African Trading Post in Guangzhou: Emergent or Recurrent Commercial Form?

Brédeloup, Sylvie

doi:10.1163/187254612x646206

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“…International migration has been an important vector of all forms of globalization. With the emergence of a form based on China's externalization, attention has been focused particularly on Chinese migration to Africa, although some research on reverse flows (African migration to China) is beginning to emerge (see Bredeloup, ). With regard to the former, Mohan and Tan‐Mullin's (: 590, Table 1) compilation of the estimated data (and ‘hard’ data are difficult to access so estimates vary widely) suggests that by 2007 there may have been nearly 600,000 Chinese migrants in sub‐Saharan Africa: workers, entrepreneurs, traders, etc.…”

Section: Vectors Of Transformation: Contributions From the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: Externalization, Dynamics and Transformations

Henderson¹,

Appelbaum²,

Ho³

2013

Development and Change

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This article introduces a special issue on globalization ‘with Chinese characteristics’, but also makes its own contribution to the debates. It does so by focusing on the implications of China's rise for the nature and consequences of globalization as a distinct formation. It argues that globalization needs to be understood, in part, as the externalization of particular national forms of capitalism in particular historical periods. In this context, it explores the Chinese form in some detail, arguing that this form is likely to provide much of the initial character of a new, emergent version of globalization now in train. The ways China (and other ‘rising powers’) are beginning to impact other parts of the developing world presages the need for a new approach to the analysis of ‘development’. This article is critical of traditional discourses, and argues that innovation around the concept of ‘transformation’, including a focus on ‘conjunctures of critical transformation’, may lead to more appropriate and adequate analyses of development and open up those analyses more effectively to ‘non‐Western’ voices. The authors discuss the ‘vectors’ by which China's externalization is transforming the developing world. They mobilize arguments from the other articles in the special issue, in order both to introduce their contributions to the relevant debates and to use their arguments as materials for the particular contribution this article provides.

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Section: Vectors Of Transformation: Contributions From the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: Externalization, Dynamics and Transformations

Henderson¹,

Appelbaum²,

Ho³

2013

Development and Change

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“…Others renewed their visas and remained in China. Some of them were former students at Chinese universities, had learned Chinese and were able to translate for itinerant African traders (Haugen, (Bredeloup, 2012). Chinese immigration laws, however, did not allow foreigners to stay permanently in the country nor obtain Chinese citizenship, which would have provided them with more security related to their economic investments.…”

Section: "Making the Line (Faire La Ligne)" Or Travelling To The Dragmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good quality or low price? Competition between Cameroonian and Chinese traders

Röschenthaler

2016

AEAA

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In the past couple of decades, the variety of affordable trade goods in African markets as well as the number of both African and Chinese traders who import such goods from China have grown gradually. Through interviews with travelling traders and observations made in Cameroonian markets, this article examines the trajectories of Cameroonian traders who travel to China, and other Asian countries; it also studies their experiences of rivalry with Chinese traders in Cameroon whom they accuse of unfair competition. This article argues that different categories of Cameroonian traders experience this competition with a different intensity and that travelling traders who are not yet fully established in the local market feel mostly challenged by the competition with Chinese traders. To improve their situation, all traders argue that the Cameroonian government ought to intensify its efforts in regulating trade and reducing customs fees and taxes.

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“…Notably, the emerging China-Africa relations have resulted in new mobility flows of goods, capital and people, in both directions. It is documented that many of the emerging trade relations have an informal and grassroots character and rely on highly mobile and flexible traders originating from Africa [43,44]. These traders move in and out to China and reside for different periods of time in cities, such as Guangzhou and Beijing.…”

Section: Connecting Mobilities; Transnational Migration and Informal mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These traders move in and out to China and reside for different periods of time in cities, such as Guangzhou and Beijing. In this context of mobility and flexibility, it is not easy to distinguish -settler migrants‖ from -free-floating traders‖, let alone to identify integrated diaspora communities [44]. -Traders‖ sometimes behave like -migrants‖ and stay for longer periods of time in a particular place, and over time, -migrants‖ may become -traders‖ who commute as flexible actors between different places [43].…”

Section: Connecting Mobilities; Transnational Migration and Informal mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Transit Migrants to Trading Migrants: Development Opportunities for Nigerians in the Transnational Trade Sector of Istanbul

Schapendonk

2013

Sustainability

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This paper critically discusses the relation between human mobility and development. It moves away from conventional migration-development policy discussions that mainly focus on diaspora-like actors, who have established a stable and integrated socio-economic position in the destination countries. Instead, it looks at mobility-development dynamics in the context of less privileged and less integrated migrants; Nigerian migrants who are (or have been) living in transit-like situations in the city of Istanbul (Turkey). Based on in-depth interviews with Nigerian migrants, it analyses migrants' personal developments in the light of their migration trajectories. The analysis particularly shows how upward social mobility is not so much found in onward migration to Europe, but in getting involved in a different form of mobility; informally arranged transnational trade between Turkey and West Africa. It outlines the diverse roles of migrants in this informal trade sector and elaborates on their relations with fly in/fly out traders originating from Africa. With these empirical insights, I conclude that these migrants do not belong to settled diaspora communities, but nevertheless, act as bridges between -here‖ and -there‖ and contribute to the creation of (new) development corridors.

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African Trading Post in Guangzhou: Emergent or Recurrent Commercial Form?

Cited by 34 publications

References 8 publications

Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: Externalization, Dynamics and Transformations

Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: Externalization, Dynamics and Transformations

Good quality or low price? Competition between Cameroonian and Chinese traders

From Transit Migrants to Trading Migrants: Development Opportunities for Nigerians in the Transnational Trade Sector of Istanbul

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