An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space

Li, Peilin; Laurence, J. C.; Xue, Dayuan

doi:10.2747/1539-7216.50.6.699

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“…Some African traders relocate to China, while others travel back and forth and commission African migrants in China to help them locate suppliers and manage procurement and logistics. The research published on African migration to mainland China has focused particularly on the ways in which migrants from Africa shape Chinese urbanity and the profiles and itineraries of African migrants who go to China (Bertoncello and Bredeloup, 2007;Bodomo, 2010;Haugen, forthcoming;Li et al, 2009;Lyons et al, 2008;Pelican and Tatah, 2009;Zhang Li, 2008). The economic organization of this trade has received little attention to date.…”

Section: Forum For Development Studiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Haugen

2011

Forum for Development Studies

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Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Haugen

2011

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“…In cultural geography, recently published works have introduced theoretical frameworks in new cultural geography (Li 2005), advocated new research methods and more nuanced analyses of microlevel cultural processes (Zhou 2007), and reviewed specific research topics (Chen and Zhu 2012;Zhu, Qian, and Feng 2010). In terms of social geography, introductory texts and pioneering empirical studies in the fields such as geography of welfare (Wang and Shen 2011), geography of health (Yang et al 2010), sexual minorities (Wei 2011), transnational migrants Li, Ma, and Xue 2009;Liu, Tan, and Zhou 2010) and the spatialities of crime (Liu and Xiu 2012) are also beginning to emerge.…”

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Charting the development of social and cultural geography in Mainland China: voices from the inside^*

Hong

Chen²,

Qian

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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This article provides an overview of the recent development of social and cultural geography in China. It discusses six major bodies of work: cultural areas, cultural diffusion and cultural integration; geographies of ethnic cultures; cultural landscape and cultural economy; place and place-based cultural politics; marginal social groups; and geographies of social injustice. Although social and cultural geography is still located on the periphery of the disciplinary landscape of Chinese human geography, it is nonetheless developing into a noteworthy field of research. We start this review by calling attention to some problems in epistemologies and analytical approaches. Social and cultural geography in China often suffers from an analytical separation between environment and culture as ontologically enclosed entities. Also, it pays insufficient attention to the mutually constitutive relations between the social and the spatial. However, more recent studies have begun to engage with constructionist/poststructuralist approaches, and develop less positivist interpretations of space, social relations and cultural meanings. This review suggests that social and cultural geography in China needs to develop broader research scopes and strengthen theoretical frameworks. It concludes by calling for constructive dialogues between Chinese and Western human geographical scholarships.

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“…Foreigners also reappear in these cities as a symbol of the integration of China in the global economy. A specific case is the appearance of African enclaves in Guangzhou, which serve as hubs for import/export activities between China and Africa (Li, Lyons et al, 2012;Li, Ma et al, 2009). This integration era has eliminated the figure of the socialist worker.…”

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Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Kesteloot

Cook

2014

Urban Studies

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Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process. Moreover, the speed of the present day process yields the impression that the traces of previous forms of urbanisation are erased for good. Both of these assumptions are challenged in this paper. The built environment resulting from this urbanisation process is to be conceived as a series of layers that reflect different modes of productions and related logics of production of space. Hence, we try to comprehend the spatial arrangement of the city, which can be thought of as a geological metaphor. The social groups that have to be sheltered in urban residential space also radically change in each of these periods. We proceed to analyse these layers and how they combine and interact over time with the concept of socio-spatial configuration, which denotes a precise type of residential environment related to a specific social group in the city. Chinese cities are made up of five types of urbanisation, reflected in five layers and their related socio-spatial configurations: the traditional, protoglobalisation, socialist, market-led and globalisation layers.

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An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space

Cited by 115 publications

References 53 publications

Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Charting the development of social and cultural geography in Mainland China: voices from the inside^*

Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

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An African Enclave in China: The Making of a New Transnational Urban Space

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Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors

Charting the development of social and cultural geography in Mainland China: voices from the inside*

Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

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