Connecting the Dots between Portugal’s Far Right Populism, Racism, and Xenophobia: Everyday Implications for Racialized Migrants

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Connecting the Dots between Portugal’s Far Right Populism, Racism, and Xenophobia: Everyday Implications for Racialized Migrants

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Connecting the Dots between Portugal’s Far Right Populism, Racism, and Xenophobia: Everyday Implications for Racialized Migrants

27 june | 9:30 am > 6 pm
Conference Room Jorge Gaspar
IGOT-ULisboa

This workshop examines the structural and everyday articulation of racial oppression, prejudice, and discrimination in Portugal as experienced by racialized people. Portugal prides itself on a problematic concept of “Lusotropicalism” contending that its population is not prejudiced towards people from its former colonies. Till June 2024, and unlike the rest of Europe, migrants, mostly racialized and coming from the Global South, were instrumentally wooed to fill the labour crisis in low-paying immigrant-niche sectors with easier pathways to legal work or residencies in Portugal. The sharp political rise of Chega, a right-wing populist party, headed by André Ventura, with political wins in the 2024 national elections, reveals a discontent within Portugal’s society about unemployment and a social welfare crisis. This has been mobilized as a discourse that racializes communities and blames them for societal ills and for threatening “native” cultural identity.

The panel emerges from empirical research undertaken by each panellist among different groups of racialized migrants and racialized Portuguese citizens. The findings theorize the intimate and gendered impact of the intersections of far-right populism with Islamophobia, Afrophobia, and racism/ racial prejudice. It connects the dots between structural racism institutionalized through policies and systemic racism experienced daily by racialized people as they engage in the gig economy, in agriculture, and/or in health care.

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27/06/2025 , 09:30-18:00

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Sala de Conferências Jorge Gaspar

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Alexandra Forra (CRIA-NOVA FCSH-ISCTE)

Ana Luisa Martinho (CEOS.PP/ISCAP-Politécnico do Porto)

Conceição Nogueira (Universidade do Porto)

Joana Bessa Topa (UMAIA)

José Mapril (CRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Mariana Holanda Rusua (Universidade do Porto)

Marta Vilar Rosales (ICS- Universidade de Lisboa)

Nina Amelung (ICS-Universidade de Lisboa)

Pedro Almeida (CRIA-Iscte)

Reena Kukreja (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canadá)

Sohel Rahman (Filmmaker)

Sofia Aboim (ICS-Universidade de Lisboa) Sónia Ferreira

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