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Graça Índias Cordeiro

Graça Índias Cordeiro is Professor at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and a researcher at CIES-Iscte. With extensive experience in teaching and research in urban anthropology and ethnography, Lisbon has been one of her primary fieldsites, and more recently the Boston area, where she has examined the local meanings and transformations of the label “Portuguese.” She is currently engaged in collaborative research with Giuseppe Formato on the Azorean diaspora in New England and is a member of the project EXPORT – Exporting Portugal: Estado Novo Cultural Diplomacy and Rebranding Strategies in the United States, 1933–1974 (ICS/FCT, 2025–27).

Interview conducted in Lisbon on 5 December 2025 by Liliana Azevedo*,
revised for publication in February 2026.
Also available online here.

Series OEm Conversations With
Number 38
Date march 2026
Pages 22
ISSN  2183-718X (online)
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMCW382026
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Keywords  Azorean diaspora, identity and ethnicity, Portuguese-speaking label, collaborative ethnography, transatlantic migration, gentrification and urban memory.
Cite as  Azevedo, Liliana (2026), “As cidades são feitas de migrações: entrevista com Graça Índias Cordeiro”, OEm Conversations With, 38, Observatório da Emigração, CIES, Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMCW382026

* Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

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