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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study,The Language of Political Incorporation, Amy Liu focuses on Chinese migrants in Central-Eastern Europe and their varying levels of political incorporation in the local community.She examines the linguistic diversity of migrant networks, finding institutional trust and civic engagement depend not on national identity, but on the network's linguistic diversitynamely, whether the operating language is a migrant's mother tongue or a lingua franca. The Language of Political Incorporation uses original survey data to assess when the Chinese engage positively with the authorities and when they become civic minded. The results are surprising. In Hungary, the Chinese community has experienced high levels of political incorporation in part because they have not been targeted by anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. In contrast, migrants in Romania sought the assistance of the Chinese embassy to fight an effort to collect back taxes.Liu also compares the Chinese exp
