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- Åkesson, Lisa, 1960-
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Cape Verdean notions of migrant remittances
- 2010
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Ingår i: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. - : OpenEdition. - 1645-3794 .- 2182-7400. ; :20, s. 139-159
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- Åkesson, Lisa, 1960, et al.
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Mobility, moralities and motherhood: Navigating the contingencies of Cape Verdean lives
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. - 1369-183X .- 1469-9451. ; 38:2, s. 237-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we discuss how transnational motherhood is managed and experienced in contexts of uncertainty and conflicting pressures. We propose a conceptual approach and apply it to a specific case: female migration from Cape Verde to Europe and North America. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors in Cape Verde and the diaspora over the past decade. We first address the ideal of and expectations towards transnational mothering in Cape Verde, relating these to local forms of kinship, fostering and household organisation. We demonstrate that lengthy separations between mothers and young children are socially constructed as a normal aspect of transnational lives: they are a painful necessity, but are not automatically assumed to be traumatic. In an ideal situation, the biological mother and the foster mother play complementary roles in what we describe as the transnational fostering triangle. Subsequently, we ask how transnational mothering is confronted by unforeseen incidents and obstacles, which we refer to as contingencies. We relate these contingencies to the negotiation of individual and collective ideas and aspirations. The Cape Verdean case is interesting in a comparative perspective because of the social acceptance of mother–child separation. Our analysis explores how this acceptance co-exists with the real-life challenges of transnational mothering.
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Africa's return migrants : the new developers?
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as connections and experience gained abroad. Yet, the reality is altogether more complex.In this much-needed volume, based on extensive original fieldwork, the authors reveal that there is all too often a gaping divide between abstract policy assumptions and migrants' actual practices. In contrast to the prevailing optimism of policies on migration and development, Africa's Return Migrants demonstrates that the capital obtained abroad is not always advantageous and that it can even hamper successful entrepreneurship and other forms of economic, political and social engagement.
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- Åkesson, Lisa, 1960-, et al.
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Introduction : [Africa's return migrants]
- 2015
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Ingår i: Africa's return migrants. - London ; Uppsala : Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. - 9781783602339 ; , s. 1-22
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- Åkesson, Lisa, 1960-
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Making migrants responsible for development : Cape Verdean returnees and Northern migration policies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Africa Spectrum. - : SAGE Publications. - 0002-0397 .- 1868-6869. ; 46:1, s. 61-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the positive effects of international migration in countries of origin. This article contrasts some basic assumptions in policies on migration, return and development with an anthropological study of Cape Verdean returnees, and it reveals some important disparities between the returnees’ experiences and the ideas underpinning policy documents. The article analyses the role returnees’ savings and skills play in local change in Cape Verde, and in particular it looks into entrepreneurial activities. This is related to a discussion of the conditions that must be fulfilled in order to make it possible for return migrants to contribute to positive social change. In conclusion, the article shows that structural conditions have a fundamental impact on individual migrants’ abilities to support development, a perspective often left out of contemporary policies.
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- Åkesson, Lisa, 1960-
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Migrant remittances, social inequality and restrictive immigration regimes
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The case of Cape Verde shows that the relationship between remittances and inequality in migrant-sending countries depends on a number of factors. The situation is thus more complicatedthan the dominant pessimistic view of the 1970s and 1980s or today’s “development optimism” discourse. Among the factors are changes over time in the selectivity of migrants, variations in family organization and differences in impact between permanent and return migration. A policy debate about remittances and inequality needs to include immigration regimes. Migrant-sending countries can reduce the risk that remittances will exacerbate socioeconomicinequality by facilitating the use of remittances for projects that benefit local communities. Destination countries can open up possibilities for legal labour migration, especiallyfor those who are not highly educated, in order to promote, among other things, a more equal distribution of remittances.
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