The African trading community in Guangzhou: An emerging bridge for Africa-China relations

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 203, 2010, Pages 693-707

  Bodomo, Adams ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AFRICA; CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

HARNESS;

EID: 78650000832     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741010000664     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Brigitte Bertoncello and Sylvie Bredeloup, "The emergence of new African 'trading posts' in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, " China Perspectives, No. 1 (2007), pp. 94-105;
2. Adams Bodomo, "An emerging African-Chinese community in Hong Kong: the case of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions, " in Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed.), Afro-Chinese Relations: Past, Present and Future (Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies in African Societies, 2007) pp. 367-89.
3. Bodomo, "An emerging African-Chinese community in Hong Kong";
4. Adams Bodomo, "The emergence of African communities in Hong Kong and mainland China, " paper for Africa Table, Stanford University African Studies Centre, 23 May 2007;
5. Li Zhigang, Xue Desheng, Michael Lyons and Alison Brown, "The African enclave of Guangzhou: a case study of Xiaobeilu, " Geographica Sinica, Vol. 63, No. 2 (2008).
6. See e.g. Bodomo, "An emerging African-Chinese community in Hong Kong, " pp. 367-89;
7. Bodomo, "The emergence of African communities in Hong Kong and mainland China";
8. Brigitte and Bredeloup, "The emergence of new African 'trading posts'";
9. Li et al., "The African enclave of Guangzhou."
10. See e.g. Bok Rae Kim, "The African presence in Korea, " in Kiran Kamal Prasad and Jean-Pierre Angenot (eds.), The African Diaspora in Asia, Explorations on a Less Known Fact: Papers Presented at the First International Conference on the African Diaspora in Asia in Panaji, Goa (2008) pp. 436-44;
11. Paul Stoller, Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001);
12. Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Cong-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000);
13. Joseph McIntyre, Wurzel in zwei Welten: westafrikanische Migranten und Migrantinnen in Hamburg (Frankfurt am Main: Brandes und Apsel, 2004);
14. Bonnie Urciuoli, Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race and Class (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996).
15. Evelyn Kallen, The Western Samoan Kinship Bridge: a Study in Migration, Social Change, and the New Ethnicity (Leiden: Brill, 1982).
16. Li et al., "The African enclave of Guangzhou."
17. Brigitte and Bredeloup, "The emergence of new African 'trading posts'."
18. Jeffrey Cole, The New Racism in Europe: A Sicilian Ethnography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
19. In its 16 July 2009 edition the SCMP splashed the following sensational headline on its front page: "Africans protest in Guangzhou after Nigerian feared killed fleeing visa check, " with a large picture of black people protesting in Guangzhou, some holding bloodied shirts to onlookers. The SCMP is Hong Kong's main English-language journal read mainly by Western expatriates in Hong Kong, and this sensational reporting really caused a stir in Hong Kong and southern China. Ordinary people suddenly woke up to the presence of a large community of Africans in Guangzhou, with the uncomfortable effect that every African in Hong Kong and southern China was perceived as a potential illegal immigrant.
20. Michael Sullivan, "The 1988-89 Nanjing anti-African protests: racial nationalism or national racism?" The China Quarterly, No 138 (1994), pp. 438-57.
21. Michael Sullivan, "The 1988-89 Nanjing anti-African protests: racial nationalism or national racism?" The China Quarterly, No 138 (1994), pp. 438-57., Ibid.
22. Li et al., "The African enclave of Guangzhou."
23. The South Metropolis Daily in its January 2008 edition wrote: "Due to the skin color of black or brown of Africans here, the region is called 'Chocolate City' by Guangzhou people."
24. Bodomo, "The emergence of African communities in Hong Kong and mainland China."
25. Bodomo, "An emerging African-Chinese community in Hong Kong, " pp. 367-89.
26. Age-wise, these are people mostly in their 20s and 30s; in terms of gender there are more men than women; and in terms of schooling, many of them have finished high school and some even have tertiary education.
27. For other reasons for this West African preponderance, especially with Ghanaians, Guineans and Malians
28. see Bodomo, Africans in China, book manuscript in preparation.
29. see Bodomo, Africans in China, book manuscript in preparation., Ibid.
30. Other activities such as festivals, dancing and worship are discussed in
31. Other activities such as festivals, dancing and worship are discussed in, ibid.
32. They are now given only six-month visas.
33. The author thanks Dr Li Zhigang of Sun Yat-sen University for coming to this meeting and participating in our deliberations.