all, it is very important, perhaps, to undertand the self-identity of Sino-Mauritians. Being a Sino-Mauritian is not about citizenship, so a Chinese immigrant with a Mauritian passport doesn't make him a Sino-Mauritian in the eyes of the Mauritian community until the person is fully immersed in Mauritian culture via the language and other social dynamics (an example would be the older generations of Sino-Mauritians). This is very different from the identity of the Asian-Americans or Asian-Canadians. So, the Chinese migrant workers are not Sino-Mauritians, not only because they do not have the Mauritian citizenship but also, among other cultural things, because they do not speak the Creole and not even the Hakka dialect but Mandarin, which most Sino-Mauritians do not speak.

Distinction between the new arrivals and Sino-Mauritians

Despite having kept some ties with their traditional culture, Sino-Mauritians do not identify to the mainland Chinese culture per se, probably due to the high "Mauritianism" and very strong Mauritian identity in the country [1]. As Lemon Lau said in her study supervised by Hong Kong University on Sino-Mauritian identity, "Contrary to what could be observed in the U.S., when ones who looked like Chinese descendants being asked if they are Chinese, they would never give an asserting reply but they would rather say they were Mauritian. Had I not interrogated them further, they would not have given subsequent answer of them being a Chinese Mauritian." [2]

So that is why I thought it might be misleading to group Sino-Mauritians and Chinese migrant workers together, but I do understand how it can be relevant though.

About the foreign investors

Also, the reason I left the part about the foreign investors is because to my knowledge, the Chinese investors were more than often linked to the Sino-Mauritians in business (generally in the export-import business, more precisely in the food export-import industry). Since I was not sure about the textile business and that the book cited in the source was not easily accessible for me to check the exact reference, I preferred to not modify that part. My point is, the Chinese migrant workers in the factories do not actually work with the Sino-Mauritian companies in particular, but for Indo-Mauritian and Franco-Mauritian companies as well.

Suggestions

So, that is why, according to me, the part about the migrant workers should have been removed. However, I do understand your points and I think that if that part is kept there, it should at least be in another category (for example: Chinese migrant workers in Mauritius") or maybe another page should be written on the Chinese workers in Mauritius and that page can be linked to the Sino-Mauritian one. If kept on the same page as Sino-Mauritians, maybe it would be pertinent to explain the social dynamics between the Sino-Mauritians and the mainland Chinese workers. Do the Sino-Mauritians consider them as one of them? etc.

Another possibility might be to remove both parts about the foreign investors and the migrant workers.

I would like to add, as an additional note, that I did justify my edits, where as the user who reverted my edits (GlassCobra) just did so without any explanation. I appreciate you taking the time to explain why you think it is relevant to keep the part on Chinese migrants on the Sino-Mauritian page.

Thank you.

Ju CAN (talk) 18:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your detailed reply and sources. I agree that the page should clarify the social dynamics between the Sino-Mauritians and the guest workers from China. That will take some time to gather up good sources and write up a summary of them. In the mean time, I just left in a brief mention of the guest workers. The rest of the content that was originally there:

As of 2006 they earned US$100 per month in basic salary plus a US$40 food allowance, slightly more generous than the US$20 food allowance given to their Indian and Bangladeshi counterparts. They were accommodated for free in company dormitories, but conditions there were often overcrowded, with a thirty-minute queue for the bathrooms. Due to an intergovernmental agreement between Mauritius and China, they had to remit their entire basic salary back home, and were only allowed to retain their overtime pay and food allowance locally; as a result, many worked from 8:30 AM to 11:00 PM in order to earn another US$60/month in overtime pay.

Doesn't seem to help much in explaining Sino-Mauritian identity or their relations with the guest workers; I agree that part probably belongs better in some other page, so I removed it for now. Cheers, cab (talk) 00:13, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad we managed to understand each other's point of view! I believe that mentioning the guest workers is a very good idea. In the meanwhile, I will try to find the time off work to write a section on the Sino-Mauritian identity as well as the social dynamics between the community and the guest workers from China. Have a great week :) Ju CAN (talk) 01:28, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

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