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Imperial Migrations

Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World

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Editors:
  1. Eric Morier-Genoud

    1. Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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  2. Michel Cahen

    1. CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France

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Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?

    1. Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?

      • Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen
      Pages 1-28

  3. Longue-Durée Migrations in and around the Portuguese Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. ‘Portuguese’ Diasporas: A Survey of the Scholarly Literature

      • Edward A. Alpers, Molly Ball
      Pages 31-71

    3. Africans in Portuguese Society: Classification Ambiguities and Colonial Realities

      • Isabel Castro Henriques
      Pages 72-103

  4. Colonial Migrations in the Third Portuguese Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Colonial Migration to Angola and Mozambique: Constraints and Illusions

      • Cláudia Castelo
      Pages 107-128

    3. Imperial Actors? Cape Verdean Mentality in the Portuguese Empire under the Estado Novo, 1926–1974

      • Alexander Keese
      Pages 129-148

    4. Unlike the Other Whites? The Swiss in Mozambique under Colonialism

      • Sérgio Inácio Chichava
      Pages 149-167

    5. The Ismailis of Mozambique: History of a Twofold Migration (late 19th century-1975)

      • Nicole Khouri, Joana Pereira Leite
      Pages 168-189

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 327-351
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About this book

This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

Reviews

“This is an extremely well-conceived, well-edited volume, shedding salutary light on a whole range of subjects related to diaspora and migration. It will be of great interest to those working on history, cultural studies, and politics.” (Gabriel Paquette, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 52 (2), December, 2015)

"The role of the empire in building the grandeur of the Portuguese destiny has, as Imperial Migrations shows so excellently, obscured the multiple agencies involved in imperial constructions. Decentring empires involves acknowledging diasporas, and in so doing acknowledging the multiplicities inherent in the project of modernity, both in the past and in the present." - Toby Green, Africa, 84(4)

"This book provides a wide panorama [...] aim in 330 pages of the migrations within the spaces colonized by Portugal

and/or those of the people subjected to Portuguese colonization. [...] it allows us to draw interesting comparisons with

other imperial situations. Thus it contributes, by including the spaces colonized by Portugal, to current debates within the field of imperial studies, connected history, and global history." - Victor Pereira, African Affairs, 144(456)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University Belfast, UK

    Eric Morier-Genoud

  • CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France

    Michel Cahen

About the editors

EDWARD A. ALPERS Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA MOLLY BALL Graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA CLÁUDIA CASTELO Researcher at the Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon, Portugal SÉRGIO INÁCIO CHICHAVA Researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), Mozambique JOHN DARWIN Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at University of Oxford, UK MARGRET FRENZ Lecturer in Global History at the University of Leicester, UK CLIVE GLASER Lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa ISABEL CASTRO HENRIQUES Professor of African and Colonial History at the University of Lisbon, Portugal ALEXANDER KEESE Research Group Director at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany NICOLE KHOURI Assistant Professor (Maitre de conférences) at the Institut du développement économique et social (IEDES), Université de Paris 1, France JOANA PEREIRA LEITE Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal LORENZO MACAGNO Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil ABDOOLKARIM VAKIL Lecturer in the Departments of History and of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King's College London, UK ROSA WILLIAMS PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago, USA

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