Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Short CV

Visiting professorship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Direction de la recherche: Bureau appui à la recherche et à l'innovation (BARI), Dakar
03/2013 - 05/2013: Visiting professorship at the Université Tours, Laboratoire CITERES, France
Since 2011: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)"
2008 - 2010: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Überlebensstrategien von Migranten in Transitstädten in Mali und Mauretanien"
2005-2008: Cooperation with the CITERES in Tours (CNRS) in France: The Question of Authority in contemporary social and religious Recompositions in North and West Africa
2002 - 2006: Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin (http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Marfaing/Marfaing.htm)
1999 - 2002: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: Influence of Senegalese Migrants, especially from the Murids, in Germany on the Murids Brotherhood, their Investment and their Relation to State
1995 - 1997: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: research project "Senegalese Merchants between formal and informal sector: 1930-1996" (with 15 Months Fieldwork in Senegal)
1994: Exhibition on Handcraft and artisans in Benin (Cové-Bohicon)
1991 - 1993: Research Fellow, Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg: Making an African Bibliography of Colonial Books - published until 1945 - from the Libraries and Institutes of Hamburg
1986 - 1990: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg: Commerce and Merchant in West Africa 1830 - 1930 (Senegambia and Ivory Coast)
1985 - 1990: Teacher in History – French Grammar School in Hamburg
Education: Masters in History, University of Hamburg ("Communist Party and Communist Parliamentary Party in France during the popular front, 1936-1938"); DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) University of Nice, France ("The Communist Party Colonial Policy in North Africa), Doctorate in History, University of Hamburg ("Change and Evolution of Commerce in Senegal - 1820-1930")

Current Research

Migration
Mobility

Countries and Regions

West Africa

Research Programmes

Globalization and Development

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2019

Dakar ville moderne: la médiation des entrepreneurs sénégalais en Chine

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines | 2019

Les élections présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal ou la lente ascension des nouvelles générations

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Dirk Kohnert

Former GIGA Team member

Edited Volume | Brill Academic Publishers | 10/2018

Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters

Dr. Karsten Giese

Senior Research Fellow / Editor GIGA Focus Asien

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Chapter in Edited Volume | 10/2018

Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change

Dr. Karsten Giese

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Dr. Alena Thiel

Chapter in Edited Volume | 10/2018

“Made in China” and the African “China Dream”: An Alternative to the West?

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Deutsche Welle | Interview | 29/02/2012

Chinese traders are shaking things up in the markets of Africa

Conference | 20/01/2013 - 24/01/2013

South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China

South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China, Dakar Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Point Sud - Centre for Research on Local Knowledge Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist)

South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China

Dr. Karsten Giese

Senior Research Fellow / Editor GIGA Focus Asien

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Conference | 30/05/2012 - 02/06/2012

Tagung der Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland

Tagung der Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland, Universität Köln, Köln Organisers: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist)

Neue Akteure, neue Ordnung? Interaktion chinesischer Migranten, afrikanischer Unternehmer und lokaler Bevölkerung im urbanen Afrika

Dr. Karsten Giese

Senior Research Fellow / Editor GIGA Focus Asien

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

GIGA Forum | 22/02/2012

China in Afrika

China in Afrika, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist), Dr. Alena Thiel (Panelist), Dr. Margot Schüller (Moderator)

China in Africa

Dr. Karsten Giese

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Dr. Alena Thiel

Dr. Margot Schüller

Short CV

Visiting professorship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Direction de la recherche: Bureau appui à la recherche et à l'innovation (BARI), Dakar
03/2013 - 05/2013: Visiting professorship at the Université Tours, Laboratoire CITERES, France
Since 2011: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)"
2008 - 2010: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Überlebensstrategien von Migranten in Transitstädten in Mali und Mauretanien"
2005-2008: Cooperation with the CITERES in Tours (CNRS) in France: The Question of Authority in contemporary social and religious Recompositions in North and West Africa
2002 - 2006: Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin (http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Marfaing/Marfaing.htm)
1999 - 2002: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: Influence of Senegalese Migrants, especially from the Murids, in Germany on the Murids Brotherhood, their Investment and their Relation to State
1995 - 1997: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: research project "Senegalese Merchants between formal and informal sector: 1930-1996" (with 15 Months Fieldwork in Senegal)
1994: Exhibition on Handcraft and artisans in Benin (Cové-Bohicon)
1991 - 1993: Research Fellow, Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg: Making an African Bibliography of Colonial Books - published until 1945 - from the Libraries and Institutes of Hamburg
1986 - 1990: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg: Commerce and Merchant in West Africa 1830 - 1930 (Senegambia and Ivory Coast)
1985 - 1990: Teacher in History – French Grammar School in Hamburg
Education: Masters in History, University of Hamburg ("Communist Party and Communist Parliamentary Party in France during the popular front, 1936-1938"); DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) University of Nice, France ("The Communist Party Colonial Policy in North Africa), Doctorate in History, University of Hamburg ("Change and Evolution of Commerce in Senegal - 1820-1930")