Return and circulation of Portuguese emigrants in the early 21st century

Authors

  • Isabel Tiago de Oliveira Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Pedro Candeias Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (IGOT), Lisboa, Portugal.
  • João Peixoto Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações (SOCIUS/CSG), Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Joana Azevedo Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Jorge Macaísta Malheiros Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (IGOT), Lisboa, Portugal.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2016817155

Keywords:

Portugal, emigration, return, transnationalism, circulation

Abstract

This text’s main objective is to assess the importance of the return of Portuguese emigrants in 2001-2011, in the light of the number of people who came back, their sociodemographic profiles, the variations in the countries they came from, and the emergence of new forms of mobility. A more particular goal is to produce a typology of forms of return: some more associated with the traditional view of people emigrating when they are of working age and coming home in the retirement phase of their lives; others that suggest movements of a different type, with earlier returns while the returnee is still working. The authors also look at how an increase in complex mobility patterns can lead to a different pattern of returns. Recent data reveal some of the new mobility formats, including a growing trend towards circulation.

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Published

2016-06-07

Issue

No. 81 (2016)

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