Dr Morgane Delaunay

Working Group 6 leader

Postdoc researcher

Centre for Comparative Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

Morgane Delaunay is a French historian and an integrated member of the Centre for Comparative Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon). She is currently the Co-PI of the FCT-funded project “ARCA – Digital archive of the history and memory of the returns from African colonies” (2023.10715.25ABR).

She holds a PhD in History in cotutelle from the Université Rennes 2 and the ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon), obtained with a full scholarship from the Région Bretagne. Her thesis is entitled “Le processus d’intégration des retornados au Portugal (1975-2018). Analyse comparée avec le cas français des pieds-noirs d’Algérie” and was approved with distinction in January 2020. Specialised in the Portuguese repatriates of the decolonisation of Angola and Mozambique, she published a monograph on the subject in August 2024 with the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Selected Publications:

Morgane Delaunay: Les retornados. Accueil et intégration des rapatriés de la décolonisation portugaise.. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, ISBN: 9782753595569.

Elsa Peralta, Morgane Delaunay, Bruno Góis: Portuguese (post-) imperial migrations: race, citizenship, and labour. In: Journal of Migration History, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 404–431, 2022.

Rui Pena Pires, Morgane Delaunay, Joao Peixoto: Trauma and the Portuguese repatriation: a confined collective identity. In: pp. 169–203, Springer, 2020.

Morgane Delaunay: The Jornal O Retornado’s Readers and the Construction of a Narrative of the Return from Africa (1975–1976). In: The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa, pp. 61–77, Routledge, 2021.