Seminar ‘Order doesn't come by itself’.

Research on China in Africa has only recently shifted from the inter-state to the interpersonal level. Despite this turn towards directly observable interaction between Chinese migrants and local populations, bias produced by both ideology and regional specialization seems hard to overcome. Combining Africanist and Sinologist perspectives in one research project for the first time, we attempt to present a more balanced assessment of the impact the activities of new Chinese entrepreneurial migrants are having on African societies.

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