Black women saving white masculinities: the masculinizing effects of Portuguese migration to Angola

• Published in: Gender, place and culture : a journal of feminist geography Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 418 - 438
• Main Author: Valente Cardoso, Carolina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 04.03.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Andra geografiska studier; Angola; Black people; Black white relations; Borders; Colonialism; Gender Studies; Genusstudier; Geography; hegemonic masculinity; Intimacy; love; Luso-tropicalism; masculinities; Masculinity; men; Middle age; Migrants; Migration; North-South migration; Other Geographic Studies; Portugal; Race; Scripts; Scrutiny; sex; sexuality; Social Anthropology; Socialantropologi; whiteness; Women; Women's Studies; Young women; Angola

Informed by an ethnographic study on the recent Portuguese work migration to Angola, this article starts from the observation that a specific type of intimate relations between migrants and hosts was subject to intense social scrutiny within the migrant community: the one composed by middle-aged Por...