Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola Migrants or Masters? /

• Main Author: Åkesson, Lisa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship,
• Subjects: 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 encounter...

Table of Contents:

• 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.