Cláudia Pereira is a research fellow and invited assistant professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (IUL), integrated at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). Pereira is the executive coordinator of the Portuguese Emigration Observatory (Observatório da Emigração) (OEm), Portugal. She holds a licenciate degree and Ph.D. in Anthropology from ISCTE, IUL. She and the OEm team are responsible for the Yearly Report on Portuguese Emigrants produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and analysed in Parliament. Since 2012 she has been the principal researcher on a project funded by the national Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) on the financial crisis and skilled Portuguese migrants in England. She co-coordinates an academic network of migration researchers, Rede Migra. She has also been invited as an expert to advise on capacity-building projects for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) funded by the European Commission (EC). Previously she conducted ethnographic research in India for a total of two years among Catholics and Hindus, investigating the meaning of caste and tribe in the 21st century. Collaborative research with governmental and non-governmental organizations and the dissemination of knowledge on migration have been her top priorities. She published the book Vidas Partidas. Enfermeiros Portugueses no Estrangeiro (Divided Lives. Portuguese Nurses Abroad) in 2015. Her current research interests are Portuguese emigration, immigration, migration networks, the migration of nurses and skilled migrants.Joana Azevedo is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and integrated research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She holds a PhD in Social Theory and Research from La Sapienza University in Rome (2007), a postgraduate diploma in Data Analysis in Social Sciences (2010) and a licenciate degree in Sociology (2001) from the ISCTE-IUL. She is currently a member of the Observatories of Emigration (OEm) and Communication (OberCom), and co-coordinates the interdisciplinary academic network Rede Migra. She is a member of the national evaluationpanel for research funding through AMIF (Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the EU). She coordinated the research project “Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Participation and Citizenship” (CIES-IUL/Emigration Observatory); “Highly skilled Portuguese Emigration in the European Context” (funded by the national science foundation, FCT), and, as a team member, “REMIGR. Back to the future: new emigration and links to Portuguese society” (funded by FCT). Among her publications are “Contextual reasons for emigrants’ electoral participation in home country elections: the Portuguese case”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2017; Regresso Ao Futuro: A Nova Emigração e a Sociedade Portuguesa (Back to the Future: new emigration and Portuguese society, 2016, Gradiva); and “Regresso e circulação de emigrantes portugueses no início do século XXI (Return and circulation of Portuguese emigrants at the beginning of the 21st century)”, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 2016. Her areas of interest are the sociology of migration, Portuguese immigration and emigration, ethnic and religious diversity, skilled migration, political participation, and migration policies.

• 1. The Fourth Wave of Portuguese Emigration: Austerity Policies, European Peripheries and Postcolonial Continuities: Cláudia Pereira and Joana Azevedo.- Part I New Patterns of Portuguese Emigration: a Broad Perspective : 2. Portuguese Emigration Today: Rui Pena Pires.- 3. New Emigration and Portuguese Society: Transnationalism and Return: João Peixoto, Pedro Candeias, Bárbara Ferreira, Isabel Tiago de Oliveira, Joana Azevedo, José Carlos Marques, Pedro Góis, Jorge Malheiros, Paulo Miguel Madeira, Aline Schiltz, Alexandra Ferro and Eugénio Santana.- 4. Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Representation: the Challenges of the External Vote: Marco Lisi, Ana Maria Belchior, Manuel Abrantes and Joana Azevedo: Part II The Labour Market and Portuguese Emigration: Highly Skilled and Less Skilled Migrants: 5. A New Skilled Emigration Dynamic: Portuguese Nurses and Recruitment in the Southern European Periphery: Cláudia Pereira.- 6. Migrating to Complete Transitions: a Study of High-Skilled Youth Migration to France     João Teixeira Lopes.- 7. ‘Pulled’ or ‘Pushed’?  The Emigration of Portuguese Scientists: Ana Delicado.- 8. Working Class Condition and Migrant Experience:  the Case of Portuguese Construction Workers: João Queirós.- 9. Entrepreneurship Among Portuguese Nationals in Luxembourg: José Carlos Marques.- Part III Portuguese Emigrants: Postcolonial Continuities: 10. Contemporary Portuguese Migration Experiences in Brazil:Old Routes, New Trends: Marta Vilar Rosales and Vânia Pereira Machado.- 11. Portuguese Emigration to Angola (2000-2015): Strengthening a Specific Postcolonial Relationship in a New Global Framework?: Pedro Candeias, Jorge Malheiros, José Carlos Marques, Ermelinda Liberato.- Part IV Portuguese Emigrants: Identities: 12. “I Was Enthused When I ‘Returned’ To Portugal, But I'm Leaving Disillusioned”:  Portuguese Migrant Descendant Returnees from Canada and Narratives of Return, Re-Return And Twice Migration: JoãoSardinha.- 13. An Immigrant in America Yes, But Not an Emigrant in My Own Country! The Unbearable Weight of a Persistent Label: Graça Índias Cordeiro.- Part V Final Reflections: 14. New Migration Dynamics on the South-Western Periphery of Europe: Theoretical Reflections on the Portuguese Case: Russell King.

Cláudia Pereira is a research fellow and invited assistant professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (IUL), integrated at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). Pereira is the executive coordinator of the Portuguese Emigration Observatory (Observatório da Emigração) (OEm), Portugal. She holds a licenciate degree and Ph.D. in Anthropology from ISCTE, IUL. She and the OEm team are responsible for the Yearly Report on Portuguese Emigrants produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and analysed in Parliament. Since 2012 she has been the principal researcher on a project funded by the national Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) on the financial crisis and skilled Portuguese migrants in England. She co-coordinates an academic network of migration researchers, Rede Migra. She has also been invited as an expert to advise on capacity-building projects for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) funded by the European Commission (EC). Previously she conducted ethnographic research in India for a total of two years among Catholics and Hindus, investigating the meaning of caste and tribe in the 21st century. Collaborative research with governmental and non-governmental organizations and the dissemination of knowledge on migration have been her top priorities. She published the book Vidas Partidas. Enfermeiros Portugueses no Estrangeiro (Divided Lives. Portuguese Nurses Abroad) in 2015. Her current research interests are Portuguese emigration, immigration, migration networks, the migration of nurses and skilled migrants.Joana Azevedo is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and integrated research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She holds a PhD in Social Theory and Research from La Sapienza University in Rome (2007), a postgraduate diploma in Data Analysis in Social Sciences (2010) and a licenciate degree in Sociology (2001) from the ISCTE-IUL. She is currently a member of the Observatories of Emigration (OEm) and Communication (OberCom), and co-coordinates the interdisciplinary academic network Rede Migra. She is a member of the national evaluationpanel for research funding through AMIF (Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the EU). She coordinated the research project “Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Participation and Citizenship” (CIES-IUL/Emigration Observatory); “Highly skilled Portuguese Emigration in the European Context” (funded by the national science foundation, FCT), and, as a team member, “REMIGR. Back to the future: new emigration and links to Portuguese society” (funded by FCT). Among her publications are “Contextual reasons for emigrants’ electoral participation in home country elections: the Portuguese case”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2017; Regresso Ao Futuro: A Nova Emigração e a Sociedade Portuguesa (Back to the Future: new emigration and Portuguese society, 2016, Gradiva); and “Regresso e circulação de emigrantes portugueses no início do século XXI (Return and circulation of Portuguese emigrants at the beginning of the 21st century)”, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 2016. Her areas of interest are the sociology of migration, Portuguese immigration and emigration, ethnic and religious diversity, skilled migration, political participation, and migration policies.

• 1. The Fourth Wave of Portuguese Emigration: Austerity Policies, European Peripheries and Postcolonial Continuities: Cláudia Pereira and Joana Azevedo.- Part I New Patterns of Portuguese Emigration: a Broad Perspective : 2. Portuguese Emigration Today: Rui Pena Pires.- 3. New Emigration and Portuguese Society: Transnationalism and Return: João Peixoto, Pedro Candeias, Bárbara Ferreira, Isabel Tiago de Oliveira, Joana Azevedo, José Carlos Marques, Pedro Góis, Jorge Malheiros, Paulo Miguel Madeira, Aline Schiltz, Alexandra Ferro and Eugénio Santana.- 4. Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Representation: the Challenges of the External Vote: Marco Lisi, Ana Maria Belchior, Manuel Abrantes and Joana Azevedo: Part II The Labour Market and Portuguese Emigration: Highly Skilled and Less Skilled Migrants: 5. A New Skilled Emigration Dynamic: Portuguese Nurses and Recruitment in the Southern European Periphery: Cláudia Pereira.- 6. Migrating to Complete Transitions: a Study of High-Skilled Youth Migration to France     João Teixeira Lopes.- 7. ‘Pulled’ or ‘Pushed’?  The Emigration of Portuguese Scientists: Ana Delicado.- 8. Working Class Condition and Migrant Experience:  the Case of Portuguese Construction Workers: João Queirós.- 9. Entrepreneurship Among Portuguese Nationals in Luxembourg: José Carlos Marques.- Part III Portuguese Emigrants: Postcolonial Continuities: 10. Contemporary Portuguese Migration Experiences in Brazil:Old Routes, New Trends: Marta Vilar Rosales and Vânia Pereira Machado.- 11. Portuguese Emigration to Angola (2000-2015): Strengthening a Specific Postcolonial Relationship in a New Global Framework?: Pedro Candeias, Jorge Malheiros, José Carlos Marques, Ermelinda Liberato.- Part IV Portuguese Emigrants: Identities: 12. “I Was Enthused When I ‘Returned’ To Portugal, But I'm Leaving Disillusioned”:  Portuguese Migrant Descendant Returnees from Canada and Narratives of Return, Re-Return And Twice Migration: JoãoSardinha.- 13. An Immigrant in America Yes, But Not an Emigrant in My Own Country! The Unbearable Weight of a Persistent Label: Graça Índias Cordeiro.- Part V Final Reflections: 14. New Migration Dynamics on the South-Western Periphery of Europe: Theoretical Reflections on the Portuguese Case: Russell King.