Title   O auxílio à emigração irregular para França e a figura do intermediário no interior rural português (1957-1974)
          Assistance for irregular emigration to France and the role of the intermediary in rural Portugal (1957-1974) (EN)
Author  Marta Nunes Silva
Advisor  José Manuel Viegas Neves and Victor César Pereira da Silva
Year  2022
Institution  Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH-UNL)
Degree  PhD
Area  History, specialization in Contemporary History
Keywords  Human smugglers, Irregular migration, Rural area, History, Emigration
URI http://hdl.handle.net/10362/142947

Abstract

This dissertation aims to do a social history of the portuguese human smuggling, in the countryside between the districts of Viseu and Guarda, during the dictatorship, when there was an irregular and massive migration towards France (1957-1974). This work aims to know the figure of the smuggler in its historical density. Recovering this figure from historical silence - provoked by negative discourses about this illegalized activity, the scarcity of written sources produced by the smugglers themselves, and the secrecy of the clandestine practices - allows us to: discuss the dynamics and rural social relations in which it was embedded; to debate the relationships between the “central power” and the “peripheral powers” of the State and the various interests involved in emigration. It also allows us to discuss the exercise of police repression during the last twenty years of the dictatorship.