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Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Lisa Åkesson

    1. School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Setting the Scene

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 1-32

  3. Postcolonial Encounters in a Lusotropical World

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 33-56

  4. Mobile Subjects

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 57-76

  5. Changing Relations of Power and the Party-State

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 77-94

  6. The Power in and of Labour Relations

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 95-112

  7. Identities at Work

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 113-132

  8. Conclusions: Continuity, Rupture and Hybridity

    • Lisa Åkesson
    Pages 133-139

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 141-154
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Lisa Åkesson

About the author

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. 

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