Fikes Kesha Fikes

Managing African Portugal (eBook, PDF)

The Citizen-Migrant Distinction

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Produktbeschreibung

In Managing African Portugal, Kesha Fikes shows how the final integration of Portugal's economic institutions into the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s changed everyday encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations in ideologies of difference enacted in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. Fikes evaluates shifts in racial discourse and considers how both antiracism and racism instantiate proof of Portugal's European "e;conversion"e; and modernization.The ethnographic focus is a former undocumented fish market that at one time employed both Portuguese and Cape Verdean women. Both groups eventually sought work in low-wage professions as maids, nannies, and restaurant-kitchen help. The visibility of poor Portuguese women as domestics was thought to undermine the appearance of Portuguese modernity; by contrast, the association of poor African women with domestic work confirmed it. Fikes argues that we can better understand how Portugal interpreted its economic absorption into the EU by attending to the different directions in which working-poor Portuguese and Cape Verdean women were routed in the mid-1990s and by observing the character of the new work relationships that developed among them. In Managing African Portugal, Fikes pushes for a study of migrant phenomena that considers not only how the enactment of citizenship by the citizen manages the migrant, but also how citizens are simultaneously governed through their uptake and assumption of new EU citizen roles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822390985
• Artikelnr.: 54934703

Autorenporträt

Kesha Fikes is an anthropologist and independent scholar. She has taught in the departments of anthropology at the University of Florida and the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Miscegenation Interrupted 31
2. Ri(gh)tes of Intimacy at Docapesca 65
3. Black Magik Women: Policing Appearances 93
4. Being in Place: Domesticating the Citizen-Migrant Distinction 123
Afterword: After Integration 163
Notes 165
References 171
Index 183