re: proposed African Migration Conference called off

[Eric Ansah]

Dear all, here is just a note to inform us that the proposed conference on African migration to South-(east) Asia for Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) this September is called off due to a lack of institutional support. The topic is still highly relevant; so if anyone is willing and has the means to organise a gathering in whatever form, elsewhere, that would be great.

 

Cheers,

Eric

 

Dr. Eric S. Ansah

Senior Research Fellow

Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA)

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

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Malaysia

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[Philippe Noubel]

Too bad - let us know if including China woudl help - we here are doing to ChinaAfrica and AfricaChina work both ways 

Best

Filip Noubel

ICCD Country Director 

Beijing China 

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[Eric Ansah]

Yes China provides a model (if one can say that) of growing African migration to East Asia from which we may compare Southeast Asia patterns and state responses against the older phenomenon of Eurocentric African migration. Actually the conference intends to do that. I have personally met African migrants here in Malaysia who returned from China and speak mandarin! So China is up for grabs and all ideas are welcome. If you want to bring-in your experiences with new digital media and cyberspace, we could for instance, include as a theme how the internet enables this new South-South migration networks of Africans to China and onward to other destinations in Asia. Thanks. Eric Ansah