We are pleased to include this special issue in the IJPD publications for 2014. It is our hope that this selection of essays illustrates further intellectual landscapes and landforms of the Portuguese diaspora. The Special Volume may be accessed through the following link:
http://portuguese-diaspora-studies.com/index.php/ijpds
SPECIAL ISSUE
GUEST EDITORS João Sardinha, Emanuel da Silva, and Sandra Silva
INTRODUCTION
Portuguese Migrations: Second-Generation Studies -Sandra Silva, Emanuel da Silva, João Sardinha (301-312)
I. THE MEDIA’S ROLE IN NEGOTIATING ETHNO-CULTURAL IDENTITIES
Media Representations and Second-Generation Discourses: The Nuanced Identities of Portuguese Descendants in France -José Ricardo Pinto Carvalheiro (317-337)
Media e Migrações: A Língua Enquanto Património Identitário na Produção de Conteúdos Mediáticos na Diáspora -Sónia Ferreira (339-358)
II. CHALLENGING TRANSNATIONAL, LINGUISTIC, AND GENDERED BOUNDARIES
Quase Despercebidos: Identidade, Pertença e Participação Social de Crianças Portuguesas e Lusodescendentes na Alemanha -Angela Nunes (363-386)
Labored Masculinity: Class, Gender, and the Educational Choices and Attitudes of Young Men of Portuguese Ancestry in Toronto (David Amorim Pereira 389-410)
III. COUNTER-DIASPORIC MOBILITIES
Securing Networks or Networks of Security? Portuguese Emigrant Descendant Returnees Negotiate Transnational Positioninings -João Sardinha (413-432)
Confrontação com o País de Origem e Redefinição das Identificações: Descendentes de Migrantes Portugueses no Contexto Intraeuropeu (França-Portugal) – Irène dos Santos (433-459)