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Title Imperial migrations : colonial communities and diaspora in the Portuguese world / edited by Eric Morier-Genoud and Michel Cahen
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations
Series Migration, diasporas and citizenship
Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Contents Introduction: Portugal, empire, and migrations -- was there ever an autonomous social imperial space? / Eric Morier-Genoud and Michel Cahen -- 'Portuguese' diasporas: a survey of the scholarly literature / Edward A. Alpers with Molly Ball -- Africans in Portuguese society: classification ambiguities and colonial realities / Isabel Castro Henriques -- Colonial migration to Angola and Mozambique: constraints and illusions / Cláudia Castelo -- Imperial actors? Cape Verdean mentality in the Portuguese empire under the Estado Novo, 1926-1974 / Alexander Keese -- Unlike the other whites? The Swiss in Mozambique under colonialism / Sérgo Inácio Chicava -- The Ismailis of Mozambique: history of a twofold migration (late 19th century-1975) / Nicole Khouri and Joana Pereira Leite -- Representing the Portuguese empire: Goan Consuls in British East Africa, c. 1910-1963 / Margaret Frenz -- The making of a Portuguese community in South Africa, 1900-1994 / Clive Glaser -- From Mozambique to Brazil: the 'good Portuguese' of the Chinese athletic club / Lorenzo Macagno -- Luso-African intimacies: conceptions of national and transnational community / Rosa Williams -- Mundo Pretuguês: colonial and postcolonial diasporic dis/articulations / AbdoolKarim Vakil -- 'Portual is in the sky': conceptual considerations on communities, lusitanity, and lusophony / Michel Cahen -- Conclusion: decolonization and diaspora/ John Darwin
Summary This volume explores the role and history of migration and diaspora within the Portuguese empire, investigating what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage. The book consists of twelve case studies which look at 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Colonialism & imperialism -- Portugal.
Migration, immigration & emigration -- Portugal.
Globalization -- Portugal.
Hispanic & Latino studies -- Portugal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
History.
Emigration and immigration
Portuguese colonies
Colonialism & imperialism -- Portugal.
Migration, immigration & emigration -- Portugal.
Globalization -- Portugal.
Ethnic studies -- Portugal.
History.
SUBJECT Portugal -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Portugal -- Colonies -- History
Subject Portugal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Morier-Genoud, Éric, editor
Cahen, Michel, editor
ISBN 9781137265005
1137265000