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The impact of Chinese business on market entry in Ghana and Senegal

In this article we analyse the currently observable changes in the norms and orders that regulate market entry in the Ghanaian and Senegalese trade sectors. We portray the three distinct ways in which - facilitated by the presence of independent Chinese migrants - previously excluded actors are now able to enter the market, without needing to rely on the networks that typically mediate access to start-up capital needs - such as selling space, marketing skills and, not least, capital stock. Creatively appropriating the new situation, these previously excluded actors have thus found in the Chinese presence a means of bypassing restrictive economic, social and religious networks. In-depth ethnographic fieldwork in 2011 and 2012 has revealed that while aspiring traders from Ghana and Senegal applaud the newly opened pathways to gainful economic activity, more established local merchants in the urban centres of both countries feel and express, in contrast, a discontent with the growing Chinese presence - as they see their role as gatekeepers of the market order being increasingly undermined.

The impact of Chinese business on market entry in Ghana and Senegal

Urheber*in: Marfaing, Laurence; Thiel, Alena

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ISSN
1750-0184
Extent
Seite(n): 646-669
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Africa : Journal of the International African Institute, 83(04)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Chinese
Unternehmer
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Ghana
Handel
Markterschließung
Netzwerk
Entwicklungsland
Interaktion
Senegal
Westafrika

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Marfaing, Laurence
Thiel, Alena
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Vereinigtes Königreich
(when)
2013

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-428728
Rights
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21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST

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  • Marfaing, Laurence
  • Thiel, Alena

Time of origin

  • 2013

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