Speaker: LAN Shanshan
(Research Assistant Professor, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Time: 12:30 p.m. , Friday, 29 November 2013
Venue: Room 11 Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the African diaspora communities in Guangzhou, this talk examines the structural constraints faced by undocumented Africans in urban China and their various coping strategies. Specifically, it focuses on illegal residence as a business strategy in maintaining vital transnational trade networks between China and Africa. For many African migrants, illegal residence in Guangzhou is just one special phase of their life for the purpose of capital accumulation. It enables them to maintain a transnational advantage over traders in Africa. By voluntarily choosing a life style of circumscribed mobility in Guangzhou, undocumented African migrants have been playing an important role in facilitating transnational trade activities between China and their home countries.
ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME
Feel free to bring your box lunch or sandwich to eat during the talk
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