About
Research Context
Cape Verde | Portugal | Capeverdian diasporic space | Lusophone space
Research Interests
Social psychology | Diaspora and transnationalism | Mobilities
Institutional Subunit
ISCTE
Biographical Note
Iolanda Évora, PhD in Social Psychology (USP, Brazil), is a researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA/ISEG), under the Science Program 2008 of the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT). Initially, she conducted research about women from Cape Verde in Italy. More recently, she has been studying health/immigration-related issues, namely aspects of the perceptions and attitudes of young people towards HIV/AIDS. She is currently coordinating a research group on contemporary relations between the Cape Verdean diaspora and the country of origin. She is also involved in research teams on transnationalism processes in contexts of informal work such as fairs and markets in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. She teaches courses in Social Psychology and Qualitative Methodology. In 2005, she co-organised the book "Gender and Cape Verdean Migrations".
