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| UNDERSTANDING THE FORMATION AND CHANGE OF AFRICAN ENCLAVE AT XIAOBEI, GUANGZHOU BASED ON TERRITORIALIZATION THEORY |
| HU Xun-xun1, ZHANG Yue2, CAI Chao-ming1, SUN Ao1, LIU Yun-gang1,2 |
1. School of Geography & the Center for Asian Geographical Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China |
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Abstract With the deepening of globalization, the cross-border flow of migrants has become increasingly frequent. The African enclave in Xiaobei, Guangzhou has attracted widespread attention at home and abroad due to its obvious ethnic characteristics. Some scholars believe that this African enclave will exist forever, just like Chinatowns around the globe. These studies lead to the thinking of this paper: Why does the African enclave in Xiaobei, Guangzhou rise and fall rapidly instead of " evergreen"? What forces are driving the evolution of this African enclave? Based on the territorialization theory of political geography, this paper analyzes the action mechanism of multiple subjects in the shaping and reconstruction of African enclave in the local context from the perspective of power space. The research shows that the formation, development and decline of the African enclave are actually the result of the joint action of the three forces of society, market and administration. The African enclave is a territory where Africans gain the right to use space in commercial space, residential space, and public space. It is a weak territorialization relying on the social and market territorialization. In different historical periods, with the change of the development context of Xiaobei, the power subject that dominates its social space has changed, and the material space and social space have been transformed under the interaction of territorialization-deterritorializ- ation-re-territorialization among power subjects, the African enclave rooted in the local society show an evolutionary path of formation, development and decline.
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Received: 07 May 2022
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Corresponding Authors:
10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.05.007
E-mail: ygliu@scnu.edu.cn
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