Locating portuguese hindus: transnationality in urban settings

Authors

  • Rita Avila Cachado CIES-IUL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2014763330

Abstract

This paper presents the case of Portuguese Hindu Gujarati families in Lisbon and in Leicester. It aims to corroborate the increasing importance of the urban referential in transnationality studies. Recent approaches in transntionality studies include the significance of cities for transmigrants under a variety of levels. One of them is social mobility. This paper focus specifically in motility, and it confirms, through ethnography, that beyond the classical national referential, the urban referential plays a central role for migration decisions. Cities confirm what transnationality scholars have been aware of: that migrants live and move between cities.

Author Biography

Rita Avila Cachado, CIES-IUL

Rita Ávila Cachado (1975) is a post-PhD researcher at CIES-IUL with a grant from FCT (Science and Technology Foundation, Portugal). After her graduation in Anthropology (1999) about Portuguese women writers in the 1960s, she began her ethnographic work among Hindu-Gujaratis in Great Lisbon and short incursions in Great London, Leicester and Diu (India). She has a PhD in Urban Anthropology (2008) in ISCTE-URV (Lisbon-Tarragon), with a Thesis about the resettlement process of a Hindu population from a deprived neighborhood. Her research interests are focused on transnationality, urban anthropology, social-economic mobility, biographical methods.

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Published

2014-07-07

Issue

No. 76 (2014)

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