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African Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move book cover

1st Edition

African Transnational Mobility in China Africans on the Move

By Roberto Castillo Copyright 2021
198 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African... Read more

Preface. a fleeting encounter

Introduction. Foreigners in China

1. The emergence of the ‘Chocolate City’: multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies

2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other ‘things’

3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the ‘politics’ of solidarity

4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou’s African music scene

5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou

6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism

Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou

Index

Biography

Roberto Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has been researching African communities in China since 2010.

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