Resumen de Empire, postcoloniality and diasporas: the portuguese case

Bela Feldman-Bianco

• The text analyzes the contradictions, ambiguities and accommodations underlying the remodelling of Portugal from an imperial metropolis into a European post-colonial nation.

  It focuses on two interrelated and contradictory facets of national redefinition � namely, the incorporation of Portuguese transnational migrants into the nation and Portugal�s transformation into a receptor of immigrants from its former colonies.