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Between Pinela and Paris: emigration and return

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Summary:The comparative analysis that this article puts forward shows how people become emigrants through necessity, by resonance and by being dragged along; the vigour of social networks; the key role of women; the interdependence between those who stay behind and those who leave; the way in which the new mobility is eroding the concept of emigration; resulting assets and achievements, symbols of breaking-off, here and there; the return, deep incision, tense sum of losses and prior acts.
Main Authors:Portela, José
Other Authors:Nobre, Sílvia
Subject:regresso dos migrantes emigração portuguesa return of migrants portuguese emigration
Year:2002
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:unknown
Associated institution:Universidade de Lisboa
Language:Portuguese
Origin:Análise Social
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Summary:The comparative analysis that this article puts forward shows how people become emigrants through necessity, by resonance and by being dragged along; the vigour of social networks; the key role of women; the interdependence between those who stay behind and those who leave; the way in which the new mobility is eroding the concept of emigration; resulting assets and achievements, symbols of breaking-off, here and there; the return, deep incision, tense sum of losses and prior acts.

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