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Portuguese migration to Angola and Angolan migration to Portugal
Asaf Augusto
Lecture by Asaf Augusto, researcher at the University of Bayreuth, where the Portuguese migration to Angola and the Angolan migration to Portugal are analyzed, organized by the Emigration Observatory, held on September 26, 2022, in online format.

Date  September 26th 2022
Duration  29:37
Location  Zoom
Organization  Emigration Observatory

 

In this lecture given by Asaf Augusto, the migratory movement from Portugal to Angola and from Angola to Portugal is analyzed from a South-North migration perspective. Concepts such as Luso-tropicalism and coloniality are also addressed.

 

About the speaker

Asaf Augusto holds an MA in systematic and historical theology from North West University-Potchefstroom, South Africa, and a PhD in human geography, specializing in immigration studies, from Bayreuth University. He is currently doing post-doctoral work comparing Portuguese emigration to Angola since the 2008 economic crisis with Angolan immigration to Portugal since the 2014-2015 oil crisis. Her work has focused primarily on the dynamics of migration from North to South and the intersection of past and present.

 

About the moderator

Sofia Gaspar is a professor at Iscte and a researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and, in recent years, has coordinated several projects on binational couples, transnational families and Chinese immigrants in Portugal. She is a member of the Coordinating Team of the Thematic Section Migrations, Ethnicity and Racism of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS), and co-organizer of the bimonthly events Encontros de Estudos sobre China and Seminar Diversidade Cultural em Famílias Contemporâneas, both held at Cies-Iscte. Her current research interests focus, among others, on privileged migrations, investment mobility, social integration of the descendents of immigrants, especially the Chinese community in Portugal and Europe.

 

[By Asaf Augusto]

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