Victor Pereira

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Victor Pereira (victor.pereira@univ-pau.fr) is a “Maître de Conférences” in Contemporary History at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France and also an associated researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He holds a History degree (1999) and Masters degree (2000) by the University of Rouen, as well as a DEA in Contemporary History (2001) by the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris. In 2007 he obtained his PhD also in Contemporary History with the dissertation “O Estado português e os portugueses em França (1957-1974)” under the orientation of Serge Berstein.

Between 2001 and 2004 he was Assistant Professor in the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris and since 2003 he is a member of the publishing board of the review Lusotopie. Since 2010 and until 2013 he is the Principal Investigador (PI) of the project “Beyond failure and machiavelism. The illegal Portuguese emigration to France, 1957-1974” (FCT).

His main research areas are: Portuguese Emigration towards France in the 20th Century; Sports and Migration; Portuguese Economic and Administrative élite in the dictatorship regime.

    Most relevant publications (as an author and co-author):

     Among his main publications are: Nuno Domingos and Victor Pereira, O Estado Novo em Questão, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2010; «Do povo à comunidade. Os emigrantes no imaginário Português», in José Neves (ed,), Como se faz um povo, Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2010, pp.139-152; «Une passion portugaise», Claude Boli, Yvan Gastaut and Fabrice Grognet (eds), Allez la France! Football et immigration, histories croisées, Paris, Gallimard/Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration/Musée National du Sport, 2010, pp. 50-53; «L’émigration clandestine portugaise vers la France et les paradoxes de l’intégration européenne», Béatrice Hibou, Michel Péraldi (eds.), L’Europe en ses limes, Arles, Actes Sud, 2010; together with Maria José Fernández, «Politiques migratoires comparées de l’Espagne franquiste et du Portugal salazariste dans les années 1960-1970», Natacha Lillo (ed.), Italiens, Espagnols et Portugais en France au XXe siècle, regards croisés. Publibook, Paris, 2008, pp.21-44; «La péninsule Ibérique et l’Europe: migrations et démocratisation», Nicolas Beaupré, Caroline Moine (eds.), L’Europe de Versailles à Maastricht. Visions, moments et acteurs des projets européens, Paris, Seli Arslan, 2007, pp. 203-216.