E P Challinor
Biographic Data
| ID | 16409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E P Challinor |
| GIVEN NAMES | E P |
| FAMILY NAME | Challinor |
| SIGNATURE | CHALLINOR E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Research in Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4374-067X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating through the Cracks of the State System
Portugal's tolerance towards irregular migration and its relatively extensive citizenship rights, in comparison with other European countries, have contributed towards its reputation as a migrant friendly state. However, when the state turns a blind eye to the irregular status of migrants and when the outsourcing of refugee reception to civil society fails to deliver according to Weberian expectations of an orderly, rational bureaucracy, who has …
Frustrated horizons
Through an ethnographic study including interviews with refugees and staff working for hosting organisations and analyses of two state-run training events, the article traces the ways in which outsourcing blurs accountability lines between the state and the voluntary sector. It examines how distrust emerges from the discrepancies between official narratives of successful refugee reception services and the realities faced by refugees and hosting o…
The challenges of education in contexts of increasing migratory diversity
We discuss the repercussions of the intensification and heterogeneity of contemporary migrations, especially forced migrations, in compulsory schooling contexts in Portugal. Our objectives are (i) to identify the major educational challenges arising from transnational migration, (ii) to understand how schools, still very much rooted in an educational-pedagogical nationalism, adjust to these challenges and (iii) to understand the practices of educ…
Ojos abiertos
Bastions of Hope Source: Gwendolen Lynch Each photograph in the jigsaw is a member (and in one case a friend) of the association Sevilla Bebés Robados for whom I have written a poem in Spanish based on their story. It is estimated that more than 300.000 babies were taken from their mothers in Spain without their consent during and well after the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. The practice began following the end of the Spanish civil war …
Exploring the power of the written word
The events surrounding the expectations and experiences of a hospitalised childbirth in Northern Portugal are presented as an auto-ethnography, written in 2004, in the format of a diary and commented upon with hindsight by the author. The original motivation for writing the diary was to re-gain a degree of power over the birth process which, even before going into labour, the author felt she had already lost in comparison to her previous experien…
The educational (im)mobilities and status (il)legalities of Cape Verdean youth in Portugal
Education has played a fundamental role shaping Cape Verdean mobilities and recent increases in educational opportunities for poorer sections of the youth population have raised expectations for a better life. Through a discussion of how modern-day education has become a project of self-realisation, the article provides a detailed analysis of a regime of mobility that encouraged Cape Verdeans to study in vocational colleges in Portugal. It illust…
Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal
This article discusses the legal and institutional framework of refugee hospitality in Portugal. This sets the context for an analysis of how hospitality encounters take place in northern towns between asylum seekers, refugees, voluntary hosting institutions, public services, and volunteers. The aim is to enquire into the conflicting expectations, morals, and values of these different people and institutions, and into how they are managed and neg…
Cross-border citizenship
The article examines how encounters in the everyday lives of three Cape Verdean migrant students in northern Portugal triggered acts of citizenship which assisted them in their new roles as mothers, cutting across indifference, solitude and inequality. By experiencing motherhood as an unexpected interruption in their lives, the women simultaneously occupied the subject positions of migrant mothers and of diasporic youth. The article discusses how…
Caught Between Changing Tides
Gender ideologies in Cape Verde are shifting. Individuals find themselves \ncaught between changing tides, pushed and pulled in opposite directions by divergent \ngendered expectations. The article examines the different ways in which young women \nand men take recourse to tactics in response to the tensions that arise as they deal \nwith changing gender ascriptions in the midst of their relations with community and \nkin. Women, in particular, a…
In dialogue with self and the world
O estado do corpo imigrante e o corpo do Estado
Por meio de uma análise etnográfica das interfaces sociais entre agentes do Estado e estudantes cabo-verdianos em Portugal, observadas através da observação participante em consultas médicas, em trabalho social, no Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras e no serviço jurídico de apoio ao imigrante, este artigo pretende examinar as práticas disciplinares do Estado e as negociações e lutas de poder que ocorrem. Os casos etnográficos discutidos demonst…
Home and Overseas
Cape Verde’s history of colonial neglect, drought, famine, and forced migration—coupled with its arid climate, poor resource base, and dependence upon foreign aid—has turned migration into a structural survival strategy. Cape Verdean identity is thus marked by a collective looking forward toward other geographical locations where relatives and friends have made a new home, and a collective looking back-ward—to relatives and friends left behind in…
Mobile communications and belongings
The use of the mobile phone to contact research subjects granted me privileged access to a body of poetic and humorous texts. This article examines Cape Verdeans' use of pass-forward text messages to express allegiances to different collective identities that provide information and inspiration for Cape Verdeans living in Portugal. They are used to foment and express solidarity between Cape Verdeans, Africans, Christians and Women. An analysis of…
Staying with the tension
The position of the anthropologist in the field is discussed, in this article, as a position of “estranged intimacy”, that is to say, the anthropologist occupies an ambiguous position of becoming intimately involved whilst concurrently standing back. This definition derives from reflections upon fieldwork, conducted in the north of Portugal, with Cape Verdean migrant young women and their experiences as mothers. The article discusses two aspects …
Cidadania médica, culturas e poder nos cuidados perinatais e pediátricos de imigrantes
Através de uma descrição detalhada das consultas médicas de mães Cabo-Verdianas, estudantes em Portugal, observadas ao longo de dois anos de trabalho de campo, este artigo pretende elucidar as relações de poder inerentes na institucionalização da biomedicina em que as diferenças culturais são ignoradas, mal-entendidas e criticadas, oferecendo uma análise crítica sobre o princípio de tratamento igual para todos. A observação das consultas médicas …
Researching ethnicity, identity, subjectivity
n The article gives a frank account of how anthropological research on Cape Verdean migrant experiences of parenthood in Portugal developed from avoiding the use of the analytical concept of `race? to encountering `race? as a category of practice in fieldwork and discusses the implications of this for analyzing the data. Although the aim of the research was to look beyond categorizations, to explore the emotional dimensions of lived experience, t…
Identidade e pertença
Um olhar antropológico sobre as relações sociais em dois microcosmos etnográficos – um bairro e um centro de saúde – revela as limitações de encarar a pobreza material como o único critério para compreender os processos de sofrimento social. De forma a explorar como o sofrimento social pode ser vivenciado através das identificações e das pertenças, a identidade étnica e a identidade profissional são examinadas como exemplos da identidade social e…
Home and Overseas
Cape Verde’s history of colonial neglect, drought, famine, and forced migration—coupled with its arid climate, poor resource base, and dependence upon foreign aid—has turned migration into a structural survival strategy. Cape Verdean identity is thus marked by a collective looking forward toward other geographical locations where relatives and friends have made a new home, and a collective looking backward—to relatives and friends left behind in …
Caught Between Changing Tides
Gender ideologies in Cape Verde are shifting. Individuals find themselves \ncaught between changing tides, pushed and pulled in opposite directions by divergent \ngendered expectations. The article examines the different ways in which young women \nand men take recourse to tactics in response to the tensions that arise as they deal \nwith changing gender ascriptions in the midst of their relations with community and \nkin. Women, in particular, a…
Researching ethnicity, identity, subjectivity
n The article gives a frank account of how anthropological research on Cape Verdean migrant experiences of parenthood in Portugal developed from avoiding the use of the analytical concept of `race? to encountering `race? as a category of practice in fieldwork and discusses the implications of this for analyzing the data. Although the aim of the research was to look beyond categorizations, to explore the emotional dimensions of lived experience, t…
Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal
This article discusses the legal and institutional framework of refugee hospitality in Portugal. This sets the context for an analysis of how hospitality encounters take place in northern towns between asylum seekers, refugees, voluntary hosting institutions, public services, and volunteers. The aim is to enquire into the conflicting expectations, morals, and values of these different people and institutions, and into how they are managed and neg…
Cross-border citizenship
The article examines how encounters in the everyday lives of three Cape Verdean migrant students in northern Portugal triggered acts of citizenship which assisted them in their new roles as mothers, cutting across indifference, solitude and inequality. By experiencing motherhood as an unexpected interruption in their lives, the women simultaneously occupied the subject positions of migrant mothers and of diasporic youth. The article discusses how…
In dialogue with self and the world
Cidadania médica, culturas e poder nos cuidados perinatais e pediátricos de imigrantes
Através de uma descrição detalhada das consultas médicas de mães Cabo-Verdianas, estudantes em Portugal, observadas ao longo de dois anos de trabalho de campo, este artigo pretende elucidar as relações de poder inerentes na institucionalização da biomedicina em que as diferenças culturais são ignoradas, mal-entendidas e criticadas, oferecendo uma análise crítica sobre o princípio de tratamento igual para todos. A observação das consultas médicas …
Identidade e pertença
Um olhar antropológico sobre as relações sociais em dois microcosmos etnográficos – um bairro e um centro de saúde – revela as limitações de encarar a pobreza material como o único critério para compreender os processos de sofrimento social. De forma a explorar como o sofrimento social pode ser vivenciado através das identificações e das pertenças, a identidade étnica e a identidade profissional são examinadas como exemplos da identidade social e…
O estado do corpo imigrante e o corpo do Estado
Por meio de uma análise etnográfica das interfaces sociais entre agentes do Estado e estudantes cabo-verdianos em Portugal, observadas através da observação participante em consultas médicas, em trabalho social, no Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras e no serviço jurídico de apoio ao imigrante, este artigo pretende examinar as práticas disciplinares do Estado e as negociações e lutas de poder que ocorrem. Os casos etnográficos discutidos demonst…
Home and Overseas
Cape Verde’s history of colonial neglect, drought, famine, and forced migration—coupled with its arid climate, poor resource base, and dependence upon foreign aid—has turned migration into a structural survival strategy. Cape Verdean identity is thus marked by a collective looking forward toward other geographical locations where relatives and friends have made a new home, and a collective looking backward—to relatives and friends left behind in …
Identidade e pertença
Um olhar antropológico sobre as relações sociais em dois microcosmos etnográficos – um bairro e um centro de saúde – revela as limitações de encarar a pobreza material como o único critério para compreender os processos de sofrimento social. De forma a explorar como o sofrimento social pode ser vivenciado através das identificações e das pertenças, a identidade étnica e a identidade profissional são examinadas como exemplos da identidade social e…
Mobile communications and belongings
The use of the mobile phone to contact research subjects granted me privileged access to a body of poetic and humorous texts. This article examines Cape Verdeans' use of pass-forward text messages to express allegiances to different collective identities that provide information and inspiration for Cape Verdeans living in Portugal. They are used to foment and express solidarity between Cape Verdeans, Africans, Christians and Women. An analysis of…
Staying with the tension
The position of the anthropologist in the field is discussed, in this article, as a position of “estranged intimacy”, that is to say, the anthropologist occupies an ambiguous position of becoming intimately involved whilst concurrently standing back. This definition derives from reflections upon fieldwork, conducted in the north of Portugal, with Cape Verdean migrant young women and their experiences as mothers. The article discusses two aspects …
Cidadania médica, culturas e poder nos cuidados perinatais e pediátricos de imigrantes
Através de uma descrição detalhada das consultas médicas de mães Cabo-Verdianas, estudantes em Portugal, observadas ao longo de dois anos de trabalho de campo, este artigo pretende elucidar as relações de poder inerentes na institucionalização da biomedicina em que as diferenças culturais são ignoradas, mal-entendidas e criticadas, oferecendo uma análise crítica sobre o princípio de tratamento igual para todos. A observação das consultas médicas …
Researching ethnicity, identity, subjectivity
n The article gives a frank account of how anthropological research on Cape Verdean migrant experiences of parenthood in Portugal developed from avoiding the use of the analytical concept of `race? to encountering `race? as a category of practice in fieldwork and discusses the implications of this for analyzing the data. Although the aim of the research was to look beyond categorizations, to explore the emotional dimensions of lived experience, t…
Home and Overseas
Cape Verde’s history of colonial neglect, drought, famine, and forced migration—coupled with its arid climate, poor resource base, and dependence upon foreign aid—has turned migration into a structural survival strategy. Cape Verdean identity is thus marked by a collective looking forward toward other geographical locations where relatives and friends have made a new home, and a collective looking back-ward—to relatives and friends left behind in…
O estado do corpo imigrante e o corpo do Estado
Por meio de uma análise etnográfica das interfaces sociais entre agentes do Estado e estudantes cabo-verdianos em Portugal, observadas através da observação participante em consultas médicas, em trabalho social, no Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras e no serviço jurídico de apoio ao imigrante, este artigo pretende examinar as práticas disciplinares do Estado e as negociações e lutas de poder que ocorrem. Os casos etnográficos discutidos demonst…
In dialogue with self and the world
Caught Between Changing Tides
Gender ideologies in Cape Verde are shifting. Individuals find themselves \ncaught between changing tides, pushed and pulled in opposite directions by divergent \ngendered expectations. The article examines the different ways in which young women \nand men take recourse to tactics in response to the tensions that arise as they deal \nwith changing gender ascriptions in the midst of their relations with community and \nkin. Women, in particular, a…
Exploring the power of the written word
The events surrounding the expectations and experiences of a hospitalised childbirth in Northern Portugal are presented as an auto-ethnography, written in 2004, in the format of a diary and commented upon with hindsight by the author. The original motivation for writing the diary was to re-gain a degree of power over the birth process which, even before going into labour, the author felt she had already lost in comparison to her previous experien…
The educational (im)mobilities and status (il)legalities of Cape Verdean youth in Portugal
Education has played a fundamental role shaping Cape Verdean mobilities and recent increases in educational opportunities for poorer sections of the youth population have raised expectations for a better life. Through a discussion of how modern-day education has become a project of self-realisation, the article provides a detailed analysis of a regime of mobility that encouraged Cape Verdeans to study in vocational colleges in Portugal. It illust…
Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal
This article discusses the legal and institutional framework of refugee hospitality in Portugal. This sets the context for an analysis of how hospitality encounters take place in northern towns between asylum seekers, refugees, voluntary hosting institutions, public services, and volunteers. The aim is to enquire into the conflicting expectations, morals, and values of these different people and institutions, and into how they are managed and neg…
Cross-border citizenship
The article examines how encounters in the everyday lives of three Cape Verdean migrant students in northern Portugal triggered acts of citizenship which assisted them in their new roles as mothers, cutting across indifference, solitude and inequality. By experiencing motherhood as an unexpected interruption in their lives, the women simultaneously occupied the subject positions of migrant mothers and of diasporic youth. The article discusses how…
Ojos abiertos
Bastions of Hope Source: Gwendolen Lynch Each photograph in the jigsaw is a member (and in one case a friend) of the association Sevilla Bebés Robados for whom I have written a poem in Spanish based on their story. It is estimated that more than 300.000 babies were taken from their mothers in Spain without their consent during and well after the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. The practice began following the end of the Spanish civil war …
The challenges of education in contexts of increasing migratory diversity
We discuss the repercussions of the intensification and heterogeneity of contemporary migrations, especially forced migrations, in compulsory schooling contexts in Portugal. Our objectives are (i) to identify the major educational challenges arising from transnational migration, (ii) to understand how schools, still very much rooted in an educational-pedagogical nationalism, adjust to these challenges and (iii) to understand the practices of educ…
Navigating through the Cracks of the State System
Portugal's tolerance towards irregular migration and its relatively extensive citizenship rights, in comparison with other European countries, have contributed towards its reputation as a migrant friendly state. However, when the state turns a blind eye to the irregular status of migrants and when the outsourcing of refugee reception to civil society fails to deliver according to Weberian expectations of an orderly, rational bureaucracy, who has …
Frustrated horizons
Through an ethnographic study including interviews with refugees and staff working for hosting organisations and analyses of two state-run training events, the article traces the ways in which outsourcing blurs accountability lines between the state and the voluntary sector. It examines how distrust emerges from the discrepancies between official narratives of successful refugee reception services and the realities faced by refugees and hosting o…
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Cape verde (6 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)