September 2024
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Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
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Publications (40)
February 2023
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This study on Muslims in the municipality of Sintra in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal, promotes an ethnographic approach to their socioeconomic, cultural, and religious realities. Commissioned by Sintra City Council, (Solidarity and Social Innovation), it aims to understand Muslims' socioeconomic insertion in one of the regions with the greatest cultural and religious diversity in the country. It is a study that aims particularly to address gender issues that have been neglected in the studies of Muslims in Portugal. This study, coordinated by José Mapril (CRIA-FCSH) and Raquel Carvalheira (CRIA-FCSH), results from CRIA’s commitment to promoting the dissemination of anthropology in the community and allows it to strengthen the relations between science and the local public administration.
December 2022
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December 2022
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June 2021
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147 Reads
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5 Citations
Lusotopie
Resumo A história do Islão e dos muçulmanos no Portugal contemporâneo está indelevelmente marcada pelas dinâmicas coloniais, mas também por processos pós-coloniais. As próprias configurações institucionais do “Islão público” na sociedade portuguesa revelam esta importância e, simultaneamente, criaram as condições para uma hierarquização de determinadas vozes e projectos entre os muçulmanos. Partindo de três pesquisas sustentadas em trabalho de campo etnográfico sobre a Associação Islâmica e Cultural da Margem Sul, que representa a congregação afecta a uma mesquita de inspiração sufi no concelho de Almada, a Noor Fatima, um projecto caritativo encabeçado por uma mulher muçulmana de origem indo-moçambicana, e o Centro Islâmico do Bangladesh ( CIB ), envolvido no projecto da construção da nova praça da Mouraria, o objectivo deste artigo é demonstrar, por um lado, que esta hierarquia se sustenta em discursos dominantes sobre o Islão, que sublinham uma clivagem entre “muçulmanos portugueses” e “outros muçulmanos”, e, por outro lado, que existem margens que contestam esses discursos, revelando interessantes (des)articulações entre mobilidades, dinâmicas coloniais e pós-imperiais, políticas de reconhecimento e a produção de alteridades.
March 2021
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March 2021
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1 Citation
January 2021
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129 Reads
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1 Citation
Migration Letters
This special issue stems from a panel we organised at the European Conference on South Asian Studies in 2018, under the title ‘Banglascapes in Southern Europe: comparative perspectives’. Not all the panel participants from that conference feature in this special issue, and not all the authors included here were present at the conference. Nevertheless, the panel represents a first important moment in which we began to collect case-studies and insights on a relatively new aspect of the so-called Bengali, or Bangladeshi, ‘diaspora’.
January 2021
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Migration Letters
In 1996, Appadurai argued that imagination is an essential element in the creation of cross-border political forms.Electronic media, for example, establishes links across national boundaries, linking those who move and those who stay.In his argument, these diasporic public spheres were examples of post-national political worlds and revealed the erosion of the nation-state in the face of globalisation and modernity. In this paper, I draw inspiration on this concept of diasporicpublic sphere but to show how these imaginaries are intimately tied to forms of group making and emplacement in several contexts. This argument is based on an ethnographic research about the creation of a transnational federation ofBangladeshi associations – the All European Bangladeshi Association (AEBA) – in the past decade, its main objectivesand activities. Through the analysis of an AEBA event that took place in Lisbon, I want to show the productive dialecticbetween diasporic imaginaries, group formation and emplacement processes between Portugal and Bangladesh.
January 2021
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14 Citations
International Migration
Based on a longitudinal ethnography with Bangladeshis in Lisbon and in London, this article unravels the ways my interlocutors perceive their onward migration projects to the UK. Their decision to migrate once again was intimately connected with the education of their children. This would not only make them fluent in English language, a global language of power and prestige according to many but would give them access to better opportunities in the labour market. Simultaneously, these new mobilities had a tremendous emotional/affective price and were seen by the parents as a sacrifice and a new beginning. This article argues that these new beginnings are not about the accumulation of diverse forms of capital per se but rather the creation of larger horizon of expectations based on the redistribution logic of relatedness, kinship and domestic units; in sum, onward migration was a future‐making strategy in contexts of economic uncertainty.
Citations (17)
... Islamic communities also intersect with the dynamics of the heritagization of memory. For some social scientists, Muslims in today's Iberian Peninsula introduce a new typology in the itineraries of recomposition of Muslim daily life in Europe (Martikainen et al. 2019;Vakil 2003;Tiesler 2000). In addition to circuits for economic, diplomatic, and educational reasons, in addition to a traditional presence in European regions such as the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula accounts for an inscription that can represent itself as an "interruption". ...
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July 2019
... Building democracy in Portugal in the 1970s was a favorable occasion for religious diversification through post-colonial flows of Hindus and Muslims (Lourenço 2020;Mapril et al. 2021). Nevertheless, the most relevant impact was in the diversification of Christian identities. ...
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June 2021
Lusotopie
... Following the work of Conradson and Latham (2005), this literature often positions young people as 'middling transnationals' who are middle class both at home and abroad (Collins, 2014). In the context of discussions in this paper, the term 'middling' is particularly useful because it highlights how young people's mobilities can be simultaneously entangled with the reproduction and maintenance of middle-class aspirations or life projects (Mapril, 2021), as well as vulnerable to downward and contradictory forms of social mobility as a consequence of their movement through space (Rutten and Verstappen, 2014 movers, focused on their own life and lifestyle goals. As a result, the ongoing significance of family and community relationships is seldom featured in this literature , and potential cultural and social conditions within home countries and families are not often made central. ...
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January 2021
International Migration
... Portugal joined the European Union (EU) in 1986 after a turbulent decade following the fall of a 50-year fascist dictatorship in 1974. The newly allocated EU funds facilitated an extensive modernisation project, fuelling nation-wide aspirations of transforming from a semi-peripheral country into a fully 'European', 'modern', and 'developed' country (Mapril and Blanes 2018). ...
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June 2018
... Th is led Craig Calhoun (2010: 35) to observe that secular orientations may shape the sacred or transcendent. Th e subsequent debate around secularism has examined the diff erent ways in which secularism shapes religion and religion shapes secularism (Mapril et al. 2017). Hence, in the immanent frame of secularity, "the question becomes whether or not belief-in transcendence in particular-is any longer what it once was" (Rectenwald and Almeida 2017: 5). ...
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January 2017
... Findings have shown that by watching Bengali TV they not only become familiar with the dayto-day affairs of their homeland but they also help their children to learn the Bengali language and its cultural aspects. In addition, their strong memories of and hopes for their homeland were also highlighted in their statements (Mapril 2014(Mapril , 2016 where good news about their homeland makes them happy and bad news depresses them. As two of our respondents explained: ...
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January 2016
... They relate to the virtual trajectories of the deceased and to the mourning of the survivors in speci c time-spaces (De Maaker 2016). In contemporary Western Europe, afterlife beliefs take shape against the background of declining institutional religion and religious observance (Davie 2000), increasingly secular norms (Mahmood 2015;Mapril et al. 2017), and a greater presence of varied minority religions. They are shaped by migration and globalization, and by religious, spiritual, and secular plurality. ...
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February 2017
... Findings have shown that by watching Bengali TV they not only become familiar with the dayto-day affairs of their homeland but they also help their children to learn the Bengali language and its cultural aspects. In addition, their strong memories of and hopes for their homeland were also highlighted in their statements (Mapril 2014(Mapril , 2016 where good news about their homeland makes them happy and bad news depresses them. As two of our respondents explained: ...
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July 2014
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
... There are several studies on death in migratory contexts in Portugal: One migrant group with a large representation in Portugal, after Cape Verdeans, are from Guinea Bissau, bringing an ethnically based culture full of rituals and beliefs. The case of these migrants was studied by Saraiva (2015) and Saraiva and Mapril (2014), but other studies of Cape Verdean migrants in Portugal in relation to death have not been identified. ...
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January 2014
... Job opportunities refer to the availability of employment aligned with skills and qualifications, often influencing migration decisions as individuals seek education in regions with better post-graduation prospects (Smith, 2009;Becker, 1993). Alam and Mamun (2022) demonstrated that urban centers with higher employment rates in Bangladesh attract students, while Mapril (2013) highlighted that Bangladeshi students migrate to Europe seeking stable and lucrative careers. This underscores the critical role of employment availability in shaping student migration patterns. ...
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May 2013
Modern Asian Studies