Cape Verde around the world

Cape Verde around the world

The main goal of this project is the analysis of informal activities and movements of people of capeverdean origins. They are social phenomenon organized in networks producing economic e social changing all over the place they contact to. The observation and the analysis of these networks in Portugal (Great Lisbon), Italy (Rome) and USA (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) show that they are structured mostly on kinship, on nacional identity the so called "caboverdianidade" e on ethnicity. Furthermore it is the context that determine the supremacy of one or the other identity and the articulations between all of them in explaining the social facts. The field work revelled the importance to establish a theoretical proximity with the sociology of migrations and the studies on transnacionalism. This concept is understood as "the movement of people, goods, information, ideas and resources that structure the real actual world (cf. Keohane e Nye 1971:3). Transnacionalism is economically  and socially conceptually related with the macro-analysis of financial transnational movements of the capitalistic globalization.  (Sklair 1995, Castells 1996, Dicken 2001, Yeung 2000). But it is not all the story. The capeverdean diaspora show how transnacionalism may be structured economic and social phenomenon that escape to the control of the State. The project Cape Verde around the world is about these phenomenon...

Estatuto: 
Proponent entity
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Keywords: 
networks
social capital
migration
transanationalism

The main goal of this project is the analysis of informal activities and movements of people of capeverdean origins. They are social phenomenon organized in networks producing economic e social changing all over the place they contact to. The observation and the analysis of these networks in Portugal (Great Lisbon), Italy (Rome) and USA (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) show that they are structured mostly on kinship, on nacional identity the so called "caboverdianidade" e on ethnicity. Furthermore it is the context that determine the supremacy of one or the other identity and the articulations between all of them in explaining the social facts. The field work revelled the importance to establish a theoretical proximity with the sociology of migrations and the studies on transnacionalism. This concept is understood as "the movement of people, goods, information, ideas and resources that structure the real actual world (cf. Keohane e Nye 1971:3). Transnacionalism is economically  and socially conceptually related with the macro-analysis of financial transnational movements of the capitalistic globalization.  (Sklair 1995, Castells 1996, Dicken 2001, Yeung 2000). But it is not all the story. The capeverdean diaspora show how transnacionalism may be structured economic and social phenomenon that escape to the control of the State. The project Cape Verde around the world is about these phenomenon...

Objectivos: 
The role of the Cape Verdean diaspora falls within the scope of transnationalism carried out by non-institutional actors and organised in family networks and dispersed communities (cf. Portes 2001: 243-260). The multiculturalism accompanying this current migratory movement is a longstanding phenomenon that falls within the movement of people and goods in a globalised world. This irreversible trend has to be studied as a transitory phenomenon leading towards a cosmopolitan society that guarantees full citizenship to all inhabitants whatever the nationality in order to render obsolete categories of analysis such as "immigrant". Should this not happen, the risk is run of rhetorical manipulation of this phenomenon, as indeed happened in the later stages of the Portuguese colonial era (cf. Vale de Almeida 2004:89). The importance of highlighting the trans-territoriality of this phenomenon should begin by abandoning conceptual categories defined by geographical or identity criteria or indeed by academic field, which no longer bear analytical relevance in the modern world.
State of the art: 
Se, por um lado, o conceito do g&eacute;nero (assim como os de desenvolvimento, etnia, classe...) &eacute; um conceito transversal que se situa no espa&ccedil;o de intersec&ccedil;&atilde;o entre o cient&iacute;fico e o pol&iacute;tico (cf. Coquery Vidrovitch 1997), por outro lado, a sua abordagem permite analisar as estruturas pol&iacute;ticas, psicol&oacute;gicas, econ&oacute;micas e socioculturais que constituem a complexidade social (Grassi 2003: 72) como &eacute; proposto nesta colect&acirc;nea sobre as migra&ccedil;&otilde;es cabo-verdianas nos seus diversos contextos. <br />Os estudos sobre migra&ccedil;&otilde;es tamb&eacute;m reflectem a evolu&ccedil;&atilde;o hist&oacute;rica do conceito do g&eacute;nero ligado ao desenvolvimento e, na teoria cl&aacute;ssica das migra&ccedil;&otilde;es, o mesmo ponto de partida das abordagens, que se traduz na concep&ccedil;&atilde;o das mulheres como acompanhantes e dependentes dos homens e n&atilde;o como sujeitos activos. Apesar da compreens&atilde;o emp&iacute;rica da especificidade da migra&ccedil;&atilde;o feminina por quest&otilde;es de trabalho, na maioria das vezes, do ponto de vista conceptual permanece a liga&ccedil;&atilde;o da mulher como sujeito que segue os comportamentos do homem (Carlings 2005:4). &Eacute; durante a d&eacute;cada de 1976-1985 que surgem os primeiros estudos sobre a mulher migrante como sujeito vis&iacute;vel aut&oacute;nomo do homem (Morokvasic 1983) e sobre os fluxos migrat&oacute;rios de mulheres (Kofman 1999; Mahler 1999), embora se debrucem, especificamente, sobre estudos de caso, como um assunto maioritariamente de mulheres, aos quais n&atilde;o corresponde, ainda, uma conceptualiza&ccedil;&atilde;o da quest&atilde;o migrat&oacute;ria feminina (Carlings 2005:4). Neste sentido, &eacute; de se sublinhar a exist&ecirc;ncia de trabalhos como o de Leeds (1976) que tinha sido marginalizado por ser redutivo ao tratar exclusivamente de mulheres migrantes (Donato et al. 2006:10). Por outro lado, a primeira an&aacute;lise de g&eacute;nero consistente parece aparecer na literatura sobre migra&ccedil;&otilde;es em 1992 na introdu&ccedil;&atilde;o do livro ?Gender and migration? de Sylvia Chant e Sarah Radcliffe onde as autoras apontam que at&eacute; ent&atilde;o os estudos sobre mulheres e migra&ccedil;&otilde;es limitavam-se a estabelecer as diferen&ccedil;as num&eacute;ricas entre os sexos nos fluxos migrat&oacute;rios sem analisar substantivamente as diferen&ccedil;as em termos do g&eacute;nero. Outros autores, como Donato, Gabaccia, Holdaway, Malanansan, IV, Pessar (2006:14) concordam que a explos&atilde;o do interesse da quest&atilde;o do g&eacute;nero no interior das v&aacute;rias disciplinas e em contextos migrat&oacute;rios n&atilde;o pode ser atribu&iacute;do, nem &agrave; emerg&ecirc;ncia da corrente filos&oacute;fica p&oacute;s-moderna, nos finais da d&eacute;cada de 1980, nem sequer &agrave; emerg&ecirc;ncia das teorias p&oacute;s-coloniais. De acordo com os autores supracitados, foi no interior das suas pr&oacute;prias disciplinas que os cientistas sociais inseriram o g&eacute;nero como uma estrat&eacute;gia intelectual para superar a marginaliza&ccedil;&atilde;o da percep&ccedil;&atilde;o do trabalho da mulher na sociedade, tal como aparece nos trabalhos reunidos no n&uacute;mero especial do International Migration Review (IMR) de 1984, organizado por Mirjana Morokvasic. Mais recentemente, alguns autores sublinham que as fronteiras disciplinares n&atilde;o desaparecem em presen&ccedil;a de um espa&ccedil;o pluridisciplinar assim como n&atilde;o desaparecem as amplas varia&ccedil;&otilde;es na pr&aacute;tica e na aceita&ccedil;&atilde;o da an&aacute;lise transversal do g&eacute;nero que respeitam as suas especificidades epistemol&oacute;gicas, te&oacute;ricas e metodol&oacute;gicas (Donato et al. 2006: 15; Grassi 2003, 2004).
Coordenador ICS 
Start Date: 
01/05/2002
End Date: 
31/05/2008
Duração: 
72 meses
Closed