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When people stay and things make their way: airports, mobilities and materialities of a transnational landscape
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:10 authored by Maria AbranchesThis article explores different meanings of mobility and place by examining the interweaving of people, things and airports in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two airports – of departure and arrival of this migratory route – I look at the practices of sending and receiving objects by migrants in Lisbon and their kin in Bissau. The transnational yet grounded setting helps to provide a better understanding of the complexity associated with different forms of mobility – including corporeal, imagined and desired – and their key role in socially and relationally constructing a lived airport space, as well as wider social landscapes. Bringing in evidence from a less-explored setting – a small airport in a West African country – will particularly challenge some of the assumptions that tend to associate mobility with ‘modernity’ and fixity with ‘tradition’. It will show how people in Guinea-Bissau are, as much as migrants abroad, dynamically involved in global practices of movement – materialised in trading and reciprocating objects between two continents – through local performances of mobility that do not necessarily involve corporeal travel across borders.
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MobilitiesISSN
1745-0101Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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4Volume
8Page range
506-527Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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Online First ArticleFull text available
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- Yes
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2012-08-06Usage metrics
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