Home, Farm and Shop: The Migration of Madeiran Women to South Africa, 1900–1980

Glaser, Clive

doi:10.1080/03057070.2012.732292

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“…In his historical studies on Portuguese migration to South Africa, Glaser (2010Glaser ( , 2012Glaser ( , 2013 outlines three distinct groups of immigrants that can be identified. The first group refers to the Madeirans from the early 1800s to the 1970s (Glaser, 2010).…”

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“…The Madeirans were for the most part illiterate and lacked in skill but tended to stick together, offering employment to fellow Madeirans on and in their farms, shops, coffee houses and fishing endeavours. The second group of Portuguese immigrants saw a more literate and skilled populace from mainland Portugal between 1940 and 1980, with the most substantial concentration being between 1963 and 1971 (Glaser, 2012(Glaser, , 2013.…”

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“…It is the third, and possibly most significant group of Portuguese immigrants to South Africa that saw a more visible and socially organized Portuguese identity in the country. This group included the Angolan and Mozambican Portuguese diaspora that had to flee their respective countries in the wake of civil war and decolonisation between 1974 and 1976 (Glaser, 2012(Glaser, , 2013. They made up the largest single event of Portuguese settlement in the country and differed greatly from the first two groups in that they were a privileged elite, highly educated and skilled professionals, many of whom had suffered great loss in both status and material possessions.…”

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“…The Scout group was frequently featured in an array of ethnic media including newspapers and magazines (Figure 2 above). These included Jornal Popular during the 1970s and 1980s (no longer in circulation) and O Século, a Portuguese language newspaper (started in 1963) based in Johannesburg, claiming to have a circulation of 40 000 and readership of over 200 000 (Glaser, 2012). The latter featured local news stories of people from the Portuguese community as well as an obituary section.…”

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Social Capital and the Making of Diaspora: Evidence From the Portuguese Community of Johannesburg, South Africa

Adinolfi¹

2019

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Studies on diaspora and their links to tourism have more recently gained attention in academic literature, and have become a major theme in tourism scholarship. There is a gap, however, in understanding the role that social capital and networks play in constructing diasporic communities and identities, which can ultimately lead to curiosity around people's heritage and spark the desire to travel for heritage tourism and VFR reasons. The Portuguese diaspora in South Africa have roots dating back to the 15th century when European explorers first landed in the Cape. Since then, significant immigration events have occurred where the community has evolved and integrated into South African society at varying levels. There are numerous examples of the Portuguese social and economic footprint in the country but despite its significant presence, it has been for the most part under researched. The 1 st São Jorge Scouts Group is an instructive case study into how Portuguese immigrants in the wake of the wars in their previous homes in Angola and Mozambique, came together to create an identifiably Portuguese social group in the context of the international Scouting movement. This paper focuses on the making of diasporic communities and the particular role of social capital and networks in the construction of Portuguese identity retained by the scouts group, and contributes to the larger discourse on immigrant integration, sense of belonging and their links to tourism. Key interviews revealed fundamental areas of relevance to the diasporic experience, including notions of identity, the role of religious institutions and a developed sense of community and belonging.

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2019

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“…Similarly, many historians and anthropologists studying migration have perceived waiting as a passive state associated with 'left-behind' relatives of migrants (Murphy, 2020;Parrenas, 2005;Shen, 2012). Others, such as Clive Glaser (2012) and Joya Chatterji (2017), in their inspiring studies, have explained how waiting has been understood as an insignificant adjunct to mobility. While Glaser (2012) focused on how the paralysing waiting experiences of Madeiran women left behind by their migrant husbands have been ignored, Chatterji (2017) explains that focus on migrants and the theatrics of migration give more agential recognition to those who migrate rather than those who waited or chose not to migrate.…”

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Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation

Datta

2022

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

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The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both colonisers and colonised. This article focuses on the experiences of travelling ayahs (servants and nannies) who travelled with colonial families both within and outside the British Empire. This study expands on the previous literature to focus on the experiences of ayahs in Britain and the rest of Europe under unusually difficult situations of waiting brought about by events at both global and individual levels: at the global level, the outbreak of the world wars and at the individual level, the actions of irresponsible employers who abandoned their ayahs in foreign countries. In so doing, the article contributes to a nuanced understanding of how the ayahs navigated waiting as gendered subjects, and simultaneously, how they actively attempted to craft their repatriation in the context of the highly gendered expectations attached to women of South Asian descent on the move.

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‘Every Tom, Dick and Harry’: Understanding the Changing Role of the South African Immigration Industry

Gruchy

2017

International Migrations and Local Governance

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Home, Farm and Shop: The Migration of Madeiran Women to South Africa, 1900–1980

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Social Capital and the Making of Diaspora: Evidence From the Portuguese Community of Johannesburg, South Africa

Social Capital and the Making of Diaspora: Evidence From the Portuguese Community of Johannesburg, South Africa

Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation

‘Every Tom, Dick and Harry’: Understanding the Changing Role of the South African Immigration Industry

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