Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Isabel Tiago de et al. Return and circulation of Portuguese emigrants in the early 21st century. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2016, n.81, pp.11-35. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2016817155.

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.

Keywords : Portugal; emigration; return; transnationalism; circulation.

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