%0 Journal Article
%T Marxian Crisis, Maussian Gift: The mutual-help practices of Lisbon£¿s Cape Verdean labor immigrants in an age of austerity
%A Weeks
%A Samuel
%J Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
%D 2012
%I Instituto Universitš¢rio de Lisboa
%X the post-2008 economic crisis in portugal has been particularly severe in the neighborhoods in which many of the country¡¯s cape verdean labor immigrants live. in this article, i will attempt to examine how my informants have conceptualized the current downturn, as well as how they have used ¡®gifts¡¯ of mutual help (djuda) to cope with, or even overcome, the profound challenges of living on a lisbon periphery in crisis. an additional factor i will explore is the perception among my informants that the giving of mutual-help gifts has lost importance. i will argue that there is a disconnect between cape verdeans perceiving that their mutual-help practices are in decline and simultaneously needing the material support that they provide.
%K cape verdeans
%K lisbon
%K crisis
%K mutual-help practices
%K gift economy.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-37942012000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en