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Pandemics and Management of "Dangerous Communities”: Ebola, COVID-19, and Africans in China
Professional Geographer ; 75(1):164-174, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2238334
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How do we unpack and make sense of anti-African/Black sentiments in the pandemic control and mitigation practices in China? This article responds to the question by drawing a parallel between the experiences of Africans in China during the Ebola virus disease and COVID-19 outbreaks. Focusing specifically on Nigerians as a subsection of the African community in Guangzhou City, China, it explores how the COVID-19-inspired discrimination against Africans reflects much of the experiences of Africans in China during the Ebola crisis of 2014. The article combines sixteen "Ebola experience” data points, obtained from Nigerians in Guangzhou in 2017, with four COVID-19 experience virtual interviews, media reports, and social media archive and netnographic analysis covering April to June 2020. The experiences of Africans in Guangzhou in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak reflect a patterned response to Africans and Blackness in the context of pandemic in China. The article contributes to the literature by examining the question of racial discrimination and the construction of African immigrant community in China as dangerous within the new geography of Afro-mobilities in East Asia. © 2022 by American Association of Geographers.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Scopus Language: English Journal: Professional Geographer Year: 2023 Document Type: Article