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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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An imagined nation: Guineans in the Diaspora
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42. Transnational spaces/cosmopolitan times: African associations in Europe
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| Paper ID | 584 |
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Carvalho, Clara
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Although Guinea Bissau has for long dealt with emigration, the 1998 coup d’état led to a massive abandon of the country by members of elite groups such as entrepreneurs, state officials and former members of the government, NGO’s professionals, doctors, professors, journalists. Many of these new migrants were the most active voices of the former civil society in Guinea-Bissau and their commitment to their country helped to create a diasporical sense of identity in their new homelands. In this paper I’ll focus on the associations of the members of the Guinean Diaspora in Portugal, stressing their identity strategies and their role in the recreation of an idea of nationhood. |
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