Hundreds, If Not Thousands, Of African Migrants Are Leaving China To Return Home

https://www.diasporaengager.com/miniRegister China is cracking down on African migrants even as many Chinese migrate to Africa. It was not that long ago that entire neighborhoods in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou were overflowing with African migrants. Although there are no precise figures, scholars estimated that more than 20,000 African immigrants ― and perhaps as many as 200,000 ― used to lived in Guangzhou, or as it is glibly known, “chocolate city.” Today, those same neighborhoods, once filled with halal food shops and other stores that catered to China’s African migrants, have been completely transformed, or as the Chinese government prefers to characterize it, “beautified.” Across Guangzhou, there are ever-mounting pressures on African migrants that are prompting more and more to just pack up and leave. Although Guangzhou’s urban planning agenda and tighter immigration controls may be partially responsible for the displacement of the African migrant community,
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