The Formation of Ethnic Inter-Embedding:Structural Mechanism of Ethnic Livelihood Inter-Embedding in the Hexi Corridor
Ethnic inter-embedding is an important principle in China's ethnic work in the new era.This paper,through in-depth field research on a multi-ethnic inter-embedding community formed by a government poverty alleviation and development immigration project in the Hexi Corridor,analyzes the interactive practices between Dongxiang immigrants and Han indigenous people and the generative mechanism of the ethnic inter-embedding structure.The study finds that ethnic inter-embedding is a dynamic and multi-level progressive process.The inter-embedding effect of livelihoods between Dongxiang immigrants as resource circulators and Han indigenous people as resource producers has initiated the formation of an economic inter-embedding system.On this basis,spatial inter-construction,cultural assimilation,and identity integration have further induced the formation of a multi-dimensional inter-embedding system of society,culture,and psychology,laying a solid foundation for the adaptation and integration of immigrants and the interaction,exchange and integration of ethnic.This paper reveals the complexity and multidimensionality of the formation of the ethnic inter-embedding structure,providing a new analytical perspective on the rules of inter-ethnic interaction in the context of China's social transformation.