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In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased. And while most of the scholarly attention to the phenomenon has focused on China, often with an emphasis on asymmetric power relations in both politics and economics, this book takes a much broader view, looking at various small and medium-sized actors in Asia and Africa in a wide range of fields. It will be essential for scholars working on Asian-African studies and will also offer insights for policymakers working in this fast-changing field.
List of contents
Introduction Arndt Graf and Azirah Hashim, Part I: Outbound-Inbound: Observations from West Africa In Constant Search for Money to Survive: African Youths in Malaysia Ute Röschenthaler Local Stakeholders' Perceptions on Asian Preponderance within the Cameroon's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Diderot Nguepjouo and Jürgen Runge Part II: The 'Chinese' Factor Does New Sino-African Cooperation Create New Dependencies? The Case of Higher Education Falk Hartig Beyond the State in Sino-African Relations? Reflections on Civil Society Interactions Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel A Case Study on the Vietnamese-Chinese Migration Industry in Angola André Gröger and Jürgen Klump Part III: Africa's Other Asian Options South-South Cooperation Strategies in Indonesia: Domestic and International Drivers Susan Engel South Korean Civic Actors in Rwanda: Promoting Rural Development and an Emerging Civil Society in Contexts Controlled by the State Wiebe Nauta and Tae-Joo-Lee Enhancing Asia-Africa Relations through Futher Discourse on Mobility of Africans to Peripheral Asian Countries: Outcome of Exploratory Studies from the Philippines Satwinder S. Rehal.
About the author
Prof. Dr. Arndt Graf is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Since 2013 he is also Speaker (with Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler) of the research project AFRASO (Africa's Asian Options) funded by the German Ministry of Higher Education and Research. AFRASO involves 40 colleagues from a broad variety of disciplines.| Azirah Hashim is professor of English linguistics and Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya.
