ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the integration of the recent Portuguese migrants in the former colonies of Angola and Mozambique. It focuses on imaginaries of the relationship between the ex-colonizer and the ex-colonized in the capitals of Luanda and Maputo, and on how these imaginaries vary between these two cities. The chapter argues that these differences have multiple roots, such as variations in the character of colonial settlement, as well as in post-independence economic development and class stratification. The discussion of how migrants and locals relate to each other centres on the concepts of hybridity and hegemony. The chapter presents the integration of the Portuguese migrants as an open process that sometimes results in them occupying professional and social positions of superiority and domination. This contradicts current notions in Europe, where integration typically is constructed as a process wherein subordinate others are expected to adapt to a dominant national social order.
