Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World
Afro-Asian Encounters
Editors: Cornelissen, Scarlett, Mine, Yoichi (Eds.)
Free Preview- Contributes to emerging body of research on Afro-Asian relations and multiculturalism
- Includes a collection of case studies throughout the southern hemisphere, charting complex relationships between migrant and local
- Illustrates that there are connected histories, which unite Africans and Asians
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- About this book
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This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the entanglements and the lived experiences of African and Asian people on the move. Divided into three parts, the authors look at Asians in Africa, Africans in Asia, and the ‘connected histories’ that the two share, which illuminate emerging and historical modalities of Afro-Asian human encounters. Cornelissen and Yoichi show how migrants activate multiple forms of transnational social capital as part of their survival strategies and develop complex relationships with host communities.
- About the authors
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Scarlett Cornelissen is Professor at the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She works in the field of international relations, addressing broader questions of Africa’s place in the contemporary international system and more specific topics related to the political economy of Africa’s relations with East Asia.
Yoichi Mine is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University, Japan. His research focuses on human security and African area studies.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Age of Migration in Afro-Asia: Towards a ‘Multicultural South’?
Pages 1-23
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The Little and the Large: A Little Book and Connected History Between Asia and Africa
Pages 27-46
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‘Many Makassars’: Tracing an African-Southeast Asian Narrative of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
Pages 47-66
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Associations as Social Capital of ‘New Chinese Migrants’ in Africa: Empirical Investigations of Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa
Pages 69-90
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Liminal Spaces: Ethnic Chinese in the Borderlands of Southern Africa
Pages 91-113
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World
- Book Subtitle
- Afro-Asian Encounters
- Editors
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- Scarlett Cornelissen
- Yoichi Mine
- Series Title
- International Political Economy Series
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-60205-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-60205-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-60204-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95632-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 290
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
- Topics