Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa
Who are ‘the Chinese’ in Africa? Why are they there? As China’s engagement with African countries intensifies, and the size of the Chinese population in Africa increases, these questions have elicited substantial attention. Many attempts to provide answers, especially in the media and popular public...
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| description | Who are ‘the Chinese’ in Africa? Why are they there? As China’s engagement with African countries intensifies, and the size of the Chinese population in Africa increases, these questions have elicited substantial attention. Many attempts to provide answers, especially in the media and popular publications, are problematically based on uninformed stereotypes and undifferentiated notions of ‘the Chinese’, by implication a homogeneous group lacking contextualisation. Seeking to address such characterisations, this paper uses the digital communications of present and prospective Chinese migrants to provide a more nuanced picture of the motivations, preoccupations and migration experiences of private entrepreneurs and state-owned enterprise workers. |
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| spelling | nottingham-522302020-05-04T19:39:18Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52230/ Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa Sullivan, Jonathan Cheng, Jing Who are ‘the Chinese’ in Africa? Why are they there? As China’s engagement with African countries intensifies, and the size of the Chinese population in Africa increases, these questions have elicited substantial attention. Many attempts to provide answers, especially in the media and popular publications, are problematically based on uninformed stereotypes and undifferentiated notions of ‘the Chinese’, by implication a homogeneous group lacking contextualisation. Seeking to address such characterisations, this paper uses the digital communications of present and prospective Chinese migrants to provide a more nuanced picture of the motivations, preoccupations and migration experiences of private entrepreneurs and state-owned enterprise workers. SAGE 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed Sullivan, Jonathan and Cheng, Jing (2018) Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53 (8). pp. 1173-1187. ISSN 1745-2538 China; Africa; Migration; Online communications; Personal narratives http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021909618776443# doi:10.1177/0021909618776443 doi:10.1177/0021909618776443 |
| spellingShingle | China; Africa; Migration; Online communications; Personal narratives Sullivan, Jonathan Cheng, Jing Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title | Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title_full | Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title_fullStr | Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title_short | Contextualising Chinese migration to Africa |
| title_sort | contextualising chinese migration to africa |
| topic | China; Africa; Migration; Online communications; Personal narratives |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52230/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52230/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52230/ |