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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Main Author: Samuel Weeks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2012-12-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cea/629