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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-60204-6
- Pages
- 1 –23
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-60205-3_1
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter explains the motivation of the collaborative research project, gives summaries of all chapters and presents the theoretical framework of the book. As economic interaction between Africa and Asia intensifies, people’s mobility has accelerated across these regions. Empirical research on emerging migrant spaces is therefore much needed, and this book tries to elucidate the dynamics of interregional migration by combining a wide variety of academic disciplines. The editors present three main arguments. First, migrant communities in host societies can be interpreted as ethnic ‘exclaves’ of transnational networks of migrants. Second, in Afro-Asian societal contexts, relationships between communities can often be described as ‘aloof coexistence’ rather than integration and assimilation. Third, migrants make use of ‘bridging’ as well as ‘bonding’ social capital for daily survival, giving rise to pockets of active inter-group communication.]
Published: Jan 11, 2018
Keywords: Exclave; Transnational Trade Networks; Chinese Migrants; Tokyo International Conference On African Development (TICAD); Transnational Anti-apartheid Movement