Chinese and African entrepreneurs :: social impacts of interpersonal encounters /

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...

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Main Authors: Giese, Karsten, 1964- (Author, Editor), Marfaing, Laurence, 1951- (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Interactions sud-sud et globalisation : migrants chinois en Afrique et migrants africains en Chine (Workshop)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Item Description: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."
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9004387420
9789004387423

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