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Date/Time
Date(s) - 16/12/15
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Grote Gracht 80-82, Spiegelzaal (Soiron Building) Maastricht
Categories
Migrants, the state, and petty trade: People, goods, and money on the move between West Africa and China
by Heidi Østbro Haugen (University of Norway)
Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development (GTD) Colloquium organized in association with Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE)
Abstract: This lecture will address how African migrants and itinerant traders and their Chinese partners create business opportunities in the interstices between formal and informal economies.
Speaker: Heidi Østbø Haugen is Postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography of the University of Norway.