Célia Reis received the Excellence Award of the fifth edition of the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Macao research in Humanities and Social Sciences for her article “The Extradition from Macao to China in the early twentieth century– Colonial practices between affirmation and maintenance”, published the journal Relações Internacionais, in 2015.

In this paper, the researcher analysed the extradition processes from Macao to China, one of the issues of the difficult relationship between the Chinese and Portuguese authorities, since the signing of the Lisbon Protocol and the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, in 1887.

The prize was a joint initiative of the Macao Foundation, the Social Sciences in China Press and the Guangdong Social Sciences Association. Out of 321 applications, 56 works received a prize, as stated in the press release of the results.