Vivian Lu | Circular Migrations and Transforming Home

Vivian Lu is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on capitalism and diasporic mobilizations amongst the Global South. Her first book focuses on the extensive commercial circulations of Nigerian businessmen amongst contemporary trade sites across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. 

Further Readings:

Adebayo, Kudus Oluwatoyin. "‘I don’t want to have a separated home’: Reckoning family and return migration among married Nigerians in China." Migration Studies 8, no. 2 (2020): 250-270.

Castillo, Roberto. African Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move. Routledge, 2020.

Lu, Vivian Chenxue. "Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria." African Studies Review (2022): 1-25.

Zuluaga, Jonathan Echeverri. "Errance and Elsewheres among Africans waiting to restart their journeys in Dakar, Senegal." Cultural Anthropology 30, no. 4 (2015): 589-610.