Africans in post-COVID-19 pandemic China: is there a future for China's 'new minority'?. Issue 4 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Castillo, Roberto; Amoah, Padmore Adusei
• Is Part Of: Asian ethnicity. Volume 21:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 560
• Page End: 565
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- China -- Africans -- migration -- social identity -- wellbeing -- surveillance; Ethnicity -- Asia -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- Asia -- Periodicals; Asia -- Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; 306.0895
• DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2020.1773760
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1463-1369

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, we reflect on critical questions relating to the future of African migration to China in the post-COVID-19 world at the backdrop of the mistreatment many Africans received as part of the pandemic control in China. These questions include: Is this the end of African migration to China as we know it? Will COVID-19 fundamentally change how we think about migration, mobility and wellbeing in the People's Republic of China (PRC)? What will be the effect of the post-COVID-19 regime on the social identity and wellbeing of the African diaspora in Guangzhou and other Chinese cities?