RESEARCH CHALLENGES WITH RECENT MIGRATORY FLOWS: PORTUGUESE AND LUSO-AFRICANS IN SÃO PAULO

Abstract

This article focuses on the current challenges that researches which nowaday are studyng the migration of Portuguese and Lusitain-Africain groups to São Paulo have to face. The studied period is after the Second World War, especially the decades of 70 and 80. At this moment to the economical motivation-always present-it must be added the political pressure of difficult and complex Portuguese and Africain realities that were important for the determination of these displacements, so different from the ones of the previous migrations fluxes. The aim of this text is to explore the complex webs involved with these immigrant´s coming from Africa and Portugal in this period, their insertion in the society of São Paulo and the relationship they set up with the ond and established Portuguese "colony" that lived in São Paulo. The difficulties and the options for the approach of this theme are also discussed.