Biography

Victor Pereira holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (2007). Assistant Professor at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour between 2010 and 2021, he is currently Principal 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). With Nuno Domingos, he coordinated the book O Estado Novo em questão [Estado Novo in Question] (Edições 70, 2010) and published A ditadura de Salazar e a emigração. O Estado português e os migrantes em França (1957-1974) [Salazar’s dictatorship and emigration] (Temas e Debates, 2014). He 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).

Research fields

• Migrations
• Exile
• Estado Novo
• History of sports

Selected publications

• Pereira, Victor. “Les Portugais en France pendant mai-juin 1968,” Revista de História das Ideias 38 (2020): 269-305. [PDF]
• Pereira, Victor, “Portugal and Human Trafficking (1822–2018),” in The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking, edited by John Winterdyk and Jackie Jones, 355-364. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_115-1. [link]
• Pereira, Victor. A ditadura de Salazar e a emigração. O Estado português e os seus migrantes (1957-1974). Lisbon: Temas e Debates, 2014. [link]
• Pereira, Victor. “Emigração e desenvolvimento da previdência social em Portugal,” Análise Social 192 (2009): 471-510. [PDF]

Main projects

• Principal researcher in the individual research project “Whites who sell everything’. Portuguese shopkeepers in Rio de Janeiro, Kinshasa and Paris (XIXth-XXIth century)” — Hosted by the IHC – NOVA FCSH and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2020.03576.CEECIND). 2021-
• Researcher in the project “RECURUT – Recuperación histórica de las rutas migratorias” [Historical recovery of migratory routes] — Coordinated by Roberto Ceamanos Llorens and Julián Casanova (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Laurent Jalabert (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour) and funded by the European programme POCTEFA. 2014-2015 [link]
• Coordinator of the project “Beyond failure and machiavelism. The illegal Portuguese emigration to France, 1957-1974” — Hosted by the IHC – NOVA FCSH and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/HIS-HIS/103810/2008). 2010-2013
• Researcher in the project “The Making of State Power in Portugal: Institutionalization Processes from 1890 to 1986” — Coordinated by José Neves (IHC – NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/HIS/HIS/104166/2008). 2010-2013
• Researcher in the project “Imagining Modern Portugal? The role of football in the construction of communities and “Portugueseness” in six diasporic settings” — Coordinated by Nina Clara Tiesler (ICS – ULisbon) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/SDE/75437/2006). 2007-2010