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Migrations of Africans to Europe - reasons, expectations and strategies based on research in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau

2015/17/D/HS3/03140

Keywords:

migrations Africans Europe globalisation postcolonial development polygamy cross-cultural gender,Guinea-Bissau Gambia

Descriptors:

  • HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Historyczny

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Magdalena Brzezińska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: SONATA 9 - announced on 2015-03-16

Amount awarded: 269 856 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-02-25

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2019-08-24

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  1. 'Emigration is Luck': Destiny, Witchcraft and Uncertainty in Migratory Journeys from the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau
    Authors:
    Brzezińska, Magdalena
    Academic press:
    Ethnos , Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Group
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    10.1080/00141844.2024.2327982 - link to the publication
  2. Transcontinental polygyny, migration and hegemonic masculinity in Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia
    Authors:
    Brzezińska, Magdalena
    Academic press:
    The Australian Journal of Anthropology (rok: 2021, tom: 32, nr 3, strony: 257-271), Wydawca: Andrew McWilliam
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/taja.12417 - link to the publication
  3. Kreolizacja czy homogenizacja? Język kreolski, wieloetniczność i konstruowanie tożsamości nowoczesnej w Gwinei Bissau
    Authors:
    Brzezińska, Magdalena
    Academic press:
    Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica (rok: 2020, tom: 21, nr 1, strony: 105-122), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
    Status:
    Published
  4. Wyglądać na emigranta. Gra o nowoczesność i konstruowanie męskości w Gwinei Bissau
    Authors:
    Brzezińska, Magdalena
    Academic press:
    Etnografia Polska (rok: 2021, tom: 65, nr 1-2, strony: 67-88), Wydawca: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN
    Status:
    Published
  1. Nowoczesność dzięki kontraktom z duchami. Postrzeganie Europejczyków, Zachodu i pomocy rozwojowej w Gwinei Bissau
    Authors:
    Magdalena Brzezińska
    Book:
    Forum Politologiczne. Tradycja i nowoczesność w Afryce. Społeczeństwo - polityka - gospodarka – kultura (rok: 2017, tom: 22, strony: 119-141), Wydawca: Instytut Nauk Politycznych, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
    Status:
    Published
  2. The 'documents problem' and the 'sea way': global mobility, witchcraft and clandestine migration from Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia to Europe
    Authors:
    Brzezińska Magdalena
    Book:
    H.E. Myeya & M. Ząbek (red.) Migrations in the Contemporary World: A Case of Africa. Cultural and Social Issues (rok: 2020, tom: -, strony: 257-291), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Bernardinum, Pelplin
    Status:
    Published