Research On The Daily Life Of African Students In Beijing

With the spread of globalization,the number of Chinese of African descent is increasing year by year:Compared with the traditional migrant population and overseas Chinese groups,domestic and international academic circles still have little research on African groups in China.With the improvement of the importance of this group at the national level and the continuous growth of the number of this group,the realization of the good urban integration of this group is the key to strengthening the innovative social management and the inevitable requirement to further promote the internationalization of Chinese cities.In order to facilitate the investigation,this paper only selected some African students in Beijing as the research object.For this group,the process of "interaction" with Chinese urban society and eventually "integration" is actually carried out in the interaction and communication with Chinese people.This study starts from the communication and "collision" between African students and Chinese people.From the perspective of "daily life practice",this paper studied and explained the daily life practice of 11 international students from different African countries in several universities and colleges in Beijing using the brovey case study method under the qualitative research paradigm.In order to further explore the social and cultural mechanism and individual action logic of the African integration difficulty" in China.It is found that the daily life of African students in China follows two paths:passive practice under cultural shock and active practice after cultural shock.After arriving in Chinese cities,African students experience "shock" in the aspects of clothing,food,housing,transportation and social communication,which constitutes the social and cultural mechanism of "integration difficulty".The process of finding "my group",constructing "home" and so on,which makes it "fit in"through a series of action actions through scheduling initiative,has to be reproduced at the level of individual action logic.