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Sai fora: youth, disconnectedness and aspiration to mobility in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau)
| Resumo: | In this article I portray the marginality, exclusion and social immobility of young people living in the small port of Bubaque in the Bijagó Islands. Reluctant to be involved in the village economy, but excluded from the ports market economy, aware of the weakness of the national economy, migration to Europe appears to them to be the only viable means of social promotion. Income and education are not the sole motivations of their aspirations to mobility, however. The young mens fantasies of migration to Europe are based on a developmentalist narrative framework that creates a cartography of centres and peripheries. Physical mobility towards the north is therefore also envisaged as a chance to obtain - or at least to claim - citizenship in modernity. |
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| Autores principais: | Bordonaro,Lorenzo |
| Assunto: | youth Guinea-Bissau Bijagó Islands involuntary immobility migration marginality |
| Ano: | 2009 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | SciELO Portugal |
| Resumo: | In this article I portray the marginality, exclusion and social immobility of young people living in the small port of Bubaque in the Bijagó Islands. Reluctant to be involved in the village economy, but excluded from the ports market economy, aware of the weakness of the national economy, migration to Europe appears to them to be the only viable means of social promotion. Income and education are not the sole motivations of their aspirations to mobility, however. The young mens fantasies of migration to Europe are based on a developmentalist narrative framework that creates a cartography of centres and peripheries. Physical mobility towards the north is therefore also envisaged as a chance to obtain - or at least to claim - citizenship in modernity. |
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