A reflection day about emigration public policies organised by the IHC and the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa.

The Diaspora Policies: Reflection Day

In the beginning of September 2017, the Council of Europe presented a parliamentary network in order to stimulate the debate about policies of Diasporas between 47 Member-States of the Council.The aim is to promote a concerted and an adequate answer to the situation of the current migration, in the name of the interdependency and of the solidarity between the North and the South.

In this event, Portugal was considered as one of countries that most promotes integration with its immigration policies of settlement and integration and its relationship with the Portuguese communities.

Besides, it was underlined the importance of the understanding of the past for the definition of national and international policies in a globalized world, and the necessity to cooperate between sending and settlement countries. Thanks to its historical tradition on migration and its special relationships with Portuguese communities in the world, Portugal and its Diaspora should be considered as a privileged starting point for a scientific debate about its policies linked to the Portuguese communities.

For these reasons, it is suggested a day of reflection about public policies linked to Portuguese diasporas in order to identify its characteristics, its influences and its evolution and from a comparative approach, between the different communities in the world.

Programme (📎 PDF)

10h00 | Opening session
Luís Aires-Barros – President of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
Yvette Santos – Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH), Comissão das Migrações-SGL

10h10
Miriam Halpern Pereira (ISCTE-IUL) – Entre a escravatura e a emigração: a política migratória luso-brasileira (1850-1930)
Thierry Hinger (Luxembourg) – Manter os laços dos emigrantes portugueses com Portugal. A política de emigração de Portugal dos anos 1970 e 1980
Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade (CEMRI-UAb, Comissão das Migrações-SGL) – Migrações Portuguesas — Conhecimento e Memória
Manuel Dias (Comité Sousa Mendes) – Origem e desenvolvimento do “Musée National de l’Immigration”

14h30
Round-table
João Alfredo Félix Vieira Lima (Ex-Secretary of Emigration and Ex-Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Emigration, 1976-1978)
Maria Manuela Aguiar (Ex-Secretary of Emigration and Portuguese Communities, 1980-1981 and 1983-1987)
João Rui Gaspar de Almeida (Ex-Secretary of Portuguese Communities, 2000-2002)

17h00
Presentation of the book Le passage clandestin des Portugais par la frontière du Pays basque (Éd. Quatorze, Comité Sousa Mendes, 2017), authored by Rosa Arburua Goienetxe (Universidad del País Vasco), by Manuel Dias (Comité Sousa Mendes) and Marta Silva (IHC – NOVA FCSH)

Call for papers

The aim is to stimulate the discussion of the following questions:

• Diaspora concept;
• Diaspora and external policy;
• Portuguese communities and the civil society;
• Policies of maintenance of relationship between Portugal and its citizens;
• Portuguese communities and financial investment;
• Policies of return;
• Democracy, citizenship and political rights;
• Repatriation and integration in Portuguese society.

Proposals should include the title of the presentation, the abstract (until 300 words) and a biographical note (with the information of institutional affiliation, academic level, the five most relevant and recent publications). They should be sent to the following email: yvettedossantos@gmail.com.

📎   Call for papers (PDF)

Calendar

30 June: deadline for proposals
15 July: deadline for notifications
30 July: preliminary programme

Organisation

Comissão Migrações da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
Institute of Contemporary History – NOVA FCSH

Scientific Committee

Cristina Clímaco (University of Paris 8 and IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade (Universidade Aberta)
Thierry Hinger (Luxembourg)
Yvette Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)