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“Ethnic media”: The role of the leading Portuguese-speaking newspaper (“Contacto”) in Luxembourg  towards a community’s empowerment, integration and political involvement.

Suzana Cascao, University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Social and Economical Sciences IT

This paper aims at critically analyse and discuss the role of “ethnic media” in the process of integration and empowerment of the Portuguese migrant community in Luxembourg by looking at the role of “Contacto”, a Portuguese-speaking newspaper, in that socio-political process. The theoretical concept underpinning this study is that of ‘ethnic media’, i.e. “media produced by and for the immigrant, ethnic, racial, and linguistic minorities, and/or indigenous groups living in various countries around the world” (Ball-Rockeach, Katz and Matsaganis, 2011). Several studies provide evidence of a boom in ethnic media studies in the last decade (e.g. Georgiou, 2006; Geissler, 2009), highlighting the relevance of transnational identity and different ways it expresses itself. What previously has been considered as a niche, it is nowadays recognised by social sciences as an immense pool of information and observatory for migration studies. Whereas mainstream media often leaves behind migrant’s perspective and interests, “ethnic media” provides a unique look into their lives, concerns and demands. Even more relevant when that foreign community represents one-third of the total population of the host country, such as in the case of Portuguese in Luxembourg.

This paper shows how “Contacto” has been providing crucial information along with a set of empowering integration tools for over 40 years. It analyses the historical and social context, strives and accomplishments of the Portuguese communities in order to provide an insight at how the newspaper is crucial in Luxembourg’s public political space. Two key questions to be addressed are: Is there a public space which could serve as basis to an eventual right to vote for all foreign residents? Is the Portuguese community too ‘static’ and nostalgic-oriented and paying too little attention to the host country’s political life? This paper provides empirical analysis and theoretical discussion in order to answer both research questions.

Expulsion of European Union citizens from their host member state

Maslowski Solange, Charles University in Prague, CZ 

Drivers of highly-skilled emigration from Southern Europe in time of crisis

Laura, Bartolini, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas, European University Institute, Florence, IT

The migration of professionals within the EU: any barriers left? Migration, institutions and business cycle: evidence from the internal EU mobility

Stella Capuano, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, DE
Silvia Migali, University of Aarhus, DK

New mobilities of migration in Galicia (2010-2014)

Emilia García López, Head of Foreign Affairs of the Council for Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, ES

The emigration of Italian citizens in the 2000s: a special focus on the United Kingdom

Domenico Gabrielli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, National Institute of Statistics, Rome, IT

Beyond the numbers: socio-cultural backgrounds and expectations of the new Sardinian (e)migrants in the time of the crisis

 

Silvia Aru, Francesca Mazzuzi, Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio, Università degli studi di Cagliari, IT

Old and new Italian migrations in Belgium

Federica Moretti, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE

Mobility in Genoa during economy crises: from history to present times

Carlo Stiaccini (CISEI), Andrea Torre (Centro Studi MEDI’), CISEI, Genova, IT

Bonding the Portuguese Diaspora: Secular, Religious and Leisure Catalysts Politics and Practices

Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais/ CEMRI, Universidade Aberta/ UAb, Lisboa, PT

Gunnar Nergaard and the Mummies of Chui-Chui

Knut Djupedal, Director of the Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Ottestad, NO

Crossing Boundaries: Negotiating transnational heritage and belonging in the German Waldensian diaspora

Elisa Gosso, University of Turin PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

The Irish National Diaspora Centre

Brian Lambkin, Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, UK

Filling the gaps in the archival sector: Current gender migration in an oral history case study

Triantafillia Kourtoumi, General State Archives of Greece, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, GR

Transnational Italian Networks and Transnational Italian Studies

Margaret Hills de Zárate, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK, Marco Santello, University of Warwick, UK

European Citizenship through European migration history

Sarah Clément, Génériques, Paris, FR

Food traditions amongst italian migrants in Luxembourg, between the need to be faithful to the past and new future challenges

Maria Luisa Caldognetto, Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaine, Dudelange, LU 

Developing a Sustainable Model in Mutual Cultural Digital Heritage

Nonja Peters, Curtin University & University of Western Sydney, AU

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