For the first time in sub-Saharan Africa’s postcolonial history, large numbers of citizens of a European former colonial power are migrating to an ex-colony. Portuguese migrants are attracted by Angola’s strong economic growth and are seeking to escape crisis in Portugal. This article focuses on everyday workplace relations between Angolans and Portuguese. In particular, it analyses how colonial power relations still resonate with both groups and whether their mutual imaginaries are moving beyond the colonial past. The article concludes that dependence on access to the labour market and the goodwill of Angola’s political and administrative class has undercut the ex-colonisers’ dominance. Yet colonial imaginaries are still in play, particula...
International audienceIn Portugal, until recently, the official memory of the Empire has overlooked ...
UID/CPO/04627/2013 IF/00477/2012This article aims to problematize the history of settler colonialism...
Reciprocal migration—which we defne as the mutual exchange of origin and destination by two diferent...
This article examines the new wave of Portuguese migration to Luanda in the first decade after Angol...
Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming ...
Outflows to the Portuguese-speaking countries, although not dominant, played an important role in th...
Outflows to the Portuguese-speaking countries, although not dominant, played an important role in th...
This article examines the new wave of Portuguese migration to Luanda in the first decade after Angol...
UID/ANT/04038/2013Since the end of the civil war in Angola, in 2002, migrations from Portugal to its...
International audienceSince the end of the civil war in Angola, in 2002, migrations from Portugal to...
This article traces the evolution of Portugal's relations with its former African colonies over the ...
Building on original research and dialoguing with scholarly works on Portugal, France and the United...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Angola was ostensibly “Portuguese.” But colonial settlement an...
UID/HIS/04209/2013The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before a...
This article examines the connected histories of (post)colonial migration and labour within the scop...
International audienceIn Portugal, until recently, the official memory of the Empire has overlooked ...
UID/CPO/04627/2013 IF/00477/2012This article aims to problematize the history of settler colonialism...
Reciprocal migration—which we defne as the mutual exchange of origin and destination by two diferent...
This article examines the new wave of Portuguese migration to Luanda in the first decade after Angol...
Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming ...
Outflows to the Portuguese-speaking countries, although not dominant, played an important role in th...
Outflows to the Portuguese-speaking countries, although not dominant, played an important role in th...
This article examines the new wave of Portuguese migration to Luanda in the first decade after Angol...
UID/ANT/04038/2013Since the end of the civil war in Angola, in 2002, migrations from Portugal to its...
International audienceSince the end of the civil war in Angola, in 2002, migrations from Portugal to...
This article traces the evolution of Portugal's relations with its former African colonies over the ...
Building on original research and dialoguing with scholarly works on Portugal, France and the United...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Angola was ostensibly “Portuguese.” But colonial settlement an...
UID/HIS/04209/2013The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before a...
This article examines the connected histories of (post)colonial migration and labour within the scop...
International audienceIn Portugal, until recently, the official memory of the Empire has overlooked ...
UID/CPO/04627/2013 IF/00477/2012This article aims to problematize the history of settler colonialism...
Reciprocal migration—which we defne as the mutual exchange of origin and destination by two diferent...