Mobility and the transiency of social spaces: african merchant entrepreneurs in China

This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective (primary and corporate) agency work in the creation of transient spaces, that is, translocal and transform...

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Hauptverfasser: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea (VerfasserIn) , Rafflenbeul, Birte (VerfasserIn) , Zhigang, Li (VerfasserIn) , Kraas, Frauke (VerfasserIn) , Xue, Desheng (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Population, space and place
Year: 2016, Jahrgang: 22, Heft: 2, Pages: 199-211
ISSN:1544-8452
DOI:10.1002/psp.1900
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1900
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Verfasserangaben:Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Birte Rafflenbeul, Zhigang Li, Frauke Kraas and Desheng Xue

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