Date  8 de setembro de 2023
Duration  03:24:23
Location  Medieval village of Ourém and Zoom
Organization  Ourém municipality in partnership with the Emigration Observatory

This seminar, held with the aim of addressing the current panorama of Portuguese emigration, as well as questioning and reflecting on the cultural exchanges and identity representations built on migratory trajectories, featured six papers divided into three panels. Here you can watch the opening session, which was attended by the Mayor of Ourém, Luís Miguel Albuquerque, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Francisco André, Mário Ribeiro, representing the High Commission for Migration, and Cláudia Pereira, executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory. You can also attend the first and second panels of the seminar “Current and historical emigration”, which featured the presentation of the study Characterisation of Portuguese emigration in the 21st century, by Carlota Moura Veiga and Inês Vidigal, and The Salazar dictatorship and emigration. The Portuguese state and its emigrants in France (1957-1974), by Victor Pereira, moderated by Cláudia Pereira, and “Effects on places of origin: emigrants' homes”, which included the presentation of the study (Post)rural houses between 1900 and 2015: architectural expressions and identity trajectories, by Ana Saraiva, and From the Place of the House to the House as Place. The house of the Portuguese-Brazilian emigrant in the valorisation of architecture and urban space, by António Afonso de Deus, moderated by Carlota Moura Veiga.

Sobre os oradores

Ana Saraiva is a researcher at the Anthropology Research Network Centre. Since 2001, she has been an anthropologist in the municipality of Ourém, currently heading up the Cultural Action Division. She programmes and directs the Ourém Municipal Museum. She takes part in research and programming projects centred on anthropology and museology, and has published on discourses of cultural representation. In 2017, her doctoral thesis, (Post)rural houses between 1900 and 2015: architectural expressions and identity trajectories, was published as a book.

António Afonso de Deus graduated in architecture in 1994. He holds a master's degree in architectural restoration from the Higher Technical School of Architecture in A Coruña (1999), and a master's degree in architecture from the Lusófona University in Porto (2011). He has co-authored a book and a chapter in another. He is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University of Porto, on the integrated master's programme in architecture, where he is teaching secretary, and on the undergraduate programmes in civil engineering and environmental engineering. His professional activity focuses on the restoration of buildings. He worked as a senior technician in the Municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis, in the Tourism and Crafts Office, intervening in the area of built heritage (2005-2011). He was a member of the panel of consultants for the application of the Monastery of St Michael of Refojos, in Cabeceiras de Basto, to become a World Heritage Site (2015-2017). He is currently pursuing research in the area of design and territory, with work applied to colonial occupation in Angola (work in progress).

Carlota Moura Veiga has a degree and a master's degree in political science from Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Since 2017, she has been a research assistant at the Emigration Observatory, where she is responsible for communication and dissemination and editorial coordinator of the periodical OEm Conversations With. She is currently involved in the project “Comparative study of public policies for the diaspora”, funded by the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, and in Iscte's Transversal Skills Laboratory, where she teaches. She is co-author of the statistical yearbook Emigração Portuguesa. Statistical Report, and the scientific articles “Emigration and politics: analysis of electoral programmes and legislative initiatives, 2011 to 2019” (2022), ”Do students with immigrant and native parents perceive themselves as equally engaged in school during adolescence?” (2021) and “Portuguese emigration in the 21st century”. For a year and a half, she worked at the Portuguese Embassy in Bern, where she deepened her knowledge of migration by working directly with the Portuguese community, and did a curricular internship at the Social Security and Labour Commission, which later led to her master's dissertation ”The state and the family: family support policies and familism as factors in the sustainability of the Portuguese welfare state”. 

Inês Vidigal has a degree in geography from FLUL, a master's degree in European policies from IGOT-UL and is a PhD candidate in sociology at Iscte-IUL. Since 2014, she has been a research assistant at the Emigration Observatory, where she is responsible for the statistical data on the website and its communication to the general public.  She is the editorial coordinator of the periodicals, OEm Fact Sheets and Portuguese Emigration Factbook. She is the co-author of several publications on emigration, including the statistical yearbook Emigração Portuguesa. Statistical Report. She has participated in research projects on migration at IGOT-UL and ISCTE-IUL. She worked at Pordata – Database of Contemporary Portugal for three years, where she disseminated statistical information on social and economic indicators in open access for civil society.

Victor Pereira holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (2007). An assistant professor at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour between 2010 and 2021, he is currently a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals (Lusotopie, Histoire@politique, Análise social, Exils et migrations ibériques au XXème siècle). Together with Nuno Domingos, he co-ordinated the book O Estado Novo em questão (Edições 70, 2010) and published A ditadura de Salazar e a emigração. O Estado português e os migrantes em França (1957-1974) (Temas e Debates, 2014). He has collaborated with the Musée National de l'histoire de l'Immigration (Paris) and participated in the development of exhibitions (Refuser la guerre coloniale, Paris, 2019, 1940: l'exil pour la vie, Bordeaux, 2020-2021).

Sobre as moderadoras

Cláudia Pereira has a PhD in anthropology and a post-doctorate in sociology. She is an assistant researcher and professor at ISCTE, part of the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She previously took part in the Erasmus programme during her degree at the Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands and was a Visiting Scholar during her PhD at Brown University in the USA. She is the executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory, where, among other activities, she is responsible for the Statistical Report on Portuguese Emigration, produced annually for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was Secretary of State for Integration and Migration in the 22nd Constitutional Government. In this role, with her team and in co-operation with other government departments and public institutes, she removed obstacles in Portuguese language learning courses, having created the Ordinance for the Portuguese Language of Reception courses. For the first time, foreigners and asylum seekers waiting for their regularisation to be finalised were able to learn Portuguese. Created the Integrar Valoriza Network, with more than 50 municipalities, to strengthen coordination between the public administration and local councils in integration policies. It stimulated networking in government and public administration for the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. Similarly, it contributed to the Citizen Card Law for People with No Fixed Address in Portugal, for homeless and nomadic Portuguese gypsies, which speeded up access to health care, housing, training and employment, in other words, equal opportunities. In the area of refugees, he implemented the Single Operational Group, which began to ensure co-operation and co-ordination between the various state actors. Together with his team, he coordinated the task force for the emergency reception of people from Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Carlota Moura Veiga has a degree and a master's degree in political science from Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Since 2017, she has been a research assistant at the Emigration Observatory, where she is responsible for communication and dissemination and editorial coordinator of the periodical OEm Conversations With. She is currently involved in the project “Comparative study of public policies for the diaspora”, funded by the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, and in Iscte's Transversal Skills Laboratory, where she teaches. She is co-author of the statistical yearbook Emigração Portuguesa. Statistical Report, and the scientific articles “Emigration and politics: analysis of electoral programmes and legislative initiatives, 2011 to 2019” (2022), ”Do students with immigrant and native parents perceive themselves as equally engaged in school during adolescence?” (2021) and “Portuguese emigration in the 21st century”. For a year and a half, she worked at the Portuguese Embassy in Bern, where she deepened her knowledge of migration by working directly with the Portuguese community, and did a curricular internship at the Social Security and Labour Commission, which later led to her master's dissertation ”The state and the family: family support policies and familism as factors in the sustainability of the Portuguese welfare state”.