Author: Malwina Bakalarska.

Africans in Asia. China and Malaysia as the new directions for Nigerian migration is a research project established for three-year duration (2013-2016). The research is sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland and affiliated with the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. This research project focuses on three countries: Nigeria, Malaysia and China in the context of the South-South cooperation and it aims to explore and evaluate the reasons, processes and results of short-term educational migration of Nigerian students into these two Asian countries on two levels; the individual and institutional level. The cultural and sociological aspects exposed to in this research will complement the political and economic background of the current Asian-African relations.