Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola : Migrants or Masters? / / by Lisa Åkesson

• Autore: Åkesson Lisa
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (154 pages)
• Disciplina: 325.469
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration; Industrial sociology; Ethnography; Africa—Politics and government; Imperialism; Social structure; Equality; Migration; Sociology of Work; African Politics; Imperialism and Colonialism; Social Structure, Social Inequality
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. .
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola
• ISBN: 3-319-73052-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300600403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, . 2662-2602