Lisa Åkesson

Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola

Migrants or Masters?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 oftenfraught 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.

Produktdetails

• Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-73051-6
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9783319730516
• ISBN-10: 3319730517
• Artikelnr.: 50012203

Autorenporträt

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. 

Inhaltsangabe

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.