On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city

Haugen, Heidi Østbø; Carling, Jørgen

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“…Although many respondents are satisfied with the low price of Chinese products they buy in Chinese stores, many of them in the same breath criticize these products for their inferior quality. This is exactly what Haugen and Carling (2005) found for Cape Verde.…”

Section: Zambians Views Of Chinese People In Zambiasupporting

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“…More than half (52.5%) of the complaints relate to poor pay, bad work conditions, safety, violations of the Zambian labor laws, and verbal and physical violence. As in other African countries, all major Zambian cities have one or multiple "Chinese shops", a store of varying size run by one or two Chinese people and stocked with cheap consumer goods ranging from pens to shoes to children's toys (Haugen and Carling;. With respect to the impact of Chinese investments on Zambian businesses, the results of the survey paint a complicated picture.…”

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A survey of Zambian views on Chinese People and their involvement in Zambia

Bracht¹

2013

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Section: Zambians Views Of Chinese People In Zambiasupporting

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A survey of Zambian views on Chinese People and their involvement in Zambia

Bracht¹

2013

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“…The appearance of these networks has elicited both praise for supplying a large number of Africans with consumer goods -including ones as simple as shoes -that had until now been unaffordable (e.g. Østbø Haugen and Carling 2005) and hostility, including the full list of accusations known from Eastern Europe: unfair competition, smuggling, inferior quality, illegal immigration, ruining local industries, taking local jobs, and simply 'invading' foreign countries by virtue of sheer numbers, if not already then surely in the immediate future. Even more than in Eastern Europe, Chinese shopkeepers have also been subjected to physical hostility in a number of African and Pacific countries.…”

Section: Chinese Entrepreneurs In Poor Countries 149mentioning

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Chinese entrepreneurs in poor countries: a transnational ‘middleman minority’ and its futures

Nyíri¹

2011

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

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“…These new destination countries have become particularly attractive to Chinese traders also because they have weak links to the global economy, and do not have severe restriction to immigration. Consequently, many African countries, such as Morocco, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Namibia and Cape Verde, have become new, attractive destinations for Chinese migrants who operate in trade and/or services as transnational, petty entrepreneurs (Haugen and Carling 2005;Mohan and Tan-Mullins 2009: 595). Similarly, countries of Central and South Eastern Europe (SEE), such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Serbia, have also become profitable business options (Chang et al 2011;Krasteva 2005;Nyiri 2007Nyiri , 2003Nyiri , 1999).…”

Section: Attractiveness Of Serbia For Chinese Traders: the Local Contmentioning

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Transnational pathways to integration: Chinese traders in Serbia

Korač

2013

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This article focuses on the process of integration of Chinese immigrants in Serbia. It is based on a pilot study conducted among Chinese traders in Belgrade, and examines the ways in which this highly mobile group of people is becoming incorporated into the Serbian society. The discussion points to a set of opportunities that Serbia as a transition society and a non-immigrant country offers to Chinese traders who have been settling in Belgrade andThe collection of data for this study was carried out during my sabbatical, from September 2009 to January 2010. The primary aim of this study was to map the situation of Chinese immigrants in Serbia within the socio-economic and political context of the country, and to carry out original (pilot) ethnographic research among 'hosts' and 'newcomers' in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. During fieldwork 20 semi-structured interviews, with Chinese immigrants were conducted. This study also benefits from additional (15) semi-structured interviews with local women childminders, as well as officials, academics and other 'hosts' about the phenomenon of Chinese migration to Serbia. Additional data were collected through (informal) group discussions with Chinese traders during my many observation visits to the Chinese market or our gatherings over supper in a Chinese restaurant, which they frequent after their shops close. Discussion also benefits from data collected on the local media coverage concerning 'the exotic stranger in our midst' in order to shed more light onto the economic, socio-cultural and political processes underpinning Chinese migration to Serbia. The phenomenon of Chinese trading migration to Serbia, which is one of their newest migration destinations in Europe, 3 attests to a growing 'diversification in migration patterns ' (de Haas 2008). It also points to effects of the socio-economic and political contexts and processes specific to China and its response to globalisation and restructuring. To understand the presence of traders from China in Serbia it is important to understand the ways in which global restructuring shapes transnational processes and practices linking new sending and destination areas (Pieke et al. 2004;Skeldon 2007;Thunø 2007). Intersections of these intertwined with the agency of the people who decide to move, shed a new light onto the notion of desired or attractive migrant destinations. In the following sections I shall discuss 'theories' on how and why Chinese migrants came to Serbia, analyse the advantages of transition society such as Serbia for establishing their livelihoods, and examine their incorporation strategies by focusing on the situation of Chinese traders in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. 'Theories' on how and why Chinese immigrants came to SerbiaChinese migrants started arriving in Belgrade and Serbia in 1996-97. This period was in many ways the 'post-war moment' in the country. Although the armed conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia had ended (1991-95), the country was heading towards a full-scale armed conflict in K...

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On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city

Cited by 142 publications

References 12 publications

A survey of Zambian views on Chinese People and their involvement in Zambia

A survey of Zambian views on Chinese People and their involvement in Zambia

Chinese entrepreneurs in poor countries: a transnational ‘middleman minority’ and its futures

Transnational pathways to integration: Chinese traders in Serbia

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