迁徙与认同:中越跨国“艾人”初探

Migration and Identity:aPriliminary Research on the “Ai” people across the Border between Chinaand Vietnam

在全球化的背景下,人口的流动几乎已成为一种常态,区域研究成为难解释因人群迁徙而形成的地方社会的重要工具。作为环南中国海区域中的重要群体,"艾人"为客家人的一支,因所操方言为"艾话"而得名。由于生计、避难、避祸等原因,艾人在不断从福建、广东向广西,以及越南迁徙,形成跨国而居的分布局面。区域文化及族群互动也呈现出多样性和复杂性。因此,"艾人"的研究,既是以人类学的视角对区域研究的具体实践,同时可能也从民族志个案的角度丰富环南中国海区域研究的内容。

Population mobility has almost been normalcy in the context of globalization,so the regional research plays avital role in understanding the local society formed in people migration.As an important community in the region of the South ChinaSeaRim,Ai people are abranch of Hakkapeople and named after their ＂ Ai＂ dialect.Ai people have constantly migrated from Fujian and Guangdong Provinces to Guangxi even to Vietnam for livelihood and escape from disasters and trouble,resulting in their current transborder settlement,and the diversity and complexity of their regional culture and community interaction.Therefore,the research on Ai people not only serves as areal practice of regional research from the perspective of anthropology,but also enriches the regional research on the South ChinaSeaRim with the case study of ethnography.