Another Transocean Traffic: The emigration of engaged workers from the Portuguese possessions of Macao and Mozambique in the nineteenth century world economy

• Grant number: 18/00615-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: June 01, 2018 - November 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Cesar Goncalves
• Grantee: Paulo Cesar Goncalves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research proposes to study the emigration of Chinese by the port of Macao and Africans of Mozambique from the mid-nineteenth century to the tropical plantation areas as a complementation or substitution of slave labor, in the perspective of the transoceanic trade of indentured labor. The engagement of these workers was directly related to the intensification of demand for low-cost labor in the commodity producing regions under the aegis of world trade growth. The central hypothesis considers that the two possessions corresponded to a specific part of the Portuguese empire that inserted itself peripherally, fulfilling function within the international division of labor in the capitalist world economy as supplier of work force. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PAULO CESAR GONÇALVES. Operários chineses em Moçambique. O engajamento de trabalhadores sob contrato no Império português (1857-1859). Revista Brasileira de História, v. 42, n. 87, p. 305-329, 2021-07-02. (18/00615-9)