Perpetual Motion – Stories of Portuguese Migration
No. 18 MAY 2016
There is a baker exiled in Timor at the beginning of the military dictatorship. And two young children trapped by the Second World War, rescued by Australians and taken in by the Casa Pia children's home in Lisbon. There is a lumberjack who has followed orders to fight in Mozambique. And a worker who deserted and fled to France. There are women who were on the Portuguese-Spanish border smuggling in people without papers. And women who joined their husbands in Mozambique and had to flee. There is a sales representative that got through all of this but who the crisis took by surprise; unemployed and with a house to pay for, he tried his luck in England. And there is a crossroads of other lives that circumstances push into or out of the country. They are echoes of the last one hundred years of Portuguese migration.
There is a baker exiled in Timor at the beginning of the military dictatorship. And two young children trapped by the Second World War, rescued by Australians and taken in by the Casa Pia children's home in Lisbon. There is a lumberjack who has followed orders to fight in Mozambique. And a worker who deserted and fled to France. There are women who were on the Portuguese-Spanish border smuggling in people without papers. And women who joined their husbands in Mozambique and had to flee. There is a sales representative that got through all of this but who the crisis took by surprise; unemployed and with a house to pay for, he tried his luck in England. And there is a crossroads of other lives that circumstances push into or out of the country. They are echoes of the last one hundred years of Portuguese migration.
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Dimensions
7 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-8838-59-9