Postcolonial People

Postcolonial People

The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal

Kalter, Christoph

Cambridge University Press

10/2023

379

Mole

Inglês

9781108931595

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Decolonization, migration, and the post-imperial nation; 1. Returnees or refugees? Defining the retornados; 1.1 Charting the retornados: Who came?; 1.2 Portuguese decolonization and the 'exodus' from the colonies; 1.3 Who can remain Portuguese? Citizenship and race in the legal definition of retornados; 1.4 Representing the returnees: On stigma, scapegoating, and refugeeness; 1.5 Helping the refugees: Emergency relief beyond the nation-state; 1.6 (Almost) No refugees under international law: The UNHCR in Portugal; 1.7 From actors' categories to analytical categories: A forced migration?; 2. Hotels for the homeless: Integrating the retornados; 2.1 A small miracle? The success story of integration; 2.2 Housing the returnees: The state as an integrator; 2.3 Unusual guests: Retornados in hotels and pensions; 2.4 Of camps and prisons: The centers of collective accommodation and the limits of integration; 2.5 No straightforward story: The retornados' integration revisited; 3. Making claims and taking action: Retornados as political actors; 3.1 Dangerous migrants? Collective action, government response, apolitical politics; 3.2 Fragmented forces, limited leverage: The retornado associations; 3.3 'Children of the Lusitanian fatherland': Non-white retornado activists; 3.4 'Incredibly real and shocking': The Far-Right Weekly, 'Jornal O Retornado'; 3.5 On representation: Retornados in parliament and the parties of the political right; 3.6 Retornado politics - and its rapid disappearance; 4. The return of the return: Memory and the retornados' reemergence; 4.1 A world after empire: Portugal and the current memory moment; 4.2 Authenticity, traumatic loss, successful integration: The retornados today; 4.3 Historicizing memory: Historical thinking and truth; Conclusion: The presence and the future of the past.
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