Tag: Roberto Castillo
Part 2: Nigerian nightlife and money throwing in China
READ PART ONE HERE Money throwing as a practice By noon next day, I woke up in my two-star XaiobeiContinue Reading
How Africans in China challenge stereotypical views on African migration
By Roberto Castillo In a conference I attended in 2013, a renowned, Western-educated, Korean scholar of migration, stubbornly argued that AfricansContinue Reading
On Being Black in China
A relatively old piece (2013) but still relevant: People of African origin are still uncommon in China, but the infusionContinue Reading
Part 1: Nigerian nightlife and money throwing in China
By ROBERTO CASTILLO ‘African nightlife in China is as diverse as African nightlife can be’, I was told by Joe,Continue Reading
The World in Guangzhou – Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace: Gordon Mathews
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a placeContinue Reading
Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration
Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration Book launch Friday 10 March 2017 Background Access to safe and legal migrationContinue Reading
The Han saviour behind the blackface: gendered and racialised media representations in Africa-China popular geopolitics
Conference presentation #IACSS21: Abbreviated version of an upcoming paper on the popular geopolitics of Africa-China gendered and racialised encounters
Africans in China 