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Chinese Migrants in Africa Are Getting Hit by the Slowing Global Economy

Thousands of Chinese migrants who settled in Africa over the past decade or so now face mounting uncertainty as economic growth slows across the continent and back home in China. Dr. Yoon Jung Park, one of the world's leading experts on Chinese migration in Africa, joins Eric & Cobus -- in the podcast above -- to discuss what impact the slowing global economy will have on China's migrant population in Africa.
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A Chinese construction worker supervise the building of a road, Thursday, April 26, 2007 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. China said Thursday that a deadly attack in Ethiopia that killed 74 people, including nine Chinese, will not stop it from investing in Africa, but added it planned to boost security measures. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A Chinese construction worker supervise the building of a road, Thursday, April 26, 2007 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. China said Thursday that a deadly attack in Ethiopia that killed 74 people, including nine Chinese, will not stop it from investing in Africa, but added it planned to boost security measures. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Thousands of Chinese migrants who settled in Africa over the past decade or so now face mounting uncertainty as economic growth slows across the continent and back home in China. While there are no reliable estimates as to how many Chinese migrants there are in Africa, experts believe the population to be somewhere between 1 and 2 million people.

The Chinese expatriate and immigrant communities in Africa are extremely diverse, and for a certain slice of that community the new, grim economic realities pose real challenges. Many are either too poor or too financially invested in Africa to go anywhere else.

Dr. Yoon Jung Park is one of the world's leading experts on Chinese migration in Africa and an adjunct associate professor in the African studies department at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She joins Eric & Cobus -- in the podcast above -- to discuss what impact the slowing global economy will have on China's migrant population in Africa.

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