ABSTRACT
The conclusion does not only present the book's major contribution to a sociology of globalisation, of migrations, and of emotions but it also identifies new research directions for the study of the link among emotion, intimacy, and ICT in a globalised context. It opens with Fujin's new migratory sequence to Singapore, after she met her new husband through the online dating application Tantan. This brings about further reflection about the link between intimacy, emotion, ICT, and migration. It questions the growing use of ICT as dating instrument by migrants in the negotiation of transnational intimate practices and the emergence of an emotional capitalistic culture along mobilities. Simultaneously, the conclusion returns to the beginning of the story: how far can the orange bra go? The new pole of Fujin's digital economy ─Singapore─ shows how the bra's path constantly changes. From this new land, novel geographies of interconnection between China and South-East Asia can emerge. Considering the new itineraries of trade and commerce on the New Silk Roads, the final conclusions wonder about the future trails the bra may go through, as well as the role of Chinese migrant e-entrepreneurs both on the New Silk Roads and in the global world. This opens the field to investigate the ongoing reconfiguration of trade and work, and capitalism, where the poles of global economy are quickly on the move to the East. It is plausible to see in Fujin and her bra's journey the micro-social contours of larger-scale transformations of mobility and transnational economy: a challenge for the future studies of globalisation. New ethnographic and comparative research is needed to apprehend the changes in our global economic system.
