1st Edition
Africana People in China Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment
By C. Jama Adams
Copyright 2019
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ambivalence and the challenges that migrant workers face around issues of self-development, agency, and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Self in the World
3. Adaptive Ambivalence
4. Modernity and Migration
5. China: Race and Ethnicity
6. Contemporary Blackness in China: Psychosocial Perspectives; Aspirations and Constraints
7. Africana Persons and Self-Making in China
8. Conclusions and Possibilities for the Future
Biography
C. Jama Adams is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, USA.
