Marxian Crisis, Maussian Gift: The mutual-help practices of Lisbon’s Cape Verdean labor immigrants in an age of austerity
The post-2008 economic crisis in Portugal has been particularly severe in the neighborhoods in which many of the country’s Cape Verdean labor immigrants live. In this article, I will attempt to examine how my informants have conceptualized the current downturn, as well as how they have used ‘gifts’...
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Language: | English |
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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2012-12-01
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Series: | Cadernos de Estudos Africanos |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cea/629 |