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- Title
Building Nations After Empire: Post-Imperial Migrations to Portugal in a Western European Context.
- Authors
Kalter, Christoph
- Abstract
Building on original research and dialoguing with scholarly works on Portugal, France and the United Kingdom, this article argues that decolonisation and migrations from the (former) colonies triggered and moulded a new, post-imperial nation-building in Western Europe. Analysing the highly significant but hitherto much-neglected case of Portugal in its broader Western European context, this claim is substantiated by surveying how these migrations affected citizenship and notions of the national community, the welfare state and public memories. Comparative and relational in its approach, the article links the histories of white 'returnees' from Portugal's African colonies after the 1974 Carnation Revolution to those of non-white 'immigrants', arguing that we must situate in the same analytical field all those who migrated from (formerly) colonised territories to the metropole during the drawn-out end of empire.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; NATION building; POLITICAL development; DECOLONIZATION; SOVEREIGNTY; CITIZENSHIP; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777321000837