ISBN:
978-90-04-38680-8
,
978-90-04-38742-3
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 287 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Uniform Title:
Entrepreneurs africains et chinois
Keywords:
Afrika China
;
Beziehungen Afrika-Asien
;
Globalisierung
;
Unternehmen
;
Arbeitsmigration
;
Arbeit
;
Mobilität
;
Mobilität, soziale
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Außenpolitik
;
Politik
;
Wirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Tagungsbericht
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: From rejection to social change / Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel -- Part 1. Others in distant places: opportunities for social mobility -- Social mobility of Chinese migrants in Ghana: the making of Chinese entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam -- The impact of migration of the Chinese women in Niamey on gender and family relations / Naima Topkiran -- African cultural brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews -- Early Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: contract labourers and traders / Yoon Jung Park -- Part 2. Encounters with the other, stimuli for social change -- Grassroots social change triggered by Africa-China encounters in urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang -- Business partners and employers: Chinese traders as facilitators of grassroots social innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese -- A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan -- The Chinese factor in Senegal: changing entrepreneurial dynamics, and socio-economic restructuring / Amy Niang -- Part 3. The products of others: 'Made in China' as imaginary and opportunity -- This "Made in China" that gets africa moving: chinese motorcycles and entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad -- "Made in China" and the African "China dream": an alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing -- Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods: negotiating imaginaries of authenticity in Accra's China trade / Alena Thiel.
Note:
"This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title "Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impacts sociaux d'une rencontre particulière". - Includes a selection of work by paticipants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013 ...
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