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dc.contributor.authorMarfaing, Laurenceen
dc.contributor.authorThiel, Alenaen
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-11-
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-29T14:02:59Z-
dc.date.available2011-11-29T14:02:59Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/52403-
dc.description.abstractSince the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of greener pastures. This paper scrutinizes the empirical foundations of the increasingly hostile discourses of African traders regarding the alleged encroachment of the West African urban market space by Chinese petty entrepreneurs. Based on indepth ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, we aim to demystify this common allegation by exploring the diversity of influx channels through which Chinese commodities, said to create unfair and existential competition, come to the African continent. Our analysis of trade trajectories shows that Chinese products were coming to Africa long before the arrival of independent Chinese migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Statistical evidence further supports our stance that Chinese entrepreneurs still represent a minority group in the import of cheap China goods into Ghana and Senegal.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aGerman Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) |cHamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aGIGA Working Papers |x180en
dc.subject.jelD43en
dc.subject.jelD85en
dc.subject.jelF14en
dc.subject.jelF22en
dc.subject.jelL14en
dc.subject.jelO24en
dc.subject.jelP45en
dc.subject.jelZ1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordinternational tradeen
dc.subject.keywordconsumer goodsen
dc.subject.keywordimperfect competitionen
dc.subject.keywordmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordsocial networksen
dc.subject.keywordChinaen
dc.subject.keywordAfricaen
dc.subject.stwKonsumguten
dc.subject.stwAußenhandelen
dc.subject.stwChinaen
dc.subject.stwImporten
dc.subject.stwUnternehmeren
dc.subject.stwChinesenen
dc.subject.stwGhanaen
dc.subject.stwSenegalen
dc.titleChinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn671984896en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:gigawp:180-

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