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Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola


Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola

Migrants or Masters?
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

von: Lisa Åkesson

53,49 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 19.02.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319730523
Sprache: englisch

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Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context. In doing so, it explores everyday encounters at work between the Portuguese migrants and their Angolan “hosts”, and it analyses how the Luso-African postcolonial heritage interplays with the recent Portuguese-Angolan migration in the (re-)construction of power relations and identities. Based on ethnographic interviews, the book describes the Angolan-Portuguese relationship as characterized not only by hierarchies of power, but also by ambivalence and hybridity. This research demonstrates that the identities of the ex-colonized Angolan and the Portuguese ex-colonizer are shaped by a history of unequal and violent power relations. Further, it reveals how this history has produced a sense of intimacy between the two, and the often fraught nature of this relationship. Combining a strong connection to the field of migration studies with a postcolonial perspective, this original work will appeal to students and scholars of migration, postcolonial studies, the sociology of work and African Studies. 
Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the scene.- Chapter 2: Postcolonial encounters in a lusotropical world.- Chapter 3: Mobile subjects.- Chapter 4: Changing relations of power and the party-state.- Chapter 5: The power in and of labour relations.- Chapter 6: Identities at work.- Chapter 7: Conclusions: Continuity, rupture and hybridity.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
Lisa Åkesson is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, the University of Gothenburg, and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.&nbsp;
Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context. In doing so, it explores everyday encounters at work between the Portuguese migrants and their Angolan “hosts”, and it analyses how the Luso-African postcolonial heritage interplays with the recent Portuguese-Angolan migration in the (re-)construction of power relations and identities. Based on ethnographic interviews, the book describes the Angolan-Portuguese relationship as characterized not only by hierarchies of power, but also by ambivalence and hybridity. This research demonstrates that the identities of the ex-colonized Angolan and the Portuguese ex-colonizer are shaped by a history of unequal and violent power relations. Further, it reveals how this history has produced a sense of intimacy between the two, and the often fraught nature of this relationship. Combining a strong connection to the field of migration studies with a postcolonial perspective, this original work will appeal to students and scholars of migration, postcolonial studies,&nbsp;the sociology of work and African Studies.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
Represents a significant contribution to current migration debates Carves a new path in the debate on North-South migration Sheds light on postcolonial power relations in Angola

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