Work performed and main achievements
The scientific activities have made major contributions to the international scholarly community in the field of the history of Portuguese migration to France during the interwar period, as well as in the analysis of migrant rejection and return processes to the country of origin.
Publications and events
Preparation of a monograph for an international publisher, to be submitted to Palgrave Pivot, on the topic of expulsions and assisted returns of Portuguese migrants during the interwar period.
Submission of the scholarly article Migrant Women and the Administration: The Case of Portuguese Women in France during the Interwar Period to the special issue Women, Migration and Historical Identity Documentation in Europe: Surveillance, Security and Survival for Women’s History Review.
Submission of the scholarly article Irregular Migrants Expelled from 1930s France: The Case of Portuguese Migrants in the Gironde Department to Contemporary History Review. Based on the analysis of individual dossiers collected and examined within the project, this article has been recently submitted and contributes to the dissemination of original empirical results from my research.
Coordination of the seminar Comparative Social History of Migrations for the Master’s program Comparative Social History, focusing on the notions of circulation, transnationalism, transfers, and the connected and entangled history of migrations.
Organization of the research seminar Social Sciences and Migrations for the Master’s track Migrations (ENS Lyon).
Organization of the online research seminar Between Migrations and Rejections: Cross-Perspectives on Undesirability and Assisted Return in the Twentieth Century. This international seminar brought together researchers specializing in migration history and postcolonial history (from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Argentina, the United Kingdom) to discuss the policies and practices of migrant rejection and assisted return in the 20th century.
Oral presentations
September 2024: with Alícia Gil Lázara, ¿Deseables o indeseables? Los emigrantes portugueses y españoles y el proceso de repatriación durante el periodo de entreguerras desde los países latino-americanos, at the XXᵉ International Congress of the Association of Latin American Historians (AHILA), Naples, on the theme Entre América y el Mediterráneo. Actores, ideas, circulaciones entre los mundos ibéricos.
March 2025: Portuguese migrants in France between the wars and individual strategies to counter undesirability, at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Leiden University.
June 2025: A Transnational and Comparative Approach to the Assisted Return of Portuguese Migrants from France and Brazil, at The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS), University of Maryland.
February 2025: Qui mérite le retour ? Le «grand rapatriement» des Portugais depuis le Brésil, 1929-1933, in the seminar Indésirabilité, coordinated by Aurélie Audeval and Ivan Olaya.
Conceptual model and database
On a methodological level, the project developed a transferable conceptual model of migratory undesirability and established a database covering more than 4,000 migrants, built from cross-referenced serial sources processed digitally. This approach combines quantitative analysis with detailed biographical reconstruction.
Geovisualization
The use of geovisualization allowed mapping of regional and transnational mobilities, identification of key border crossing points, and a better understanding of the operational and financial arrangements for returns. It thus provides reusable tools for the comparative study of coercive migration policies.
