ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the Chinese migrants' close relationship with the new modes of production in China, as well their lives in the receiving societies at the other end of this complex global flow. It verifies whether transnational migration theory is applicable to the Chinese migrants in this world region. The chapter examines the economic background of the Chinese entrepreneurial migration and explores the patterns of their companies' development, which can span the national and economic borders of several countries. The chapter conveys that South-East European countries are not only the transit zone for their further illegal advancement to the Western European countries, but occupy a region where a relatively stable number of the Chinese entrepreneurs live and work. The economic activities of Wink made several cities in the regions mutually connected within the global flow of goods and capital and spanning East Asia, Central, and South-East Europe, namely Budapest in Hungary, Belgrade in Serbia, and Sarajevo in Bosnia.