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Generational Shifts in Angolan Students Migrations to Portugal: “Grant Students”, “Inheritors” and “New Students”
Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola
Tropical Research Institute IICT, Lisbon, Portugal
- 1 Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola
- 2 Tropical Research Institute IICT, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Education·Volume 05 (2014)·Pages 1512–1522·Published 10 September 2014·DOI10.4236/ce.2014.516168
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Abstract
The heavy legacy left by colonialism, regarding the formation of Angolan non-white populations conditioned its access to higher education in the period after independence. So, many students who entered higher education were rescued from various social contexts. Most of them came from families with very weak connection to the school. However, there were, at the time, some families educated above average, which did no more than reproducing this situation by passing it to new generations. In this paper, it is to compare these “heirs” with the “new students” and how they built their school careers, and how they were articulating with the different contexts of changed Angolan society itself.
KeywordsHigher EducationAngolaGrant StudentsInheritorsNew Students
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