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Deterritorialization Processes in the Portuguese Emigratory Context: Cinematic Representations of Departing and Returning

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The dislocation of persons in migration is firmly situated in geography, given that there are at stake configurations of new territorialities associated with the migrant’s need to rebuild social and spatial identities. Processes of deterritorialization by individuals are inevitable as are the ulterior affective experience with the place (topophilia). Deprival of the original territory and the loss of control and dominance of personal/collective territorialities generates this condition, in a clear reduction of the access to the place(s) that constitute the structuring axis of the space identity of each individual or group.

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de Castro, F.V. (2014). Deterritorialization Processes in the Portuguese Emigratory Context: Cinematic Representations of Departing and Returning. In: Rêgo, C., Brasileiro, M. (eds) Migration in Lusophone Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408921_5

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