Identidades sem chão--Imigrantes afro-moçambicanos: Narrativas de vida e de identidade, e percepções de um Portugal pós-colonial. (Portuguese)

This article aims to re-interpret and re-think the effects of Portuguese colonialism, by analysing the voice of those who were categorised by the colonial regime as 'assimilated' individuals, and who decided--after Mozambican independence (1975)--to pursue their lives in Portugal, their former metropolis. The study of African Mozambican immigrants' narratives of life and identity trajectories will be carried out in order to gain insight into: to what extent Boaventura Sousa Santos's Portuguese postcolonialism theory (2001) helps us to understand these immigrants' narratives of life and identity; and what kind of affinity Portugal has established with its ex-assimilated subjects as a country of postcolonial immigration. Finally, I analyse these individuals' perceptions of a postcolonial Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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