The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role

Reis, Bruno Cardoso; Oliveira, Pedro Aires

doi:10.1080/07075332.2016.1253599

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“…Portugal has effectively managed to keep the spotlight on its progressive migration policies, embedded into a hegemonic narrative of “institutional good practices” and to avoid recognition of the violence of its border regime (Santinho et al, 2020). During the COVID‐19 syndemic, however, the impact of this violence, embedded in a matrix of longstanding racial inequalities (Braga, 2020; Castelo, 2021; Reis & Oliveira, 2018), has become striking. While more people on the move tested positive for COVID‐19, the state strategy was to hastily relocate them to different sites to prevent further media attention on this situation.…”

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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

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Rebelo

Olanrewaju

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as “border imperialism.” Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic‐sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID‐19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased—and new—forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID‐19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact.

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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

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Rebelo

Olanrewaju

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American J of Comm Psychol

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“…See, for example, Dávila (2010). and the West, which, in itself, presupposed not giving leeway to any other novel actors on the ground (Reis & Oliveira 2018). Hence, even if prosaic formulas adopted by Portuguese diplomats deeming Brazil a 'competitor but [still] an ally' in Africa continued to populate official discourse, a zero-sum perception over each country's insertions and opportunities in Lusophone countries remained (Gama 1985, 286-287;Carvalho 2016).…”

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From Opportunity Seeking to Gap Filling: Reframing Brazil in Lusophone Africa

Seabra

2020

Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century

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This chapter inquires whether Brazil's headways in Africa over recent years were organic in nature and in content or if, in fact, were achieved at the expenses of other previously established actors. By reframing Brazil's agenda towards African Lusophone countries in juxtaposition to the perceived external downturn of Portugal, the propitious context and consequences of a new player on the continent can be best brought into evidence. The pushand-pull forces enacted by both Brazil and Portugal towards Lusophone Africa are explored through the aftermath of the 2012 military coup in Guinea-Bissau and the adhesion of Equatorial-Guinea to the CPLP in 2014. The chapter offers a reinterpretation of Brazil's net gains in Africa and argues for its fragility and susceptibility to changing political-economic cycles.provide. This outcome further solidified a reverse of fortunes after a decade and half in which most observers would have had likely bet on an inverted dynamic.More strikingly, it came on the heels of an opportunity provided by a partner which Brazil had, witting or unwittingly, sought to circumvent in recent years. As Brazil significantly increased its profile in African Lusophone countries, it benefitted from an added erosion of Portuguese clout on the ground. Hence, and given the stark policy changes that have recently taken place in Brasília, this chapter inquires whether previously lauded headways towards Africa in the high-politics domain were indeed organic in nature and in content or if, in fact, were largely achieved at the expenses of other established actors. The geographic selection is set on where Brazil's priority has been more intense, whenever any wider African agenda was rolled out in contemporary history. This regional choice comes with one important caveat, i.e. inroads in the CAR will never be on the same plaining field as Brazil's track-record with, for example, Angola or Mozambique. Inferences that apply to the broader continent are therefore more difficult to extrapolate. That said, such clear-cut geographic preference still allows to explore the set of conditions that instilled Brazil's expanded profile in the first place.The core claim lies on the necessity to go against pre-established narratives of inevitability, that Brazil succeeded, succeeds or will succeed in Africa just because. A more critical approach is in need if the current debate is to move forward. I argue that Brazil has only been able to venture into Africa and will only do so once more whenever the right set of externally-driven conditions are in place. That includes not only taking advantage of unexpected opportunities but also in filling-in gaps made possible by other players competing for the same space of influence. In both cases, expansive cycles with corresponding material resources are paramount. Yet, if credible commitments are not dully provided across the Atlantic, any occasional upswing of the sort will invariably prove short-lived.Based on interviews, diplomatic cables 2 , and a review of previous literature, ...

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Portugal’s Contemporary Relations with Africa: A Limited Shelter?

Raimundo

2023

The World of Small States

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The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role

Cited by 9 publications

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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

From Opportunity Seeking to Gap Filling: Reframing Brazil in Lusophone Africa

Portugal’s Contemporary Relations with Africa: A Limited Shelter?

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