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The Social Construction of Guangzhou as a Translocal Trading Place
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Abstract "Guangzhou has become a key destination for sub-Saharan African traders. These traders have established multilocal forms of business organisation and, in so doing, have developed diverse practices to overcome geographical, political and cultural boundaries. This paper focuses on these practices, loo... mehr
"Guangzhou has become a key destination for sub-Saharan African traders. These traders have established multilocal forms of business organisation and, in so doing, have developed diverse practices to overcome geographical, political and cultural boundaries. This paper focuses on these practices, looking at the ways in which the movements, relations and interactions within these organisational formations are produced, transformed and lived. A close ethnographic examination was made of the livelihoods of 33 African traders from 13 sub-Saharan African countries. Through the concept of trans-locality, the organisational formations of these Africans are conceptualised as links between different places on a larger geographical scale; these links then meet on a local scale in the specific place of Guangzhou. Following a relational understanding of spatial constructions in social science, these links are conceptualised as one of the main drivers for the social construction and transformation of the city as a trans-local trading place." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Handel; Kaufmann; Unternehmer; informeller Sektor; Ethnographie; kulturelle Faktoren; kulturelle Identität; soziale Konstruktion; China; Migrant; Arbeitsmigration; Afrika südlich der Sahara
Klassifikation
Migration
Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 17-47
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 44 (2015) 4
Heftthema
Foreign Lives in a Globalising City: Africans in Guangzhou
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)