Chinese Migrants and Africa's Development

Giles Mohan is professor of international development at the Open University. He has published extensively in geographical, development studies and African studies journals and has acted as a consultant for a range of BBC documentaries on issues of international development.Ben Lampert is a lecturer in the Development Policy and Practice Group at the Open University.May Tan-Mullins is a human geographer at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, having previously worked at the National University of Singapore and Durham University.Daphne Chang is a staff tutor and a faculty associate of the Development Policy and Practice Group at the Open University.

• 1. The Chinese in Africa: migration and development beyond the west2. China's opening up: internationalization, liberalization and emigration3. Africa as opportunity: Chinese interests, motives and aspirations4. Chinese socio-economic life in Africa: networks and realities5. Constructing the other: narratives of tension and conflict in Sino-African encounters6. Building bridges: towards conviviality, cooperation and mutual benefit in Sino-African encounters7. Conclusion: everyday Sino-African encounters and the potential for African development

Chinese Migrants and African Development provides a thoughtful, richly informed and theoretically drawn assessment of a complex relationship in flux. The authors do a remarkable job of unpacking the array of actors and differing contexts that shape the engagement between Chinese migrants and African communities. An important contribution to the burgeoning field.