North to South Migration: Portuguese Labour Migration to Angola

In: Bayreuther Studien zu Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika v.10

Abstract

Cover -- Chapter 1: Introduction and research aims -- 1.1 Why study Portuguese migration to Angola? -- 1.2 Research aims and questions -- 1.3 Setting the scene: facts and figures on Portuguese migration to Angola -- 1.4 Overview of the thesis -- Chapter 2: Migration dynamics in the global North and South: Portuguese migration to Angola -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Challenging the Northern bias in migration theory -- 2.2.1 The reduction of North-South migration to the historical events of colonialism -- 2.2.2 The overemphasis on South-North migration -- 2.2.3 The neglect of South-South migration dynamics -- 2.3 South to North migration dynamics: Eurocentrism and Orientalism -- 2.4 Perspectives from the South: towards a critical understanding of asymmetries -- 2.5 North to South migration: 'expats' and others -- 2.6 Portuguese migration to Angola and the Lusophone migration system -- 2.7 Perspectives and myths: postcolonialism, coloniality, the work ethic and social capital -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Research methods -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The challenge of researching North-South migration -- 3.3 Discourses framing Portuguese migration to Angola -- 3.4 Arriving in the field -- 3.5 Research techniques: semi-structured interviews and participant observation -- 3.6 Characteristics of the participants -- 3.7 Positionality and reflexivity -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The legacy of the myth of Lusotropicalism in Angola -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The roots of Lusotropicalism -- 4.3 The Portuguese colonial adoption of Lusotropicalism -- 4.4 Lusotropicalism as a colonial propaganda ideology -- 4.5 Lusotropicalism and colonial reforms -- 4.6 Myths of the non-racist Portuguese colonial system -- 4.7 Lusotropicalism in postcolonial Portugal and black migration -- 4.8 Postcolonial Lusotropicalism and the linguistic legacy in Angola.