Kesha Fikes, Managing African Portugal

Managing African Portugal by US anthropologist Kesha Fikes is an ethnographic account of how Portugal’s mid-1990s economic and social integration into the European Union (EU) fundamentally changed everyday encounters between Portuguese citizens and African immigrants. Fikes’ book is a thoughtful assessment of how colonial ­legacies impact contemporary social relations in an EU context and is a poignant critique of how government-sponsored “multiculturalist” programs can increase the marginali...