African transnational mobility in China : Africans on the move /
Castillo, Roberto, 1979-
African transnational mobility in China : Africans on the move / Roberto Castillo. - 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) : illustrations. - Routledge African studies ; 41 .
"Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies"--
9781000338119 1000338118 9781003111948 1003111947 9781000338096 1000338096 9781000338133 1000338134
Africans--China--Guangzhou.
Transnationalism--Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Guangzhou (China)--Ethnic relations.
DS797.32.G836 / C38 2021
305.896/051275
African transnational mobility in China : Africans on the move / Roberto Castillo. - 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) : illustrations. - Routledge African studies ; 41 .
"Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies"--
9781000338119 1000338118 9781003111948 1003111947 9781000338096 1000338096 9781000338133 1000338134
Africans--China--Guangzhou.
Transnationalism--Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Guangzhou (China)--Ethnic relations.
DS797.32.G836 / C38 2021
305.896/051275