Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World Afro-Asian Encounters /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cornelissen, Scarlett (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mine, Yoichi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Political Economy Series,
• Subjects: Political economy.; Africa-Politics and government.; Asia-Politics and government.; Globalization.; Emigration and immigration.; International Political Economy.; African Politics.; Asian Politics.; Migration.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Age of Migration in Afro-Asia - Towards a 'Multicultural South'?.- Part I. Connected Histories
• Chapter 2. The Little and the Large: A Little Book and Connected History between Asia and Africa
• Chapter 3. 'Many Makassars: Tracing an African-Southeast Asian Narrative of Shayk Yusuf of Makassar.- Part II. Asia in Africa
• Chapter 4. Associations as Social Capital of 'New Chinese Migrants' in Africa: Empirical Investigations of Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa
• Chapter 5. Liminal Spaces: Ethnic Chinese in the Borderlands of Southern Africa.- Chapter 6. The Construction of 'Otherness': A History of the Chinese Migrants in South Africa.- Chapter 7. Of Shark Meat and Women's Clothes: African and Indian Everyday Encounters in 20th-Century Dar es Salaam
• Chapter 8. Watching East Asia in South Africa: Imagining Cultural Belonging in the Age of Transnational Media
• Part III. Africa in Asia
• Chapter 9. African Traders in Yiwu: Expanding Transnational Trade Networks and Navigating China's Complex Multicultural Environment
• Chapter 10. Window to a South-South World: Ordinary Gentrification and African Migrants in Delhi
• Chapter 11. African Football Players in Cambodia
• Chapter 12. Travelling for Solidarity: Japanese Activists in the Transnational Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Chapter 13. Conclusion: Everyday Encounters in Afro-Asia Relations. .