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...
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...




