Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. The Age of Migration in Afro-Asia: Towards a ‘Multicultural South’?

   • Scarlett Cornelissen, Yoichi Mine

   Pages 1-23

3. Connected Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. The Little and the Large: A Little Book and Connected History Between Asia and Africa

      • Shamil Jeppie

      Pages 27-46

   3. ‘Many Makassars’: Tracing an African-Southeast Asian Narrative of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar

      • Saarah Jappie

      Pages 47-66

4. Asia in Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Associations as Social Capital of ‘New Chinese Migrants’ in Africa: Empirical Investigations of Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa

      • Liu Haifang

      Pages 69-90

   3. Liminal Spaces: Ethnic Chinese in the Borderlands of Southern Africa

      • Yoon Jung Park

      Pages 91-113

   4. The Construction of ‘Otherness’: A History of the Chinese Migrants in South Africa

      • Karen L. Harris

      Pages 115-141

   5. Of Shark Meat and Women’s Clothes: African and Indian Everyday Encounters in Twentieth-Century Dar es Salaam

      • Ned Bertz

      Pages 143-166

   6. Watching East Asia in South Africa: Imagining Cultural Belonging in the Age of Transnational Media

      • Cobus van Staden

      Pages 167-183

5. Africa in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. African Traders in Yiwu: Expanding Transnational Trade Networks and Navigating China’s Complex Multicultural Environment

      • Daouda Cissé

      Pages 187-207

   3. Window to a South-South World: Ordinary Gentrification and African Migrants in Delhi

      • Rohit Negi, Persis Taraporevala

      Pages 209-230

   4. African Football Players in Cambodia

      • Toshihiro Abe

      Pages 231-245

   5. Travelling for Solidarity: Japanese Activists in the Transnational Anti-apartheid Movement

      • Kumiko Makino

      Pages 247-270

   6. Conclusion: Everyday Encounters in Afro-Asian Relations

      • Scarlett Cornelissen, Yoichi Mine

      Pages 271-282

6. Back Matter

   Pages 283-290

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This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the entanglements and the lived experiences of African and Asian people on the move. Divided into three parts, the authors look at Asians in Africa, Africans in Asia, and the ‘connected histories’ that the two share, which illuminate emerging and historical modalities of Afro-Asian human encounters. Cornelissen and Yoichi show how migrants activate multiple forms of transnational social capital as part of their survival strategies and develop complex relationships with host communities. 

• International Political Economy
• Afro–Asian relations
• Migration
• Globalization
• 'Multicultural South'
• Social capital
• ‘One Belt, One Road’
• Human exchange
• Prayer books
• Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
• ‘New Chinese migrants’ in Africa
• African borderlands
• Otherness
• Dar es Salaam
• Cultural Belonging
• Transnational Media
• Transnational Trade Networks
• Gentrification
• Cambodian football
• Anti-Apartheid Movement

• Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

  Scarlett Cornelissen

• Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

  Yoichi Mine

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.

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