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Three studies of the Portuguese diaspora in North America

Portuguese immigrants have not been the topic of a significant body of research in the study of international migration. Accordingly, their experience is not part of popular and academic consciousness. The publication of these three books, however, is destined to change that. Exploring this population through a variety of disciplines and methods, in light of several social, geographical and historical contexts, with an awareness of the population’s internal diversity, these volumes provide a wealth of information on the group. In addition, because of their background and period of settlement, Portuguese immigrants in North America share features with both European migrants of the early twentieth century and third world migrants of the late twentieth century, making their experience an ideal test case for assessing a catalogue of widely held assumptions about the circumstances of ‘old’ versus ‘new’ immigrants. Features associated with the white ethnic groups who built communities in Eastern North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include their Southern European origins, Catholic religion and creation of insular ‘urban villages’ in New England and Eastern Canada. Further, Portuguese find employment in agricultural labour, construction, factories and domestic service. In contrast, the characteristics the Portuguese share with recent migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America consist of their arrival since the 1960s; their immersion in cultural practices from the Iberian Peninsula; and their