Roberto Castillo

African Transnational Mobility in China

Africans on the Move

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367630270
• ISBN-10: 0367630273
• Artikelnr.: 67823267

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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