African Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move

ISBN-13: 9780367482268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 184 str.

Roberto Castillo

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.