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The return from Africa: illegitimacy, concealment, and the non-memory of Portugal’s imperial collapse
Publication . Peralta, Elsa
Decolonization resulted in more than half a million Portuguese settlers giving up their life in Africa. Most of them headed to Portugal, where they were called retornados (returnees). As living reminders of an illegitimate history, they do not fit into the dominant post-imperial historical narratives in Portugal and have until recently been invisible within the public arena. This article explores the memorial vacuum left by the collapse of the Portuguese empire and the return, while also addressing the present-day resurgence of retornados’ memories in Portuguese society. For these purposes, the article is based on the concept of non- memory, a concept which relates to gaps in the social memory that arise from the concealment of certain problematic historical events regarded as illegitimate or shameful for the myths and ideologies of national consciousness. Although it focuses on the Portuguese case, this article is placed in the wider context of the memorial place of the end of the empire in postcolonial Europe.
Portuguese (Post-)Imperial Migrations: Race, Citizenship, and Labour
Publication . Peralta, Elsa; Delaunay, Morgane; Góis, Bruno
This article examines the connected histories of (post)colonial migration and labour
within the scope of the Portuguese empire and its aftermath. Presenting a long-term
analysis, ranging from the abolition of slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century
until today’s debates over the Portuguese nationality law, it focuses on the many
continuities between the colonial past and the postcolonial present, in particular
with respect to citizenship rights and the racialised boundaries of the Portuguese
national community. Through its focus on the less well-known case of Portugal, the
article highlights the processes of ethno-homogenisation and the related exclusions
woven by Western European (post-)imperial nation states, which, until this day, fail to
recognise full citizenship rights for millions of racialised people living within Europe’s
borders.
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IF/01530/2014/CP1218/CT0003