Return migration and transnationalism: alternatives or complements?

Call for abstracts

How are return migration and transnationalism connected? Research has shown the prevalence of the ‘myth of return’ and return visits as ingredients of migrant transnationalism, but what do we know about the connections between different kinds of transnational identifications and practices and considerations about return migration? Preparedness has been identified as an important success factor for return migration, but how does transnationalism affect return migrants’ preparedness for return, and how do sustained transnational ties impact on processes of ‘reintegration’? The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) will host a workshop entitled Return migration and transnationalism: alternatives or complements? and invites abstracts that address these or similar questions.
11 March 2012: Deadline for submission of abstracts

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Associação de Luso-Descendentes não percebe desinteresse com comunidade emigrante

09 JUN 11 às 00:26
A presidente da Associação dos Luso-Descendentes não percebe o desinteresse dos políticos em tempo de crise na comunidade emigrante espalhada pelo mundo bem como nos que decidiram regressar. A TSF falou com Emmanuelle Afonso, que explicou também como surgiu a ideia desta associação.
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Os avós levaram malas de cartão. Os netos trazem diplomas

por Maria Catarina Nunes, 17 de Dezembro de 2010

(...) Na véspera das comemorações do Dia Internacional do Migrante, o i falou com a presidente do Observatório Luso-Descendente, criado a 10 de Junho, para perceber a realidade das famílias portuguesas que abandonaram o país nas últimas décadas. Muitos partiram de Portugal a medo, alguns munidos de malas de cartão. Hoje, diz o Observatório, regressam os filhos e os netos, altamente qualificados e com conhecimentos que ficam à disposição do país de origem dos pais e dos avós (...)

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Jornada de uma jovem luso-canadiana (livro)

Imagine a teen being told that he or she has to follow their immigrant parents and begin a new life in a place that says nothing to them, taken from friends and school. This is a reality we are all well aware of. Stories of kids and weeping parents making headlines in the media. Nelsa Roberto, a luso-canadian writer from Toronto took the challenge to tell the story of a young girl whose family is deported to Portugal.
Fonte: I am future 

When seventeen-year-old Lucy do Amaral comes home with newly bleached blonde hair she expects a major lecture and another grounding from her strict Portuguese parents. What she doesn't expect is the shocking news that her parents are illegal aliens who've just been told they're being deported in less than a week (..:)
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