During the COVID-19 pandemic, experts called attention to the fact that the pandemic was dispropo... more During the COVID-19 pandemic, experts called attention to the fact that the pandemic was disproportionately affecting socially vulnerable groups. Research suggested that structural inequalities resulted in unequal access to healthcare and that infection prevention measures increased precarious working conditions in illegal, informal, or unregulated sectors, such as the sex industry. This article reports on research findings that examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and working conditions of 25 women internal migrant sex workers in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. It demonstrates that the pandemic and measures to control it severely impacted the lives of internal migrant sex workers, their affective and work relationships, as well as their income, safety, and physical and mental health. Furthermore, sex workers suffered from disturbing levels of violence and precariousness as well as a lack of effective policies aimed at protecting their health and well-being. This was exacerbated by the stigma, lack of labour rights, and the fact that they were migrants, which impacted them financially and emotionally during movement restrictions.
This article draws on qualitative data on journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and t... more This article draws on qualitative data on journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and teenagers from Sub-Saharan African countries to develop a conceptual analysis of the blurriness of the lines drawn between supposedly different types of movement via referencing the conceptual binary of forced/voluntary movement (such as asylum, trafficking, smuggling). It questions the liberal model of ‘agency’ that is employed not just by state actors, but also by many antislavery, anti-trafficking, child rights, and refugee rights activists, to construct boundaries between different ‘types’ of people on the move. Conceptual divisions between refugees and economic migrants, trafficked and smuggled persons, forced and voluntary labourers, child and adult migrants, and the idea of ‘modern slavery’, deflect attention from the structures that limit the choices open to people on the move. This article argues that the voluntary/forced binary encourages a tendency to falsely conflate choice with freedom and works to preserve the illusion that human freedom is a defining feature of liberal democratic societies rather than working to universally protect the freedoms of actual living human beings.
Antislavery actors evoke the history of the transatlantic slave trade in campaigns to mobilise ac... more Antislavery actors evoke the history of the transatlantic slave trade in campaigns to mobilise action to address the suffering experienced by contemporary migrants described as ‘victims of trafficking’. That framing has been picked up by state actors who present measures to supress unauthorised migration per se as necessary to protect migrants from a ‘modern-day slave trade’. Yet the parallel between trafficking and the slave trade is undermined by the fact that people who today are described as ‘trafficked’, as much as those described as ‘smuggled’, actively wish to travel and do so in the hope that by moving, they will secure greater freedoms. This article therefore asks whether there are similarities between the journeys of contemporary unauthorised migrants and those of enslaved people who fled from slavery in the Atlantic World, and if so, why. Bringing data from historical sources on slave flight into dialogue with data on the journeys of contemporary sub-Saharan African migrants to Europe and Brazil, it identifies a number of experiential parallels, and argues that for those concerned with migrants’ rights, enslaved people’s fugitivity potentially offers a more fruitful point of historical comparison than does the slave trade.
Resumo: Neste artigo, discuto como a análise sociológica crítica e (proto)interseccional de Du Bo... more Resumo: Neste artigo, discuto como a análise sociológica crítica e (proto)interseccional de Du Bois, a qual demonstra conexões entre, e é simultaneamente crítica ao, racismo, sexismo, capitalismo e colonialismo, não apenas precedeu, mas também continua a influenciar discussões sobre gênero, "raça" e classe presentes nos debates contemporâneos da sociologia de gênero, do feminismo negro e interseccional, assim como do marxismo e da "teoria crítica da raça". A partir disso, demonstrarei como a obra de Du Bois ofereceu e continua a oferecer sérias contribuições para o conhecimento social, ajudando-nos a compreender (e a criticar) simultaneamente o racismo, sexismo e capitalismo como sistemas (interligados) de exploração, marginalização e violência. Assim farei a partir da leitura de citações diretas extraídas do trabalho de Du Bois, principalmente de obras que ainda não foram traduzidas para o português. Palavras-chave: Du Bois, interseccionalidade, "raça", classe, gênero DU BOIS' CRITICAL AND (PROTO)INTERSECTIONAL SOCIOLOGY: CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITY, MARXISM AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY Abstract: In this article, I analyse how Du Bois' critical and (proto)intersectional sociological analysis, which demonstrates connections between, and is simultaneously critical of, racism, sexism, capitalism and colonialism, not only preceded, but also continues to influence, discussions on gender, race and class in contemporary debates of sociology of gender, black and intersectional feminism, as well as Marxism and critical race theory. By doing that, I will demonstrate how Du Bois's work has offered important 1 Artigo resultado da pesquisa em andamento "Modern Marronage?: pursuit and practice of freedom in the contemporary world", financiada pelo European Research Council.
(Re)fazendo diferenças de classe em movimento A classe média brasileira em Londres , 2020
Este artigo analisa o papel da classe social (interseccionada com gênero, raça e espaço) na prod... more Este artigo analisa o papel da classe social (interseccionada com gênero, raça e espaço) na produção e negociação da diferença em um contexto de mobilidade transnacional. Para além dos debates que tomam de antemão etnia e/ou nacio-nalidade compartilhadas que resultam na consti-tuição de comunidades transnacionais unificadas e solidárias, este artigo demonstra como brasilei-ros de classe média negociam as representações estigmatizadas de classe (e racializadas) do mi grante na produção de diferenciações sociais em Londres. Diferenças de classe são produzidas na medida em que as jornadas migratórias do grupo analisado são construídas e entendidas como uma experiência cultural e de vida (cosmopolita), dis-tanciando-se assim das representações da comunidade brasileira e do migrante brasileiro, entendi-dos como o pobre/migrante-trabalhador vivendo na comunidade transnacional. Tal diferenciação ocorre a partir de uma avaliação contínua de suas vidas em Londres (aqui) em referência ao Brasil (lá). Refletir sobre o posicionamento deles aqui e lá geralmente permite com que brasileiros da clas-se média se valorizem em comparação aos seus compatriotas em Londres, num contexto político e social que estigmatiza migrantes e comunidades. Tal reflexão também produz frustração, raiva e ambivalências, uma vez que a migração frequen-temente embaralha as demarcações de classe que historicamente garantiam distinções a muitos desses brasileiros no Brasil.
Martins Junior, A., Negotiating Essentialised Cultural and Gendered Differences in a Global world: Brazilians in London. In : Século XXI, Revista de Ciências Sociais. 9, 1, p.159, 2019
In the last decades, transnational scholars have analysed the role of social ties in producing co... more In the last decades, transnational scholars have analysed the role of social ties in producing connections linking people in different places of the world within a context of intense mobility of people and goods in the so-called 'mobile era'. In discussions of ethnicity, nationality and the formation of 'ethnic com-munity' abroad, transnational studies, nevertheless, often far too easily celebrate the 'ethnic commonality' constituting ties of affi nity based on shared cultural experience. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of the transnationalist migratory experience in relation to colonial legacies and to the multiple distinctions existing among and between migrants. In this article I contribute to the discussion on transnational experience by demonstrating how Brazilians in Lon-don are constantly re-signifying and negotiating essentialised and stigmatised representations of cultural differences, intersected with gender and 'race', when speaking about and interacting with each
This article explores the effects of Brazil's recent economic growth and the narrowing of the ine... more This article explores the effects of Brazil's recent economic growth and the narrowing of the inequality gap on the second Brazilian migration wave to the UK over the last two decades. Migration-related research has emphatically argued that this ongoing international mobility results from transnational networks developed by pioneers who encouraged fellow citizens to travel. Although this paper considers social networks as an important factor shaping the movement of Brazilians abroad, we propose to debate contemporary Brazilian migration by shedding light on the national socioeconomic policies implemented since the late 1990s. Thus, through a rigorous literature review of Brazilian transnational migration studies and mul-ti-sited ethnography in Brazil and London, we focus particularly on how the opening up of the Brazilian economy to international capital flow, and the implementation of social programmes followed by the enlargement of its domestic consumer market, helps to explain the current increase and diversification of Brazilians abroad.
Social networks and social capital: possible uses and limitations as sociological categories
No ... more Social networks and social capital: possible uses and limitations as sociological categories
No cenário configurado pela globalização é disseminada e fortalecida aquela que em ciências sociais denomina-se cultura de redes. Aqui, nos refe-rimos, sobretudo, às redes de sociabilidade e de cooperação compostas pela união de agentes que se integram horizontalmente e que formulam modelos de organização pautados pela colaboração e por uma lógica de desenvolvimento integrado de sistemas socioeconômicos que possibilitam arranjos produtivos alternativos e solidários. O espraiamento e o fortalecimento dessa cultura de redes permite gestar formas mais participativas e efetivas de exercício da de-mocracia, assim como de inserção social. Nas sociedades contemporâneas as redes atuam diretamente na estruturação de novas formas de relações sociais, configurando e, ao mesmo tempo, sendo configuradas pela intensificação dos fluxos econômicos, culturais, informacionais e migratórios promovidos pela globalização. Entre outras coisas, elas possibilitam a constituição de formas de integração de indivíduos e de grupos sociais que se voltam para a minimização dos custos de transação inerentes ao intercâmbio das experiências humanas.
Drawing on research with Brazilian in London, which combined 18-month ethnography in places of le... more Drawing on research with Brazilian in London, which combined 18-month ethnography in places of leisure with 33 in-depth interviews, this articles builds a theoretical framework, through a dialogue between feminist, post-(de)colonial and Bourdeusian studies, in order to analyse the production and negotiation of difference in a globalised world. The article argues that a dialogue between (black) feminist, post and de-colonial theory, and a more flexible and multi-varied approach of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, analytically developed in migration studies by Abdelmalek Sayad, proves to be useful to analytically address how people are constantly producing and negotiating difference in a 'world on the move'.
Neste artigo discutimos os novos reordenamentos e tendências do capital e do trabalho no que
diz ... more Neste artigo discutimos os novos reordenamentos e tendências do capital e do trabalho no que diz respeito às novas formas de organizar o capital, o trabalho, as mobilidades e o controle de ambos, as quais surgiram a partir de mudanças políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais das ultimas décadas. Argumentamos que, ao destacar as tendências e contradições da mobilidade do capital e do trabalho contemporâneo, focando nas disposições desregulatórias por um lado e regulatórias de outro, podemos evidenciar as mobilidades (e inclusões) diferenciadas e a precarização crescente da vida social contemporânea. Este artigo se baseia, empiricamente, em pesquisas realizadas com trabalhadores no Brasil e com imigrantes brasileiros na Inglaterra no âmbito do Laboratório de Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.
Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths Co... more Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths College/University of London, sobre seu recente livro Flip-Flop: a journey through globalisations 'backroads' (2014), que foi traduzido para o português e publicado pela Annablume com o título Nas trilhas de um chinelo: uma jornada pelas vias secundárias da globalização (2017).
PIRES, A. S. ; MARTINS JR, Angelo . Economia solidária: mudança social ou alternativa de trabalho?. Contemporânea Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, v. 2, p. 221-228, 2011.
MARTINS JR, Angelo ; BARBOSA, A. M. S. . AS ARTIMANHAS DA FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO NO ARRANJO PRODUTIVO DE CALÇADOS DE JAÚ.. Política e Trabalho, v. 34, p. 265-298, 2011.
BARBOSA, A. M. S. ; MARTINS JR, Angelo . Da disciplina ao controle: novos processos de subjetivação no mundo do trabalho. Política & Sociedade (Online), v. 11, p. 75-92, 2012.
Jacob Lima, Angelo Martins Jr, (2012) "Mobility among Latin American migrants: The case of Bolivians in São Paulo and Brazilians in London", Employee Relations, Vol. 34 Iss: 6, pp.594 - 612
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the impact of globalisation and productive restructuri... more The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the impact of globalisation and productive restructuring in contemporary migration flows in Latin America. It analyses two different movements to/from Latin America: Bolivians in São Paulo and Brazilians in London, seeking to highlight the precarious work conditions of migrants from the region.
The paper uses two interrelated research projects. One focuses on Bolivian workers in São Paulo. It used reference documents, and files from the local press and academic articles to map work dynamics of Bolivian migrants working in sweatshops. The other was conducted in London, where in-depth interviews and participant observations were conducted with Brazilians working in low-skilled jobs, to explore motives behind migration and settlement.
There is increasing mobility between different countries that receive immigrants with flexible proposals about constructing “new life projects”. These migrants seek to escape unfavourable living and working conditions, yet an overall perspective of flexible capitalism in its forms of production, distribution and consumption is observable. Both contexts feature precarious employment relationships, with informality, illegality and ethnic social networks being the main elements of attraction and support in host countries. Differences are located in the perspectives of return and settlement, given the different economic situations in England, Brazil and Bolivia.
MARTINS JR, Angelo . Mobilidade, consumo e trabalho: trabalhadores brasileiros em Londres. In: Jacob C. Lima. (Org.). Outras Sociologias do Trabalho: flexibilidades, emoções e mobilidades.. 1ed.São Carlos: Edufscar, 2013, v. , p. 101-129., Aug 19, 2013
MARTINS JR, Angelo ; Dias, G. T. . Imigração brasileira contemporânea: discursos e práticas de imigrantes brasileiros em Londres. Análise Social, v. 209, p. 810-832, 2013.
"Contemporary Brazilian migration: discourses and practices
of Brazilians in London. This arti... more "Contemporary Brazilian migration: discourses and practices
of Brazilians in London. This article reflects on how Brazilians in London, who moved on the migratory project of working, saving money and return, re-adapt their aims after a period
in the host society. Therefore, the text aims to understand the
limits of analysis on Brazilian immigration based on the the-
theoretical framework push-pull, which highlight economic reasons as the main points to define Brazilian migrants. Through
participant observations and interviews, it was possible to
comprehend how Brazilians once introduced new priorities
in their lives, and thus reshape their lifestyle in London, their
initial idea of working/saving money become somehow secondary"
During the COVID-19 pandemic, experts called attention to the fact that the pandemic was dispropo... more During the COVID-19 pandemic, experts called attention to the fact that the pandemic was disproportionately affecting socially vulnerable groups. Research suggested that structural inequalities resulted in unequal access to healthcare and that infection prevention measures increased precarious working conditions in illegal, informal, or unregulated sectors, such as the sex industry. This article reports on research findings that examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and working conditions of 25 women internal migrant sex workers in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. It demonstrates that the pandemic and measures to control it severely impacted the lives of internal migrant sex workers, their affective and work relationships, as well as their income, safety, and physical and mental health. Furthermore, sex workers suffered from disturbing levels of violence and precariousness as well as a lack of effective policies aimed at protecting their health and well-being. This was exacerbated by the stigma, lack of labour rights, and the fact that they were migrants, which impacted them financially and emotionally during movement restrictions.
This article draws on qualitative data on journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and t... more This article draws on qualitative data on journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and teenagers from Sub-Saharan African countries to develop a conceptual analysis of the blurriness of the lines drawn between supposedly different types of movement via referencing the conceptual binary of forced/voluntary movement (such as asylum, trafficking, smuggling). It questions the liberal model of ‘agency’ that is employed not just by state actors, but also by many antislavery, anti-trafficking, child rights, and refugee rights activists, to construct boundaries between different ‘types’ of people on the move. Conceptual divisions between refugees and economic migrants, trafficked and smuggled persons, forced and voluntary labourers, child and adult migrants, and the idea of ‘modern slavery’, deflect attention from the structures that limit the choices open to people on the move. This article argues that the voluntary/forced binary encourages a tendency to falsely conflate choice with freedom and works to preserve the illusion that human freedom is a defining feature of liberal democratic societies rather than working to universally protect the freedoms of actual living human beings.
Antislavery actors evoke the history of the transatlantic slave trade in campaigns to mobilise ac... more Antislavery actors evoke the history of the transatlantic slave trade in campaigns to mobilise action to address the suffering experienced by contemporary migrants described as ‘victims of trafficking’. That framing has been picked up by state actors who present measures to supress unauthorised migration per se as necessary to protect migrants from a ‘modern-day slave trade’. Yet the parallel between trafficking and the slave trade is undermined by the fact that people who today are described as ‘trafficked’, as much as those described as ‘smuggled’, actively wish to travel and do so in the hope that by moving, they will secure greater freedoms. This article therefore asks whether there are similarities between the journeys of contemporary unauthorised migrants and those of enslaved people who fled from slavery in the Atlantic World, and if so, why. Bringing data from historical sources on slave flight into dialogue with data on the journeys of contemporary sub-Saharan African migrants to Europe and Brazil, it identifies a number of experiential parallels, and argues that for those concerned with migrants’ rights, enslaved people’s fugitivity potentially offers a more fruitful point of historical comparison than does the slave trade.
Resumo: Neste artigo, discuto como a análise sociológica crítica e (proto)interseccional de Du Bo... more Resumo: Neste artigo, discuto como a análise sociológica crítica e (proto)interseccional de Du Bois, a qual demonstra conexões entre, e é simultaneamente crítica ao, racismo, sexismo, capitalismo e colonialismo, não apenas precedeu, mas também continua a influenciar discussões sobre gênero, "raça" e classe presentes nos debates contemporâneos da sociologia de gênero, do feminismo negro e interseccional, assim como do marxismo e da "teoria crítica da raça". A partir disso, demonstrarei como a obra de Du Bois ofereceu e continua a oferecer sérias contribuições para o conhecimento social, ajudando-nos a compreender (e a criticar) simultaneamente o racismo, sexismo e capitalismo como sistemas (interligados) de exploração, marginalização e violência. Assim farei a partir da leitura de citações diretas extraídas do trabalho de Du Bois, principalmente de obras que ainda não foram traduzidas para o português. Palavras-chave: Du Bois, interseccionalidade, "raça", classe, gênero DU BOIS' CRITICAL AND (PROTO)INTERSECTIONAL SOCIOLOGY: CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITY, MARXISM AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY Abstract: In this article, I analyse how Du Bois' critical and (proto)intersectional sociological analysis, which demonstrates connections between, and is simultaneously critical of, racism, sexism, capitalism and colonialism, not only preceded, but also continues to influence, discussions on gender, race and class in contemporary debates of sociology of gender, black and intersectional feminism, as well as Marxism and critical race theory. By doing that, I will demonstrate how Du Bois's work has offered important 1 Artigo resultado da pesquisa em andamento "Modern Marronage?: pursuit and practice of freedom in the contemporary world", financiada pelo European Research Council.
(Re)fazendo diferenças de classe em movimento A classe média brasileira em Londres , 2020
Este artigo analisa o papel da classe social (interseccionada com gênero, raça e espaço) na prod... more Este artigo analisa o papel da classe social (interseccionada com gênero, raça e espaço) na produção e negociação da diferença em um contexto de mobilidade transnacional. Para além dos debates que tomam de antemão etnia e/ou nacio-nalidade compartilhadas que resultam na consti-tuição de comunidades transnacionais unificadas e solidárias, este artigo demonstra como brasilei-ros de classe média negociam as representações estigmatizadas de classe (e racializadas) do mi grante na produção de diferenciações sociais em Londres. Diferenças de classe são produzidas na medida em que as jornadas migratórias do grupo analisado são construídas e entendidas como uma experiência cultural e de vida (cosmopolita), dis-tanciando-se assim das representações da comunidade brasileira e do migrante brasileiro, entendi-dos como o pobre/migrante-trabalhador vivendo na comunidade transnacional. Tal diferenciação ocorre a partir de uma avaliação contínua de suas vidas em Londres (aqui) em referência ao Brasil (lá). Refletir sobre o posicionamento deles aqui e lá geralmente permite com que brasileiros da clas-se média se valorizem em comparação aos seus compatriotas em Londres, num contexto político e social que estigmatiza migrantes e comunidades. Tal reflexão também produz frustração, raiva e ambivalências, uma vez que a migração frequen-temente embaralha as demarcações de classe que historicamente garantiam distinções a muitos desses brasileiros no Brasil.
Martins Junior, A., Negotiating Essentialised Cultural and Gendered Differences in a Global world: Brazilians in London. In : Século XXI, Revista de Ciências Sociais. 9, 1, p.159, 2019
In the last decades, transnational scholars have analysed the role of social ties in producing co... more In the last decades, transnational scholars have analysed the role of social ties in producing connections linking people in different places of the world within a context of intense mobility of people and goods in the so-called 'mobile era'. In discussions of ethnicity, nationality and the formation of 'ethnic com-munity' abroad, transnational studies, nevertheless, often far too easily celebrate the 'ethnic commonality' constituting ties of affi nity based on shared cultural experience. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of the transnationalist migratory experience in relation to colonial legacies and to the multiple distinctions existing among and between migrants. In this article I contribute to the discussion on transnational experience by demonstrating how Brazilians in Lon-don are constantly re-signifying and negotiating essentialised and stigmatised representations of cultural differences, intersected with gender and 'race', when speaking about and interacting with each
This article explores the effects of Brazil's recent economic growth and the narrowing of the ine... more This article explores the effects of Brazil's recent economic growth and the narrowing of the inequality gap on the second Brazilian migration wave to the UK over the last two decades. Migration-related research has emphatically argued that this ongoing international mobility results from transnational networks developed by pioneers who encouraged fellow citizens to travel. Although this paper considers social networks as an important factor shaping the movement of Brazilians abroad, we propose to debate contemporary Brazilian migration by shedding light on the national socioeconomic policies implemented since the late 1990s. Thus, through a rigorous literature review of Brazilian transnational migration studies and mul-ti-sited ethnography in Brazil and London, we focus particularly on how the opening up of the Brazilian economy to international capital flow, and the implementation of social programmes followed by the enlargement of its domestic consumer market, helps to explain the current increase and diversification of Brazilians abroad.
Social networks and social capital: possible uses and limitations as sociological categories
No ... more Social networks and social capital: possible uses and limitations as sociological categories
No cenário configurado pela globalização é disseminada e fortalecida aquela que em ciências sociais denomina-se cultura de redes. Aqui, nos refe-rimos, sobretudo, às redes de sociabilidade e de cooperação compostas pela união de agentes que se integram horizontalmente e que formulam modelos de organização pautados pela colaboração e por uma lógica de desenvolvimento integrado de sistemas socioeconômicos que possibilitam arranjos produtivos alternativos e solidários. O espraiamento e o fortalecimento dessa cultura de redes permite gestar formas mais participativas e efetivas de exercício da de-mocracia, assim como de inserção social. Nas sociedades contemporâneas as redes atuam diretamente na estruturação de novas formas de relações sociais, configurando e, ao mesmo tempo, sendo configuradas pela intensificação dos fluxos econômicos, culturais, informacionais e migratórios promovidos pela globalização. Entre outras coisas, elas possibilitam a constituição de formas de integração de indivíduos e de grupos sociais que se voltam para a minimização dos custos de transação inerentes ao intercâmbio das experiências humanas.
Drawing on research with Brazilian in London, which combined 18-month ethnography in places of le... more Drawing on research with Brazilian in London, which combined 18-month ethnography in places of leisure with 33 in-depth interviews, this articles builds a theoretical framework, through a dialogue between feminist, post-(de)colonial and Bourdeusian studies, in order to analyse the production and negotiation of difference in a globalised world. The article argues that a dialogue between (black) feminist, post and de-colonial theory, and a more flexible and multi-varied approach of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, analytically developed in migration studies by Abdelmalek Sayad, proves to be useful to analytically address how people are constantly producing and negotiating difference in a 'world on the move'.
Neste artigo discutimos os novos reordenamentos e tendências do capital e do trabalho no que
diz ... more Neste artigo discutimos os novos reordenamentos e tendências do capital e do trabalho no que diz respeito às novas formas de organizar o capital, o trabalho, as mobilidades e o controle de ambos, as quais surgiram a partir de mudanças políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais das ultimas décadas. Argumentamos que, ao destacar as tendências e contradições da mobilidade do capital e do trabalho contemporâneo, focando nas disposições desregulatórias por um lado e regulatórias de outro, podemos evidenciar as mobilidades (e inclusões) diferenciadas e a precarização crescente da vida social contemporânea. Este artigo se baseia, empiricamente, em pesquisas realizadas com trabalhadores no Brasil e com imigrantes brasileiros na Inglaterra no âmbito do Laboratório de Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.
Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths Co... more Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths College/University of London, sobre seu recente livro Flip-Flop: a journey through globalisations 'backroads' (2014), que foi traduzido para o português e publicado pela Annablume com o título Nas trilhas de um chinelo: uma jornada pelas vias secundárias da globalização (2017).
PIRES, A. S. ; MARTINS JR, Angelo . Economia solidária: mudança social ou alternativa de trabalho?. Contemporânea Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, v. 2, p. 221-228, 2011.
MARTINS JR, Angelo ; BARBOSA, A. M. S. . AS ARTIMANHAS DA FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO NO ARRANJO PRODUTIVO DE CALÇADOS DE JAÚ.. Política e Trabalho, v. 34, p. 265-298, 2011.
BARBOSA, A. M. S. ; MARTINS JR, Angelo . Da disciplina ao controle: novos processos de subjetivação no mundo do trabalho. Política & Sociedade (Online), v. 11, p. 75-92, 2012.
Jacob Lima, Angelo Martins Jr, (2012) "Mobility among Latin American migrants: The case of Bolivians in São Paulo and Brazilians in London", Employee Relations, Vol. 34 Iss: 6, pp.594 - 612
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the impact of globalisation and productive restructuri... more The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the impact of globalisation and productive restructuring in contemporary migration flows in Latin America. It analyses two different movements to/from Latin America: Bolivians in São Paulo and Brazilians in London, seeking to highlight the precarious work conditions of migrants from the region.
The paper uses two interrelated research projects. One focuses on Bolivian workers in São Paulo. It used reference documents, and files from the local press and academic articles to map work dynamics of Bolivian migrants working in sweatshops. The other was conducted in London, where in-depth interviews and participant observations were conducted with Brazilians working in low-skilled jobs, to explore motives behind migration and settlement.
There is increasing mobility between different countries that receive immigrants with flexible proposals about constructing “new life projects”. These migrants seek to escape unfavourable living and working conditions, yet an overall perspective of flexible capitalism in its forms of production, distribution and consumption is observable. Both contexts feature precarious employment relationships, with informality, illegality and ethnic social networks being the main elements of attraction and support in host countries. Differences are located in the perspectives of return and settlement, given the different economic situations in England, Brazil and Bolivia.
MARTINS JR, Angelo . Mobilidade, consumo e trabalho: trabalhadores brasileiros em Londres. In: Jacob C. Lima. (Org.). Outras Sociologias do Trabalho: flexibilidades, emoções e mobilidades.. 1ed.São Carlos: Edufscar, 2013, v. , p. 101-129., Aug 19, 2013
MARTINS JR, Angelo ; Dias, G. T. . Imigração brasileira contemporânea: discursos e práticas de imigrantes brasileiros em Londres. Análise Social, v. 209, p. 810-832, 2013.
"Contemporary Brazilian migration: discourses and practices
of Brazilians in London. This arti... more "Contemporary Brazilian migration: discourses and practices
of Brazilians in London. This article reflects on how Brazilians in London, who moved on the migratory project of working, saving money and return, re-adapt their aims after a period
in the host society. Therefore, the text aims to understand the
limits of analysis on Brazilian immigration based on the the-
theoretical framework push-pull, which highlight economic reasons as the main points to define Brazilian migrants. Through
participant observations and interviews, it was possible to
comprehend how Brazilians once introduced new priorities
in their lives, and thus reshape their lifestyle in London, their
initial idea of working/saving money become somehow secondary"
Special Issue: ‘Social State: Between austerity policies and the process of individual accountabi... more Special Issue: ‘Social State: Between austerity policies and the process of individual accountability’. NORUS – Academic journal of the department of Sociology at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil
Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality tr... more Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their ‘mobile lives’. Analysing the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilians in London, it adds an in-depth ethnographic understanding of the specific contours of difference to studies of migration by demonstrating how social differences, rooted in colonial legacies, are constantly being re-created and negotiated in the everyday making of the global world.
By using ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, in addition to historical and contextual analyses, the book allows us to understand how people speak of, engage with and negotiate difference in their everyday lives and how this is shaped by the macro-political and -social contexts of immigration and emigration.
Giving attention to the complex interrelations between ‘here’ and ‘there’, past and present, this book allows us to go beyond the proliferated homogenised stereotypes of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the migrant community’ often reproduced by academics as well as by the media and politicians, whether with a view to pathologising or romanticising the ‘migrant other’. This title will appeal to students, scholars, community workers and general readers interested in migration, social class, gender, ‘race’ and ethnicity, colonialism and slavery, social exclusion, globalisation and urban sociology.
Martins examines the journeys of people on the move with individual stories which would otherwise remain invisible or obscure. The book written in direct documentary style challenges several theories on migration. Aided by the incisive eye of the camera, a series of interviews present first hand experiences of immigrants in London's everyday life and the survival tactics employed by competitive but, ultimately, vulnerable people.
This article offers reflections on the process of researchingtransnational migration, and particu... more This article offers reflections on the process of researchingtransnational migration, and particularly the fieldworkchallenges and difficulties that can emerge when studyingco-nationals abroad. Based on two distinct research projectson transnational migration (one on Brazilians in Londonand the other on Britons in Beijing), which used similarmethodological tools and faced similar challenges, we arguethatcombining a mobile ethnographic methodologicaltool (documenting journeys) with in-depth biographicalinterviews and historical and contextual analyses, makes ourdata open to analyse migration as a translocal process at thesame time that provides a connection between both macroand micro scales of analysis. Our methodological tools allowedus to understand how people speak of, engage with andnegotiate mobile experiences in their everyday lives, in themacro political and social structures organising immigrationand emigration.We conclude by reflecting on the challengesof researching co-nat...
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Articles by Angelo Martins Junior
No cenário configurado pela globalização é disseminada e fortalecida aquela que em ciências sociais denomina-se cultura de redes. Aqui, nos refe-rimos, sobretudo, às redes de sociabilidade e de cooperação compostas pela união de agentes que se integram horizontalmente e que formulam modelos de organização pautados pela colaboração e por uma lógica de desenvolvimento integrado de sistemas socioeconômicos que possibilitam arranjos produtivos alternativos e solidários. O espraiamento e o fortalecimento dessa cultura de redes permite gestar formas mais participativas e efetivas de exercício da de-mocracia, assim como de inserção social. Nas sociedades contemporâneas as redes atuam diretamente na estruturação de novas formas de relações sociais, configurando e, ao mesmo tempo, sendo configuradas pela intensificação dos fluxos econômicos, culturais, informacionais e migratórios promovidos pela globalização. Entre outras coisas, elas possibilitam a constituição de formas de integração de indivíduos e de grupos sociais que se voltam para a minimização dos custos de transação inerentes ao intercâmbio das experiências humanas.
diz respeito às novas formas de organizar o capital, o trabalho, as mobilidades e o controle de
ambos, as quais surgiram a partir de mudanças políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais das ultimas
décadas. Argumentamos que, ao destacar as tendências e contradições da mobilidade do capital e
do trabalho contemporâneo, focando nas disposições desregulatórias por um lado e regulatórias
de outro, podemos evidenciar as mobilidades (e inclusões) diferenciadas e a precarização crescente
da vida social contemporânea. Este artigo se baseia, empiricamente, em pesquisas realizadas com
trabalhadores no Brasil e com imigrantes brasileiros na Inglaterra no âmbito do Laboratório de
Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.
The paper uses two interrelated research projects. One focuses on Bolivian workers in São Paulo. It used reference documents, and files from the local press and academic articles to map work dynamics of Bolivian migrants working in sweatshops. The other was conducted in London, where in-depth interviews and participant observations were conducted with Brazilians working in low-skilled jobs, to explore motives behind migration and settlement.
There is increasing mobility between different countries that receive immigrants with flexible proposals about constructing “new life projects”. These migrants seek to escape unfavourable living and working conditions, yet an overall perspective of flexible capitalism in its forms of production, distribution and consumption is observable. Both contexts feature precarious employment relationships, with informality, illegality and ethnic social networks being the main elements of attraction and support in host countries. Differences are located in the perspectives of return and settlement, given the different economic situations in England, Brazil and Bolivia.
of Brazilians in London. This article reflects on how Brazilians in London, who moved on the migratory project of working, saving money and return, re-adapt their aims after a period
in the host society. Therefore, the text aims to understand the
limits of analysis on Brazilian immigration based on the the-
theoretical framework push-pull, which highlight economic reasons as the main points to define Brazilian migrants. Through
participant observations and interviews, it was possible to
comprehend how Brazilians once introduced new priorities
in their lives, and thus reshape their lifestyle in London, their
initial idea of working/saving money become somehow secondary"
No cenário configurado pela globalização é disseminada e fortalecida aquela que em ciências sociais denomina-se cultura de redes. Aqui, nos refe-rimos, sobretudo, às redes de sociabilidade e de cooperação compostas pela união de agentes que se integram horizontalmente e que formulam modelos de organização pautados pela colaboração e por uma lógica de desenvolvimento integrado de sistemas socioeconômicos que possibilitam arranjos produtivos alternativos e solidários. O espraiamento e o fortalecimento dessa cultura de redes permite gestar formas mais participativas e efetivas de exercício da de-mocracia, assim como de inserção social. Nas sociedades contemporâneas as redes atuam diretamente na estruturação de novas formas de relações sociais, configurando e, ao mesmo tempo, sendo configuradas pela intensificação dos fluxos econômicos, culturais, informacionais e migratórios promovidos pela globalização. Entre outras coisas, elas possibilitam a constituição de formas de integração de indivíduos e de grupos sociais que se voltam para a minimização dos custos de transação inerentes ao intercâmbio das experiências humanas.
diz respeito às novas formas de organizar o capital, o trabalho, as mobilidades e o controle de
ambos, as quais surgiram a partir de mudanças políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais das ultimas
décadas. Argumentamos que, ao destacar as tendências e contradições da mobilidade do capital e
do trabalho contemporâneo, focando nas disposições desregulatórias por um lado e regulatórias
de outro, podemos evidenciar as mobilidades (e inclusões) diferenciadas e a precarização crescente
da vida social contemporânea. Este artigo se baseia, empiricamente, em pesquisas realizadas com
trabalhadores no Brasil e com imigrantes brasileiros na Inglaterra no âmbito do Laboratório de
Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.
The paper uses two interrelated research projects. One focuses on Bolivian workers in São Paulo. It used reference documents, and files from the local press and academic articles to map work dynamics of Bolivian migrants working in sweatshops. The other was conducted in London, where in-depth interviews and participant observations were conducted with Brazilians working in low-skilled jobs, to explore motives behind migration and settlement.
There is increasing mobility between different countries that receive immigrants with flexible proposals about constructing “new life projects”. These migrants seek to escape unfavourable living and working conditions, yet an overall perspective of flexible capitalism in its forms of production, distribution and consumption is observable. Both contexts feature precarious employment relationships, with informality, illegality and ethnic social networks being the main elements of attraction and support in host countries. Differences are located in the perspectives of return and settlement, given the different economic situations in England, Brazil and Bolivia.
of Brazilians in London. This article reflects on how Brazilians in London, who moved on the migratory project of working, saving money and return, re-adapt their aims after a period
in the host society. Therefore, the text aims to understand the
limits of analysis on Brazilian immigration based on the the-
theoretical framework push-pull, which highlight economic reasons as the main points to define Brazilian migrants. Through
participant observations and interviews, it was possible to
comprehend how Brazilians once introduced new priorities
in their lives, and thus reshape their lifestyle in London, their
initial idea of working/saving money become somehow secondary"
By using ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, in addition to historical and contextual analyses, the book allows us to understand how people speak of, engage with and negotiate difference in their everyday lives and how this is shaped by the macro-political and -social contexts of immigration and emigration.
Giving attention to the complex interrelations between ‘here’ and ‘there’, past and present, this book allows us to go beyond the proliferated homogenised stereotypes of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the migrant community’ often reproduced by academics as well as by the media and politicians, whether with a view to pathologising or romanticising the ‘migrant other’. This title will appeal to students, scholars, community workers and general readers interested in migration, social class, gender, ‘race’ and ethnicity, colonialism and slavery, social exclusion, globalisation and urban sociology.
Martins examines the journeys of people on the move with individual stories which would otherwise remain invisible or obscure. The book written in direct documentary style challenges several theories on migration. Aided by the incisive eye of the camera, a series of interviews present first hand experiences of immigrants in London's everyday life and the survival tactics employed by competitive but, ultimately, vulnerable people.