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Chinese and African entrepreneurs : social impacts of interpersonal encounters / edited by Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Interactions sud-sud et globalisation : migrants chinois en Afrique et migrants africains en Chine (Workshop) (2013 : Dakar, Senegal)
- Series:
- Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
- Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
- Standardized Title:
- Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Labor mobility--Congresses.
- International economic relations.
- Labor mobility.
- Africa--Foreign economic relations--China--Congresses.
- China--Foreign economic relations--Africa--Congresses.
- China.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Contents:
- Introduction: From rejection to social change / Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel
- Part 1. Others in distant places: opportunities for social mobility
- Social mobility of Chinese migrants in Ghana: the making of Chinese entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam
- The impact of migration of the Chinese women in Niamey on gender and family relations / Naima Topkiran
- African cultural brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews
- Early Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: contract labourers and traders / Yoon Jung Park
- Part 2. Encounters with the other, stimuli for social change
- Grassroots social change triggered by Africa-China encounters in urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang
- Business partners and employers: Chinese traders as facilitators of grassroots social innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese
- A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan
- The Chinese factor in Senegal: changing entrepreneurial dynamics, and socio-economic restructuring / Amy Niang
- Part 3. The products of others: 'Made in China' as imaginary and opportunity
- This "Made in China" that gets africa moving: chinese motorcycles and entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad
- "Made in China" and the African "China dream": an alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing
- Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods: negotiating imaginaries of authenticity in Accra's China trade / Alena Thiel.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title 'Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impact sociaux d'une rencontre particuliere'."
- Includes a selection of work by participants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013, entitled: "South-South interaction and globalisation - petty Chinese entrepreneurs in Africa and African entrepreneurs in China"
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9004387420
- 9789004387423
- OCLC:
- 1048659295
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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