Chinese and African entrepreneurs : social impacts of interpersonal encounters / edited by Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Giese, Karsten, 1964- editor, author.

Marfaing, Laurence, 1951- editor, author.

Conference Name:

Interactions sud-sud et globalisation : migrants chinois en Afrique et migrants africains en Chine (Workshop) (2013 : Dakar, Senegal)

Standardized Title:

Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.

Globalization.

Labor mobility--Congresses.

Labor mobility.

Africa--Foreign economic relations--China--Congresses.

Africa.

China--Foreign economic relations--Africa--Congresses.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

This book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in analysing the various impacts that the intensifying interaction between Chinese and Africans in their roles as ethnic and cultural others, entrepreneurial migrants, traders, employers, employees et cetera have on local developments and transformations within the host societies, be they on the African continent or in China. The dynamics of social change addressed in case studies cover processes of social mobility through migration, adaptation of business practices, changing social norms, consumption patterns, labour relations and mutual perceptions, cultural brokerage, exclusion and inclusion, gendered experiences, and powerful imaginations of China. Contributors are Karsten Giese, Guive Khan Mohammad, Katy Lam, Ben Lampert, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Laurence Marfaing, Gordon Mathews, Giles Mohan, Amy Niang, Yoon Jung Park, Alena Thiel, Naima Topkiran.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing

Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change / Karsten Giese , Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel

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

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

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

Index / Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing

Back Matter

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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"

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ISBN:

90-04-38742-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004387423 DOI