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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Christoph Kalter, "Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal " (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Description: In the space of a few months in 1975, more than 500,000 Portuguese settlers fled their homes in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Sao TomĂ© and Principe, and East Timor and âreturnedâ to Portugal. These so-called retornados led to a 5-9% population surge during the tumult of the Carnation Revolution. How did Portugal, with its weak economy, handle this influx as its transitioned out of decades of dictatorship under the Estado Novo? Christoph Kalterâs Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal (Cambridge University Press, 2022) analyzes this previously neglected chapter in the history of decolonization. Postcolonial People explores how European natio...