Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319730516)

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.

Author: Lisa ﾅkesson
ISBN-10: 3319730517
ISBN-13: 9783319730516
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2018
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d