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Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. both phenomena result from the Portuguese \"Discoveries\" of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole languages and indigenized Portuguese culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries these were joined by millions of economic migrants who established Portuguese settlements in Europe, North America, Venezuela and South Africa - and in less likely places, including Bermuda, Guyana and Hawaii. Interwoven within this global history of the diaspora are stories of the Portuguese who left mainland Portugal and the islands, the lives of the Sephardic Jews, the African slaves imported into the Atlantic Islands and Brazil and the Goans who later spread along the imperial highways of Portugal and Britain. much of Portugal's contribution to science and the arts, as well as its influence in the modern world, can be attributed to the members of these widely scattered Portuguese communities, and these are given their due in Newitt's engrossing volume. -- jacket

This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors between the communities they represent and various social service mechanisms operating at national and local levels. Through the collection of ethnographic data and the realisation of 110 interviews with community insiders and middlemen, culled over a year's time, João Sardinha provides insight into how the three groups are perceived by their respective associations and representatives. Following up on the rich data is a discussion of strategies of coping with integration and identity in the host society and reflections on Portuguese social and community services and institutions. João Sardinha analyseert de integratieprocessen en identiteitspatronen van de Angolese, Braziliaanse en Oost-Europese gemeenschappen in Portugal, gezien vanuit deze bevolkingsgroepen. Door gebruik te maken van interviews en etnografisch onderzoek in Portugal komt dit onderzoek tot een typologie van deze drie groepen. Hierna volgt een analyse van het omgaan met de integratie- en identiteitsproblematiek in Portugal. Ten slotte wordt er een overzicht gegeven van acht verschillende Portugese sociale en gemeenschapsdiensten en -instellingen.

Using a systems approach, this book examines how transatlantic labor migrations were linked to European circuits of geographic mobility, and explores the development of social networks that were crucial in Portuguese migrants’ socioeconomic adaptation in the Argentine pampas and Patagonia.; Readership: Readers interested in social history and historical sociology; labor history; world and transnational history; migration, ethnic and diaspora studies; history of Latin America, southern Europe, and the Atlantic World.

01 02 This volume explores the role and history of migration and diaspora within the Portuguese empire, investigating what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage. The book consists of twelve case studies which look at topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.  02 02 This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal. 13 02 ERIC MORIER-GENOUD is a lecturer in African and Imperial History at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has written extensively on religion and on politics in Southern Africa, and he works presently on missionaries and transnational sciences and politics as well as war, memory and memorial in contemporary Mozambique. He is co-editor of the journal Social Sciences and Missions and co-author (with Caroline Jeannerat and Didier Péclard) of Embroiled: Swiss Churches, South Africa and Apartheid . MICHEL CAHEN is a senior researcher at the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Bordeaux Political Studies Institute, France. 04 02 List of Illustrations Notes of Contributors Introduction: Portugal, Empire and Migrations; E.Morier-Genoud  & M.Cahen PART I: LONGUE-DUREE MIGRATIONS IN AND AROUND THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE 'Portuguese' Diasporas: A Survey of the Scholarly Literature; E.Alpers & M.Ball Africans in Portuguese Society: Classification Ambiguities and Colonial Realities; I.C.Henriques PART II: COLONIAL MIGRATIONS IN THE THIRD PORTUGUESE EMPIRE Colonial Migration to Angola and Mozambique: Constraints and Illusions; C.Castelo Imperial Actors? Cape Verdean Mentality in the Portuguese Empire Under the Estado Novo, 1926–1974; A.Keese Unlike the other Whites? The Swiss in Mozambique under Colonialism; S.Chichava The Ismailis of Mozambique. History of a Twofold Migration (late 19th Century-1975); N.Khouri  & J.P.Leite PART III: MIGRATIONS AT THE MARGINS OF THE THIRD EMPIRE Representing the Portuguese Empire: Goan Consuls in British East Africa, c.1920-1950; M.Frenz The Making of a Portuguese Community in South Africa, 1900-1994; C.Glaser From Mozambique to Brazil: The 'Good Portuguese' of the Chinese Athletic Club; L.Macagno PART IV: IDEOLOGY AND HERITAGE Luso-African Intimacies: Conceptions of National and Transnational Community; R.Williams 'Mundo Pretuguês': Colonial and Postcolonial Diasporic Dis/articulations; A.Vakil 'Portugal is in the Sky': Conceptual Considerations on Communities, Lusitanity and Lusophony; M.Cahen Conclusion: Decolonization and Diaspora; J.Darwin Bibliography Index 31 02 This volume explores the role and history of migration and diaspora within the Portuguese empire 19 02 First book to explore, in-depth, the role and history of migration and diaspora within the Portuguese empire Includes a range of international case studies focussing on topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal Investigates how migration and diaspora have shaped the Portuguese empire

In the popular imagination, seventeenth-century Amsterdam was an oasis of religious toleration in a conflict-ridden Europe and a city that welcomed Jews with open arms. This image is exaggerated and misleading, as scholars have long since shown. In this essay, I will examine how the interests of the Dutch ruling class, the regents, dovetailed with the interests of the governing elite of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam to create structures of Jewish governance that were agreeable to both governing parties. While maintaining peace was one of the common interests between them, so was maintaining discipline. Neither the Dutch nor the Jewish authorities sought “liberty of conscience” in the modern sense of the term, that is, individual religious and philosophical freedom. For most, though not all, members of the Portuguese-Jewish community, this arrangement was natural and fully acceptable.

In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola from 1800 to 1932. Mozambique is a secondary area as well as late colonial times in Brazil.

During the Second World War, Portugal was called upon to exercise its duties of protection towards the Portuguese Jews in the territories under the German Reich. Known as \"Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin\", most of these people had received Portuguese documents as a result of a 1913 decision to grant provisional nationality to a number of Ottoman Jewish families from Salonika at the time of the Balkan Wars.

A partir de documentos que se conservan en los archivos de la ciudad de Hamburgo, este estudio intenta reflejar la vida de los primeros judíos portugueses que a partir de finales del siglo XVI hacen su aparición en la ciudad hanseática, así como sus relaciones con los asquenasíes (llamados «tudescos») y los luteranos, claramente antijudíos.