A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria

Lampert, Ben; Mohan, Giles

doi:10.1163/9789004387423_009

Chinese and African Entrepreneurs 2019

DOI: 10.1163/9789004387423_009

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A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria

Ben Lampert¹,

Giles Mohan²

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Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South

Asiedu,

Tapsoba,

Gelb

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

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This chapter looks at three types of resource flows in South–South migration—financial flows of remittances and diaspora investment, trade flows of goods and services, and knowledge flows relating to skills development and production and organisational technology for enterprises. The chapter provides an overview of each of the three flows, covering both formal and informal resource flows. The chapter argues that the South–South component of resource flows has barely been addressed in the existing literature, focusing overwhelmingly on North-South flows with greater aggregate value and ignoring the migrant and diaspora population from the Global South. Secondly, it argues that many resource flows are informal and that trying to “formalise” these will leave many—both migrants and citizens—in jeopardy because they will not have access to flows of finance, trade and knowledge. Finally, the chapter argues that there is a need to think about how the development impact of South–South flows differs from North-South flows, if at all, so that the potentially unequalising impacts of the flows can be addressed by governments, international institutions and migrant organisations.

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Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South

Asiedu,

Tapsoba,

Gelb

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

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Chinese Investments in Europe

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2024

Rising Power, Limited Influence

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China’s rapidly rising investments in Europe have spawned anxieties about the future of the Liberal International Order. This introduction to the volume situates the puzzle of China’s growing resources vis-à-vis its limited influence. Departing from flattened perspectives that predict either inevitable conflict or assured cooperation, the introductory chapter urges readers to consider the extent, limits and modalities of China’s power. Its contribution is three-fold. Conceptually, the chapter offers a relational definition of power that pinpoints attention to the ways in which China translates its growing investments in Europe towards influencing the preferences of host countries. Empirically, it outlines the different modalities through which China harnesses the agency of European countries towards its own (fragmented) preferences. Theoretically, the chapter introduces a dynamic framework to understand the interaction between state-society relations in China with state-society relations in European countries to comprehensively appreciate the extent, limits and modalities of China’s influence.

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Roy,

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Stroikos

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Rising Power, Limited Influence

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The concluding chapter distils key highlights from the case studies. China’s enhanced footprint in Europe is of a piece with its growing investments in transnational infrastructures that shape the contemporary global political economy. The conclusion responds to anxieties that such investments threaten to revise, challenge, and overthrow the Liberal International Order. It draws on a selection of the case studies to highlight the role of European agency rather than Chinese investments in straining the liberal order. Chinese power is entwined with the agency of states and societies in Europe: it is effective to the extent that China can harness European agency in favour of its own preferences. But these preferences, as another selection of the chapters shows, are fragmented and messy and do not singularly focus on dismantling the liberal world order. Indeed, as a third selection of chapters illustrates, Chinese investments in Europe may even result in the unintended outcome of strengthening the Liberal International Order.

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A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria

Abstract: The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria Book Section How to cite:

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Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South

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Chinese Investments in Europe

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