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Placing African cities in Chinese lives: a comparative study of migrant geographies
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Abstract Based on ethnographic research on Chinese migrants in Nigeria, Botswana, and Namibia from 2011 to 2015, this article has three lines of argumentation and contribution. First, it proposes a framing of migrant geographies from a humanistic comparative perspective in order to complement the political e... mehr
Based on ethnographic research on Chinese migrants in Nigeria, Botswana, and Namibia from 2011 to 2015, this article has three lines of argumentation and contribution. First, it proposes a framing of migrant geographies from a humanistic comparative perspective in order to complement the political economy approaches in geographies of migration. Second, lying in the intersection of urban studies and migration studies, it illustrates the different positionalities of cities in three aspects of migrant geographies - migrant space, network, and belonging - echoing the multiscalar analysis of city-making in migration processes. Third, specifically in the context of Chinese migrant geographies, three African cities, Lagos, Gaborone, and Windhoek, are placed in three migrants' geographic worlds, not always according to their positions in multiscalar power structures, but partly through migrant experiences in which top-down power horizontally works.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
China; Migration; Migrant; Nigeria; Botswana; Namibia; ethnische Gruppe; Lebensstil; Netzwerk; soziale Beziehungen; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Stadt; Afrika
Klassifikation
Migration
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Arbeit/Beschäftigung; Netzwerk (institutionell/sozial); Zuwanderer; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Seitenangabe
S. 130-151
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 53 (2024) 1
Heftthema
Chinese Migrants in Metropolises Abroad: Agency, Interactions, Belonging
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)