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Mapping the New African Diaspora in China - Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging (Hardcover)
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Mapping the New African Diaspora in China - Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
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When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind
will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America.
But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and,
in particular, within China, where race is such a politically
sensitive topic? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research in
China and Nigeria, Mapping the New African Diaspora in China
explores a new wave of African migration to South China in the
context of the expansion of Sino/African trade relations and the
global circulation of racial knowledge. Indeed, grassroots
perspectives of China/Africa trade relations are foregrounded
through the examination of daily interactions between Africans and
rural-to-urban Chinese migrants in various informal trade spaces in
Guangzhou. These Afro-Chinese encounters have the potential to not
only help reveal the negotiated process of mutual racial learning,
but also to subvert hegemonic discourses such as Sino/African
friendship and white supremacy in subtle ways. However, as Lan
demonstrates within this enlightening volume, the transformative
power of such cross-cultural interactions is severely limited by
language barrier, cultural differences, and the Chinese state's
stringent immigration control policies. This book will appeal to
scholars and students in the fields of China/Africa relations, race
and ethnic studies, globalization and transnational migration, and
urban China studies, as well as those from other social science
disciplines such as political science, international relations,
urban geography, Asian Studies, African studies, sociology,
development studies, and cross-cultural communication studies. It
may also appeal to policymakers and non-profit organizations
involved in providing services and assistance to migrant
populations.
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