Researcher:
Matheus Serva Pereira
Funding:
Contract within the scope of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC/IND), 4th Edition, financed by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Ref. 2021.01651.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0008.
Abstract:
How did Africans in the Portuguese overseas colonial territories deal with legal processes to acquire the category of an “assimilado”? What strategies were used by Africans to become assimilated? What happened to the African assimilados after 1961, when the Portuguese assimilation policy ended? How did African “assimilados” participate in the decolonisation process and the building of African nations after independence? When and why were the memories and political uses of assimilation silenced or discussed in public debates? This project combines archival research and fieldwork in Mozambique and Portugal, comparing different types of sources, to explore Portuguese colonial assimilation and segregationist policies and their legacies, between the 1910s and 2010s, in African experiences and memories in the colonial and post-independence periods of Mozambique
Keywords: Colonialism; Post-colonialism; Citizenship; Social History; Memory.
Image: by MSP, 2023.