Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola
Migrants or Masters?
Authors: Åkesson, Lisa
- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: Setting the Scene
Pages 1-32
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Postcolonial Encounters in a Lusotropical World
Pages 33-56
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Mobile Subjects
Pages 57-76
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Changing Relations of Power and the Party-State
Pages 77-94
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The Power in and of Labour Relations
Pages 95-112
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola
- Book Subtitle
- Migrants or Masters?
- Authors
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- Lisa Åkesson
- Series Title
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-73052-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-73052-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-73051-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10306-4
- Series ISSN
- 2662-2602
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 154
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