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The Rise and Fall of ‘Africatown’: A Brief History of the African Migrant Community in Guangzhou, China

The year is 2009. The location is Tangqi wholesale mall in Guangzhou, China. Little shops, some the size of storage units, line the mall’s breezeways selling cheap goods of dubious quality. The sound of tape ripping and snapping fills the air as the wholesalers begin to prepare their clothes for shipment back to their origin …

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Who cares for stateless Rohingyas?

The massive numbers of refugees who fled to Bangladesh in 2017 joined hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas who had fled Myanmar in the past. Kutupalong, the largest refugee settlement in the world, according to UNHCR, is home to more than 600,000 refugees alone.   The Rohingya crisis — the most terrible humanitarian disaster in South …

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