Title Mapping the New African Diaspora in China : Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging

Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages) Series Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity Routledge research in race and ethnicity. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Becoming Africans, Becoming Blacks in China; 1 South China as the New Promised Land for African Migrants; 2 Chinese Internet Representation of African Migrants in Guangzhou; 3 Issues of Credibility and Trust in Grassroots Trade Activities between Chinese and Africans; 4 Chinese State Regulation of Undocumented Africans in Guangzhou; 5 Status Mobility, Community Networks, and Translocal Belongings 6 Between Guangzhou and Lagos: Business and Family Strategies of Chinese/Nigerian Couples7 Negotiating Religious Freedom in China; Conclusion: China as a Key Site of Transnational Racial Knowledge Production; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Africans -- China Black people -- China African diaspora. African diaspora Africans Black people Emigration and immigration International relations Race relations SUBJECT Guangzhou (China) -- Race relations Africa -- Relations -- China China -- Relations -- Africa Africa -- Emigration and immigration China -- Emigration and immigration Subject Africa China China -- Guangzhou Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317203537 1317203534 9781315562162 1315562162

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