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Title:Strategy and tactics: Chinese immigrants and diasporic spaces in Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors:Harrison, PhilipISNI
Moyo, Khangelani
Yang, Yan
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:38
Issue:4
Pages:899-925
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:immigrants
Chinese
diasporas
settlement patterns
urban society
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2012.741013
Abstract:Migration studies in South Africa have partially taken the spatial turn, giving some attention to questions of territoriality and spatial relationships. Recent literature has drawn on V.M. de Certeau's distinction between the strategies of the powerful and the tactics of the subordinate, revealing for example how migrants occupy hidden spaces to evade control and social hostility. Within the broad aegis of de Certeau's work, the authors engage the historical and contemporary spaces of the Chinese diaspora in Johannesburg. They describe a highly differentiated grouping of migrants that has deployed, and continues to deploy, varying tactics over time and across space. There are, for example, processes of clustering and processes of dispersal. There is also the use of visibility and cultural marking as a spatial tactic, as well as of invisibility and hidden spaces. The authors also reveal that the spatial practices of the Chinese migrants do not only relate to the strategies of the powerful but are also a response to the competition and threats posed by other subordinate individuals and groupings in society, including other Chinese migrants. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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