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Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters?

Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters?

Åkesson, Lisa

Paperback

Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3030103064
ISBN13: 9783030103064
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 12 2019
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.

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