Table of Contents

Contents - 4[-]Foreword - 6[-]Notes on contributors - 8[-]Ch 1: Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora - 14[-]Ch 2: Cape Verdeans in the U.S. - 36[-]Ch 3: Cape Verdeans in Argentina - 48[-]Ch 4: Cape Verdeans in Sao Tom� and Pr�ncipe - 56[-]Ch 5: Cape Verdeans in Portugal - 62[-]Ch 6: Cape Verdeans in Spain - 74[-]Ch 7: Cape Verdeans in Italy - 82[-]Ch 8: Cape Verdeans in the Netherlands - 92[-]Ch 9: Cape Verdeans in Sweden - 102[-]Ch 10: Making Waves: Cape Verdeans Whaling and the Uses of Photography - 114[-]Ch 11: And When the Women Leave? Female Emigration from Boa Vista - 132[-]Ch 12: Cape Verdeans Tongues: Speaking of 'Nation' at Home and Abroad - 146[-]Ch 13: Cape Verdean Transnationalism on the Internet - 162[-]Ch 14: Images of Emigration in Cape Verdean Music - 174[-]Ch 15: Cape Verdean Migration, Music Recordings and Performance - 190[-]Ch 16: Diasporic Networks, Political Change, and the Growth of Cabo-Zouk Music - 206[-]Ch 17: Managing Work and Care for Young Children in Cae Verdean Families in Portugal - 222[-]Ch 18: Cape Verdeans' Pathways to Health: Local Problems, Transnational Solutions - 238[-]Ch 19: Cape Verdean Diasporic Identity Formation - 256[-]Ch 20: The Resilience of the Cape Verdean Migration Tradition - 270[-]Subject Index - 286

About the Author

Luis Batalha is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Technical University of Lisbon and author of The Cape Verdean Diaspora in Portugal: Colonial Subjects in a Postcolonial World. Jorgen Carling is Senior Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), where he does research on migration and transnationalism.

Reviews

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how people live lives across borders. A must read for those interested in Cape Verde, and other island societies like it, but also for a broader[-]readership interested in the diasporic experience. One of the unique strengths of this book is to show how the same group integrates differently and maintains different kinds of homeland ties depending on[-]the context in which they settle. Few books offer such a valuable comparative perspective.[-][-]Peggy Levitt, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College[-][-]'Transnational Archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora brings together a new generation of scholars of Cape Verdean migration from around the world and from various disciplines. This exciting collection presents original work on in Cape Verdeans in many different national contexts as well as on Cape Verde itself. Batalha and Carling have given us an indispensable new resource for anyone interested in Cape Verde and for students of migration in general. Bravo!' Deirdre Meintel, Director, Groupe de recherche Diversit� urbaine (GRDU) , University of Montreal[-][-] '' This comprehensive account of Cap Verdean migration focuses on an extensive, yet largely invisible diasporic community with a long and complex history of moving, settling and networking in the margins of the Atlantic world. Drawing on an international and inter-disciplinary body of research, the authors trace intriguing, little known routes of travel, explore a variety of destinations in four different continents and uncover a variety of expressions of belonging and longing. By looking beyond the well-known routes of migration to major destinations, described by most students of migration, the book opens up for important new horizons of research and insight. '' Professor Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen[-][-]Shorter versions:[-][-] '' Drawing on an international and inter-disciplinary body of research, this book traces intriguing, little known routes of travel, explores a variety of destinations in four different continents and uncovers a variety of expressions of belonging and longing. By looking beyond the well-known routes of migration to major destinations, described by most students of migration, it opens up for important new horizons of research and insight. '' Professor Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen[-][-] '' This comprehensive account of Cap Verdean migration focuses on an extensive, yet largely invisible diasporic community with a long and complex history of moving, settling and networking in the margins of the Atlantic world. By looking beyond the well-known routes of migration to major destinations, described by most students of migration, it opens up for important new horizons of research and insight.'' Professor Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen