Date  8 de setembro de 2023
Duration  02:14:42
Location  Medieval village of Ourém and Zoom
Organization  Ourém municipality in partnership with the Emigration Observatory

This seminar, held with the aim of addressing the current panorama of Portuguese emigration, as well as questioning and reflecting on the cultural exchanges and identity representations built on migratory trajectories, featured six papers divided into three panels. Here you can watch the III panel “Effects of the return of emigrants to their places of origin”, which featured the presentation of the study Place of departure, return or passage? The impact of migration on a village in Trás-os-Montes, by João Baía, and The representation of migrants in cinema. Designing mental maps and anatopias based on film analysis, by Fátima Velez de Castro, moderated by Inês Vidigal.

Sobre os oradores

João Baía is a recent PhD candidate in anthropology as part of the doctoral programme in migration at the University of Lisbon, with a thesis entitled “Border, (i)mobilities and translocal networks: Migrations from a village in Trás-os-Montes”. In recent years she has worked on cross-border relations and practices, migrations, translocal networks, peripheral memories and the biographical method. She took part as a research assistant in a project on the biographical method at CIES-Iscte and in a project on Portuguese irregular emigration between 1957-1974 at IHC-NOVA. Previously, as part of his master's degree in anthropology at FCSH-NOVA and his undergraduate degree in sociology at FEUC, he worked on urban social movements, housing policies, residents' participation, mutual learning and the SAAL project, based on the study of a SAAL Operation and a neighbourhood in Coimbra. He is currently an associate researcher at the IHC-NOVA and the Emigration Observatory.

Fátima Velez de Castro has a degree in geography (specialising in teaching), a master's degree in European studies, a doctorate in geography and a post-doctorate in literature. She works as an assistant professor in the geography and tourism department of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, where she is a member of the scientific committee. She is also coordinator of the master's degree in geography teaching; researcher at CEIS20 (integrated member) and coordinator of Group 2 - Europeanism, Altanticity and Globalisation; president of RISCOS (Portuguese Association of Risks, Prevention and Safety). Her main research themes include the teaching of geography, geography and social risks and the geography of migration.

Sobre a moderadora

Inês Vidigal has a degree in geography from FLUL, a master's degree in European policies from IGOT-UL and is a PhD candidate in sociology at Iscte-IUL. Since 2014, she has been a research assistant at the Emigration Observatory, where she is responsible for the statistical data on the website and its communication to the general public.  She is the editorial coordinator of the periodicals, OEm Fact Sheets and Portuguese Emigration Factbook. She is the co-author of several publications on emigration, including the statistical yearbook Emigração Portuguesa. Statistical Report. She has participated in research projects on migration at IGOT-UL and ISCTE-IUL. She worked at Pordata – Database of Contemporary Portugal for three years, where she disseminated statistical information on social and economic indicators in open access for civil society.