“Para eles, nós não somos humanos!”: habitação, território e a monitorização de violências racializadas em Portugal.

Abstract

Resumo O presente artigo pretende analisar criticamente um conjunto de relatórios elaborados por diversas agências nacionais e internacionais que, no decorrer das últimas décadas, têm vindo a monitorizar as desigualdades racializadas no acesso à habitação. Informado por uma viagem etnográfica a um conjunto de acampamentos, bairros autoproduzidos e bairros de realojamento habitados maioritariamente por pessoas ciganas, o artigo procurará pensar a relação entre processos de segregação territorial, racialização e desumanização no Portugal contemporâneo.

On the Road Again: Onward Migration and Transnational Subjectivity Among Portuguese-Guinean Migrants in Peterborough (UK)

“…Indeed, racist beliefs and forms of racism in daily interactions are commonplace in Portugal, although they tend to be obliterated from public opinion (Vala et al, 1999). Yet, racism is, above all, a structural phenomenon, as the legacy of colonial relations translates into a system of discrimination against African migrants and afro-descendants in the fields of justice, law, labour, housing and education (Gorjão Henriques, 2018;Alves, 2019;Raposo et al, 2019). Concurrently, the critical gaze of my subjects extends to British society, where structural racism is palpable in the system of labour division -in which the heaviest, most precarious and least-paid jobs are mostly carried out by migrant workers.…”

Gender and Ethnicity: The Role of Successful Women in Promoting Equality and Social Change

“…The collection of this type of data in Portugal results mostly from statistics produced by institutional entities, non-governmental organizations and the media (European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) [2003][2004]. These data alone are unable to produce either a reliable or a complete picture of the realities around racial discrimination in the country (Alves 2019).…”