{"id":2725,"date":"2020-07-26T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.jomec.co.uk\/life360\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2020-07-26T02:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:26:55","slug":"a-grassroots-rescue-plan-chinese-volunteers-support-mistreated-africans-in-guangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/a-grassroots-rescue-plan-chinese-volunteers-support-mistreated-africans-in-guangzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"A grassroots rescue plan: Chinese volunteers support mistreated Africans in Guangzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While the Chinese authority confronted Africans, miscommunication often took place.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Xiaotian was informed by a Chinese-African couple that the police affixed a seal on their door on April 4. They said they were tested four times within one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While walking on the street, Xiaotian could see some homeless Africans roaming under the highway overpass. He approached them to ask what happened to them. Some said they were evicted by their landlords, while some said they had been rough sleepers for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the same time, anthropology researcher Laoyao knew from her African informants that they were thrown out of the apartment and had nowhere to go. She also saw videos going viral on social media that local Chinese were discriminating against their African neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those scenes took place in Guangzhou, a commercial hub in southern China. The city hosts the largest African community in Asia, whose population is estimated at 15,000 to 25,000<\/a>. As the capital of the Pearl Delta Region, also known as the \u201cworld factory\u201d, Guangzhou also attracts many African traders to bring Chinese goods back to their home countries to sell despite many of them being knock-off ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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