Familiar Experiences among Continents (Portugal, Africa, and Brazil)

Political movements and wars in the Portuguese colonies in Africa in the 1970s were important in determining migration to Sao Paulo - Brazil, especially for those of Portuguese and their descendants who used to live there. In this paper, we seek to understand these new migratory flows and their influence on family experiences using oral histories of immigrants and their families as a complementary along with other sources. The narratives provide insight into the complex dynamics of family during their shifts; we find the conditions for the arrival of Portuguese to African regions, experiences of generations and the immigration to Brazil according to the existing possibilities at that time. With regards to family dynamics, we observed the frequent and unexpected separations in the immigration process and the constitution of families with different

Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Family Business Performance and Succession