Chinese and African entrepreneurs : social impacts of interpersonal encounters /
| Uniform Title: | Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. |
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| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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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.