Montée en puissance chinoise et nouvelles normes sociales en ASEAN (Malaisie-Cambodge-Vietnam)

China stands out as general condition influencing the national economic and political developments in Southeast Asia. Such a leading position might allow China to shape strongly the economic and normative regional framework: industrial and infrastructure investments could be an influential channel transforming social and in human rights standards in Southeast Asia. China’s investments  facilitate reciprocally the political pressures felt geopolitically and strategically by ASEAN countries. The present project is pictured around a tight-knit multidisciplinary group of researchers and doctoral students coming together on a prospective research: will China’s rise create also effects on social and human standards in Southeast Asia? We expect to establish whether the decline of European Standards and a possible social and human dumping are actually occurring in the Southeast Asia under China’s rising power. To do so, the project articulates tree main axes:

1. Commercial competition and work standards in South-East Asia within the framework of regional economic integration and expanding Chinese influence;
2. Wages, labor conditions and rights of ASEAN workers;
3. Association and the production of law under normative competition (EU/ China)

and will compare case studies from 3 countries: Malaysia; Cambodia; Vietnam. This project mobilizes political economy, civil law and labor law, political sciences, sociology and social geography to analyze in complementary ways the now social transformations -using the evolution of the social and human standards- in Southeast Asian countries linked through multiple and consistent channels to the rising China.