Entrepreneurship and interracial dynamics: a case study of self-employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China

Zhou, Min; Xu, Tao; Shenasi, Shabnam

doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1125008

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“…The field of immigrant entrepreneurship has acknowledged these limitations by incorporating an intersectional stand (Crenshaw, 1991(Crenshaw, , 1995 when looking at the ways gender, class and ethnicity shape the drivers and outcomes of migrant entrepreneurs. This has been emphasised by scholars accounting for the multiplicity of experiences of differences within the ethnic economy (Knight, 2016;Romero and Valdez, 2016;Villares-Varela, 2016;Zhou et al, 2016). This refreshing perspective helps the field to move beyond an over-emphasis on cultural and ethnic characteristics of the groups by accounting for the interaction with other variables, such as class and gender, which shape the spaces in the market that migrants are able to occupy as entrepreneurs.…”

Section: Gendered Migration and Labour Processesmentioning

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Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice

Ram

Jones

Villares-Varela

2016

International Small Business Journal

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This article assesses recent developments in the research and practice of migrant entrepreneurship by examining the powerful contribution that the perspective of ‘mixed embeddedness’ has provided to this field. We identify key themes emerging from mixed embeddedness, particularly in relation to the role of the institutional and market contexts, and highlight areas that could strengthen the perspective, such as (1) the role of regulation, (2) the incorporation of racist exclusion and (3) gendered structures of migration and labour market processes, (4) market ghettoisation and (5) greater sensitivity to historical context. We also consider the extent to which growing interest among practitioners in supporting migrant enterprise has been influenced by developments in the academic domain.

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Section: Gendered Migration and Labour Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice

Ram

Jones

Villares-Varela

2016

International Small Business Journal

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“…The social and cultural fallouts of this encounter are only beginning to attract warranted analysis. In particular, with an increasing number of Africans settling in Chinese cities and establishing families through unions with local women, the social and cultural issues arising from these relationships have taken centre stage (Castillo, 2014, 2016; Joseph et al, 2017; Zhou et al, 2016). This article examines how Nigerian-Chinese couples construct and embrace contradictory notions of home, as well as how their parenting practices manifest this paradox.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although only 13% of Chinese people surveyed in Guangzhou are willing to marry an African (Zhou et al, 2016), the ‘economic melting pot’ signified by the city has certainly allowed Afro-Chinese romances and marriages to flourish.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Everywhere is home’: The paradox of ‘homing’ and child upbringing among Nigerian-Chinese families in Guangzhou city

Adebayo

Omololu

2020

International Sociology

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Africa–China relations are facilitating different flows and inducing mobilities that have produced Afro-Chinese families in Guangzhou, China. This article examines how Nigerian-Chinese couples construct and embrace contradictory notions of home, as well as how their child upbringing practices manifest this paradox. The article uses data from life history interviews, repeated visits and in social hangouts involving both Nigerian-Chinese couples and individual Nigerian men in interracial marriages. Whereas Nigerian men tend to feel less at home, owing to problems such as perceived Chinese identity exclusivity, the uncertainty of life, and their experiences of discrimination and racism, their Chinese spouses, as internal migrants themselves, also feel similarly unwelcome in Guangzhou. Furthermore, Nigerian-Chinese couples feel obligated to secure the futures of their Afro-Chinese children due to a suspicion that Chinese society may not accept them. The parenting styles, hopes and aspirations revealed by Nigerian-Chinese couples regarding their children show that they view home as an un-centred category.

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“…Thirdly, members of both groups have experienced social and residential mobility, have similar patterns of incorporation and have been subject to similar stigmas. These similarities allow us to de-essentialise their distinctions and invite us to explore their differences in relation to their distinctive position in the receiving society (Park 2014;Zhou, Xu, and Shenasi 2016).…”

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Contested and interdependent appropriation of space in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile

Ramírez

Stefoni

2019

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This article examines experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the transformations of the political economy in an increasingly multicultural urban setting. Through processes of social production and construction of space, it explores the material, societal and symbolic processes at play. The entry points are memories, images, uses and material connection to Patronato neighbourhood (Santiago, Chile) by people of Korean and Palestinian ancestry. It analyses how claims of space authenticity, processes of ethnicisation and material appropriation of spacecommonly understood as given by 'cultural differences'respond to historical, economic and political shifts happening at a global and local level. Moreover, challenging the prism of socioeconomic conflict and separation, it shows emerging dynamics of social interdependence and adjustment, taking place alongside the reorganisation of ethnic boundaries. Such reorganisation allows settled migrants to develop a sense of belonging and control over space in a rapidly changing neoliberal city.

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Entrepreneurship and interracial dynamics: a case study of self-employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice

Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice

‘Everywhere is home’: The paradox of ‘homing’ and child upbringing among Nigerian-Chinese families in Guangzhou city

Contested and interdependent appropriation of space in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile

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