| Migrants between China and Britain play an increasingly important role in the context of globalization. Chinese Immigrants, as one of the vital part of migrants, have changed substantially in recent three decades due to the implement of China’s Open and Reform Policy in 1978. China’s openness brought up the surprising increase of New Chinese immigrants during the exposure of the population of Chinese immigrants also brought lots of problems to the receiving countries. Cultural integration is vital, but challenging problem exposed, and researchers highlight it.This paper focuses on the cultural integration problem of new Chinese immigrants in the United Kingdom. Differing from the traditional perspectives, this paper attempt to explore this topic from a point of view of migrants’ social networks. As a new perspective in recent studies, migrants’ social networks change dramatically, and different forms and sizes of them have broad effects on diverse aspects of immigrants’ life. So the complex effects of Chinese migrants’ social networks on integrating culturally Britain society would be assumed and examined. Specifically, the impacts on language acquaintance, social and political participation, identity and values, and satisfaction would be argued based on the literature and an empirical survey. Based on the critically understanding of related conceptions and theories, this paper endeavors to investigate how Chinese immigrants’ social networks affect their cultural integration. Through simplifying the complex MSNs, the MSNs relating to the phenomenon of China’s overseas milk powder purchasing boom in Birmingham have been taken as an example. So a related small-scale quantitative survey conducted in Birmingham. This paper suggests that the value and impacts of Chinese immigrants’ social networks should not be ignored, and these social networks’ influences on cultural integration into the UK are complex in the background of globalization. |
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