Team > Dr Asaf Augusto


Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Politische Geographie
Abschlüsse
2004 – 2006 | BTh. North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus. |
2007 | BH HONS. North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus (with commendation). |
2008 – 2010 | MA. Church History and Systematic Theology. “The impact of persecution (1950-1974) upon the Igreja Evangelical Congregational in Angola – A Church-Historical Study.” North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus (with commendation). |
2010 – 2012 | MA. International Conflict Management. “The Impact of the Angolan Political History on the Social Division among the Angolan Community in Bavaria – A case study.” Alice Salomon University of Applied sciences Berlin (with 1.7 “good” in the German system). |
Werdegang
2000 – 2002 | Vollzeitstelle bei einer NGO in Angola und Südafrika. |
2005 – 2007 | Freiwilligen Arbeit bei der NGO "Africa Renewal" in Südafrika. |
2003 – 2010 | Vollzeitstudent an der North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus. |
2010 – 2012 | Vollzeitstudent, Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule, Berlin. |
2013 | Doktorand, Swansea University. |
2015 | Doktorand (transfer), Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies |
Dissertationsprojekt
The economic crisis which particularly affected the southern tier of EU countries since 2008 set in motion various new migration trends, some of which echoed past migratory routes. In the case of Portugal, post-crisis migrations have been in two directions: northwards to more prosperous European countries, and southwards to former colonies in Africa, notably the oil-producing state of Angola. This dissertation seeks to respond the following questions:
- How can recent Portuguese migration to Angola be “explained”?
- What are the distinctive characteristics of this new migration flows?
- Sub- questions
- What theoretical perspectives help to understand Portuguese migration to Angola?
- What are the details and dynamics at play in this migration (Historical, political, economic, cultural, economic, institution, spatial- temporal etc?
- What is the relationship between the realities of Portuguese employment in Angola and discourses and myths about Portuguese and Angolans?
- Does being a Portuguese migrant in Angola have an advantage for employment?
- What is the role of skill in this migration? How are skill and unskilled Portuguese able to obtain employment in Angola labour market?
- How are Angolan nationals responding to the presence of Portuguese migrants in Angola?
Vorträge und Lehre
- Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) 13th February 2014 -Presented
- University of Oxford 21st-22nd February 2014- Participate
- Gregynog Postgraduate Conference 26th February 2014- Presented
- Lisbon 12th -14th March 2014-Contributed

Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Politische Geographie
Publikationen
2020
Augusto, Asaf; King, Russell
"Skilled white bodies" : Portuguese workers in Angola as a case of NorthâSouth migration
In: The Geographical Journal Bd. 186 (2020) Heft 1. - S. 116-127
doi:10.1111/geoj.12334 ...

Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Politische Geographie
Dr Asaf Augusto
E-Mail: asafaugusto@gmail.com