Adaptation Strategies of African Male Immigrants in China: A Case Study of Nigerian-Chinese Marriage in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Author Name
Anas Elochukwu
Author Address
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Department of Political Science
Xiamen University, China
Keywords
African immigrants, Nigerians, Guangzhou.
Abstract
One of the popular assumptions about migration is that marriage into the host community facilitates the adaptation of (im)migrants. This adaptation strategy is now being widely used by African immigrants in China. This paper tested this assumption. It found that the number of immigrants who have successfully adapted because of their marriage into the host community was small. Nigerians were sampled because they constituted the largest percentage of intermarried Africans in Guangzhou, the place where Asia’s largest African immigrant population exists. The presenter sourced the paper from his fieldwork in that Chinese city during 2015 and 2016.
Conference
International Conference on "Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture"