Title   Os descendentes de emigrantes portugueses em França : o reencontro com as suas raízes (Original)
          Descendants of Portuguese emigrants in France: reconnecting with their roots (EN)
Author  Mireille Helno Torrado
Advisor  Rosana Albuquerque
Year  2012
Institution  Open University (Universidade Aberta)
Degree  Masters
Area  Intercultural Relations
Keywords  Emigration, France, French language, Immigration, Luso-descendants, Portuguese language, 2nd generation, Sociology of migrations, Return
URI http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2144

Abstract

From the fifties of the twentieth century some countries of Northern Europe, in frank expansion, chose to open their borders and let in some workforce that would, over the years, contribute to the development of those countries. So, many Portuguese people decided to migrate, searching for a better lifestyle and a job that could allow them to perform many of their dreams and ambitions. For many of those Portuguese, For many of the Portuguese, the host country was France. There, many children were eventually born and would be called children of immigrants, second generation, French-Portuguese and more recently Luso-descendants. For many, the project of eventually returning to Portugal ended up delayed or, in some cases, discarded. This work focused on the children of Portuguese emigrants living in France who, despite being fully adjusted into the host society of their parents chose, at some point, to come to Portugal, even if their parents remained in France. So we tried to find out the reasons that led some of the Luso-descendants from France to migrate to Portugal, even if they were aware that their parents would prefer to stay in France. There are many studies that have analysed the lives of Luso-descendants after their “return” to Portugal along with their parents, but there are still few studies about Lusodescendants who migrate voluntarily to Portugal without their families.