Exile and contract: journeys of the mozambicans to S. Tomé and Príncipe (1940 to 1960)
| Autor: | Nascimento, Augusto |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Popis: | This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P, in the scope of the projects UIDB/04311/2020 and UIDP/04311/2020. / Este trabalho é financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito dos projetos UIDB/04311/2020 e UIDP/04311/2020. Outros financiadores: Programa Praxis XXI, Serviço de Bolsas de Estudos da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Exile and Contract: Journeys of the Mozambicans to S. Tomé and Príncipe (1940 to 1960), based mainly on documentation from the Historical Archive of Maputo, deals with the migration of Mozambicans to São Tomé and Príncipe, especially between 1947 and 1961. The more or less coercive nature of this migration varied due to the correlation of forces between the political instances, in Portugal and Mozambique, and the plantation owners, who demanded the use of the hired labour force to maintain labour relations on the plantations. On a chronological level, a change occurred in the mid-1950s. Until then, among the migrants there were some individuals in no way labelled as slaves or undesirables, anyway there were also other individuals which were labelled as such to fill the labour contingent. In the second half of the 1950’s, when the banishment of undesirables almost ended, there was a tendency towards a greater social and cultural homogeneity of migrants, most of whom were recruited in Northern Mozambique, certainly less as a result of individual will than of agreements on the destiny of the subjects. Among the social implications of migration, it should be highlighted the re-establishment of family ties, which induced the migration of Cape Verdeans women, with their Mozambicans roça's partners, to Mozambique. The political consequences of migration from Mozambique to the islands were less obvious: as centripetal universes, the roças made it difficult to affirm the conscience of the servants, whose political aversion to the colonists, when it existed, was often based on their religious conscience. It is not wrong to say that the individuals, recruited or hired, in the south and north of the colony, returned from São Tomé and Príncipe with an increased feeling of being Mozambicans. |
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