Strangers in between : the settling of the syrian-lebanese in Portuguese Guinea 1910-1926 / Estrangeiros no meio : o processo de estabelecimento dos sirio-libaneses na Guine Portuguesa, 1910-1926

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, in the context of their great migration, a few thousand Syrian-Lebanese travelled to and settled in West Africa. All over the region they became middlemen in a then growing trade circuit that carried local produce to the European industry and European manufactures to that new market. Concomitant to the expansion of external trade in the region was the intensification of imperial European states military and administrative presence there and in the rest of the African continent. With the global and regional contexts constantly in the horizon, this dissertation presents a survey of the settlement process of Syrian-Lebanese migrants in Portuguese Guinea (present Guinea- Bissau), focusing the years of the first Portuguese republican period, between 1910 and 1926. The theme is approached through the analysis of written documents produced in the context of the Portuguese colonial administration in the territory. The material allows of an interpretation of the process in which the ambiguity of the condition of stranger plays a central role

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colonias - comércio colonies portugal guine-bissau libaneses - migração lebanese

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