Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola Migrants or Masters? /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Åkesson, Lisa (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship,
• Θέματα: Emigration and immigration.; Industrial sociology.; Ethnography.; Africa-Politics and government.; Imperialism.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Migration.; Sociology of Work.; African Politics.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

 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. . 

 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.