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Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?

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It is a well-established understanding in historiography that empire building is closely linked to human migration, both as a cause and a consequence. The historiography on the subject is rich, with many articles and books about the movement of metropolitan people to the colonies as well as colonised individuals and groups moving within the empire and to the metropole (the mother country) during and after empire. As noted by many, the coincidence between empire and migration is not perfect since many people migrated during empire but outside the formal imperial space or within the imperial space but before or after formal subjugation. Still, the coincidence remains very important.1

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  1. Queen’s University Belfast, UK

    Eric Morier-Genoud

  2. CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France

    Michel Cahen

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Morier-Genoud, E., Cahen, M. (2013). Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?. In: Morier-Genoud, E., Cahen, M. (eds) Imperial Migrations. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265005_1

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