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- Title
"China gives and China takes" African traders and the nondocumenting states.
- Authors
Lan, Shanshan
- Abstract
Based on ethnographic research in South China's megacity Guangzhou, this article examines the gaps and contradictions in the central and local Chinese states' eff orts to regulate migrant traders from Africa. I identify economic interests, everyday racism, and ideological concerns as three major factors in shaping the nonrecording tactics of the Chinese states. The article argues that nonrecording is a practical tactic pursued by both the central and local states in order to balance multiple and conflicting interests at the regional, national, and international scales. Due to tensions between diff erent levels of state authorities, China's policies toward migrants from Africa are marked by sporadic shift s between recording, nonrecording, and derecording, which contribute to the illegibility of issues of immigration in state bureaucracy.
- Subjects
CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; EMIGRATION &; immigration in China; AFRICA-China relations; RACISM; BUREAUCRACY; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Focaal, 2017, Issue 77, p50
- ISSN
0920-1297
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/fcl.2017.770105