Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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.