Abstract
(Foreign Direct Investments) FDIs plays great role on promoting economic development of both the host country and place of their origin. Tanzania’s recent move of industrialization witnesses a huge influx of Chinese foreign direct investments in special economic zones and industrial parks. With the increase of FDIs and industrial parks, cheap migrant laborers are of great importance to the development of these factories in industrial zones.Spending half a year in different Chinese enterprises and local owned companies in Tanzania, a field study was conducted on Chinese -Tanzanian labor racialization at Mkuranga industrial park in Tanzania. The analysis in this article is based on labor racialization at Mkuranga industrial zone where life course migration of workers, interactions in the workplace and Chinese workers interaction with surrounding environment.The study found that, while foreign enterprises improved livelihoods of migrant and local society at the park, there is racialization from both sides and is being fueled by total cultural misunderstanding. Keywords: migrant workers, Chinese enterprises, racialization, Tanzania. DOI: 10.7176/DCS/10-11-08 Publication date: November 30 th 2020
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