Pandemics and Management of "Dangerous Communities": Ebola, COVID-19, and Africans in China

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 specifi...

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Published in:The Professional geographer 2023-01, Vol.75 (1), p.164-174
Main Author: Adebayo, Kudus Oluwatoyin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa-China relations
African cultural groups
africanos en China
Africans in China
Archives & records
Black people
Blackness
Community
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data points
Ebola virus
Ebolavirus
Epidemics
Geography
Immigrants
Mitigation
negritud
othering
otredad
Outbreaks
Pandemics
Public health
Questions
race
Racial discrimination
Racial identity
raza
relaciones afro-chinas
Social media
Viral diseases
Viruses
中非关系
在华非洲人
外人
种族
黑人
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1080/00330124.2022.2048867