%0 Journal Article
%T Performing ¡°China in Africa¡± for the West: Chinese migrant discourses in Angola
%A Cheryl Mei-ting Schmitz
%J Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0117196818760404
%X As China¡¯s largest trading partner in Africa and host to an estimated 250,000 Chinese migrants, Angola is one of the most significant sites for analyzing China¨CAfrica relations today. This paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork in both Angola and China conducted in 2013¨C2014, analyzes conversations about Chinese globalization in Africa to show how Chinese speakers spoke performatively about a politically charged phenomenon in which they found themselves implicated. Encounters between Chinese expatriates, a European journalist and an American anthropologist reveal the assumptions underlying which questions get posed about Chinese interventions in Africa and how Chineseness is articulated in response
%K Chinese migration
%K Angola
%K performativity
%K China¨CAfrica relations
%K Western journalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0117196818760404