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.

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EDWARD A. ALPERS Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA MOLLY BALL Graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA CLÁUDIA CASTELO Researcher at the Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon, Portugal SÉRGIO INÁCIO CHICHAVA Researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), Mozambique JOHN DARWIN Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at University of Oxford, UK MARGRET FRENZ Lecturer in Global History at the University of Leicester, UK CLIVE GLASER Lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa ISABEL CASTRO HENRIQUES Professor of African and Colonial History at the University of Lisbon, Portugal ALEXANDER KEESE Research Group Director at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany NICOLE KHOURI Assistant Professor (Maitre de conférences) at the Institut du développement économique et social (IEDES), Université de Paris 1, France JOANA PEREIRA LEITE Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal LORENZO MACAGNO Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil ABDOOLKARIM VAKIL Lecturer in the Departments of History and of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King's College London, UK ROSA WILLIAMS PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago, USA

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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, 19261974; 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