This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

EDWARD A. ALPERS Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA MOLLY BALL Graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA CLÁUDIA CASTELO Researcher at the Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon, Portugal SÉRGIO INÁCIO CHICHAVA Researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), Mozambique JOHN DARWIN Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at University of Oxford, UK MARGRET FRENZ Lecturer in Global History at the University of Leicester, UK CLIVE GLASER Lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa ISABEL CASTRO HENRIQUES Professor of African and Colonial History at the University of Lisbon, Portugal ALEXANDER KEESE Research Group Director at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany NICOLE KHOURI Assistant Professor (Maitre de conférences) at the Institut du développement économique et social (IEDES), Université de Paris 1, France JOANA PEREIRA LEITE Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal LORENZO MACAGNO Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil ABDOOLKARIM VAKIL Lecturer in the Departments of History and of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King's College London, UK ROSA WILLIAMS PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago, USA