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| Title: | Migrant Workers and State Boundaries. Reflections on the Transnational Debate from the Colonial Past in Mozambique |
| Author: | Tornimbeni, Corrado |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | Lusotopie |
| Pages: | 107-120 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Mozambique Portugal |
| Subjects: | colonialism labour migration History and Exploration Labor and Employment Urbanization and Migration Politics and Government |
| External link: | http://lusotopie.sciencespobordeaux.fr/tornimbeni2004.pdf |
| Abstract: | Studies on transnationalism reflect a fascination with connections without borders. They concentrate on the tension between the 'old' nation-State and the contemporary 'transnational' circulation of goods, capitals, and people. This article examines how, in the case of southern Africa, some elements surrounding the discourse on transnational migration developed in the colonial past. In Mozambique Portuguese colonialism strengthened socioeconomic distortions in the relationship between the African population and State power over the territory. The patterns of labour migration and the ways of colonial control in the central area of Beira District in the 1940s and 1950s indicate that the international frontier was probably more permeable than the internal borders, if considered in relation to the independent movement of people and to the way transnational links developed. However, the importance of the international frontier effectively grew over time as regards its impact on the migrants' labour relations with the colonial power. Notes, ref., sum. in French, Portugese and English (p. 468). [Journal abstract, edited] |
