Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Challinor, Elizabeth Pilar
Data de Publicação: 2012
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26645
Resumo: The use of the mobile phone to contact research subjects granted me privileged access to a body of poetic and humorous texts. This article examines Cape Verdeans' use of pass-forward text messages to express allegiances to different collective identities that provide information and inspiration for Cape Verdeans living in Portugal. They are used to foment and express solidarity between Cape Verdeans, Africans, Christians and Women. An analysis of their contents elucidates two aspects of belonging. Firstly, the personal and intimate which tends to the Self, in its yearnings for a better future and for intimate relationship, sought through religious communion and romance. Secondly, the political and discursive which foments community, imagined not only through nation, Pan-Africanism and gender, but also beyond any such boundaries towards an all-inclusive dimension of belonging, rooted in relations of solidarity.
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spelling Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in PortugalCape VerdeMigrationCollective identitiesBelongingGender relationsMobile communication technologyThe use of the mobile phone to contact research subjects granted me privileged access to a body of poetic and humorous texts. This article examines Cape Verdeans' use of pass-forward text messages to express allegiances to different collective identities that provide information and inspiration for Cape Verdeans living in Portugal. They are used to foment and express solidarity between Cape Verdeans, Africans, Christians and Women. An analysis of their contents elucidates two aspects of belonging. Firstly, the personal and intimate which tends to the Self, in its yearnings for a better future and for intimate relationship, sought through religious communion and romance. Secondly, the political and discursive which foments community, imagined not only through nation, Pan-Africanism and gender, but also beyond any such boundaries towards an all-inclusive dimension of belonging, rooted in relations of solidarity.Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaUniversidade do MinhoChallinor, Elizabeth Pilar20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/26645eng1070-289X (Print)10.1080/1070289X.2012.699875#tabModulehttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/1070289X.2012.699875#tabModuleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:10:19Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/26645Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:01:54.508078Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
title Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
spellingShingle Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
Challinor, Elizabeth Pilar
Cape Verde
Migration
Collective identities
Belonging
Gender relations
Mobile communication technology
title_short Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
title_full Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
title_fullStr Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
title_sort Mobile communications and belongings: cape verdeans in Portugal
author Challinor, Elizabeth Pilar
author_facet Challinor, Elizabeth Pilar
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Challinor, Elizabeth Pilar
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cape Verde
Migration
Collective identities
Belonging
Gender relations
Mobile communication technology
topic Cape Verde
Migration
Collective identities
Belonging
Gender relations
Mobile communication technology
description The use of the mobile phone to contact research subjects granted me privileged access to a body of poetic and humorous texts. This article examines Cape Verdeans' use of pass-forward text messages to express allegiances to different collective identities that provide information and inspiration for Cape Verdeans living in Portugal. They are used to foment and express solidarity between Cape Verdeans, Africans, Christians and Women. An analysis of their contents elucidates two aspects of belonging. Firstly, the personal and intimate which tends to the Self, in its yearnings for a better future and for intimate relationship, sought through religious communion and romance. Secondly, the political and discursive which foments community, imagined not only through nation, Pan-Africanism and gender, but also beyond any such boundaries towards an all-inclusive dimension of belonging, rooted in relations of solidarity.
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