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Mental health, morbidity and mortality of African immigrant communities in Portugal: implications for primary care

This chapter aims to relate different aspects of migrants’ self-perception with perspectives held by medical professionals relating to mental disorders and the health seeking behaviour among African migrant communities resident in Portugal. Placing the discussion on mental illness and migration in a public health framework, the chapter first provides an overview of the literature on […]
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Death on the Move: managing narratives, silences and constraints in a trans-national perspective

The chapters of this book analyse different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, by deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical (Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil, Bangladesh and China) and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also […]
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Taxing the Natives’: fiscal administration, labour and crop cultivation in Portuguese Guinea (1900-1945)

The present chapter focuses on the question of direct ‘native’ taxation in former Portuguese Guinea – current Guinea Bissau – from its introduction in the early 1900s to the end of WWII. It deals with different political contexts, starting with the military campaigns waged by the Portuguese with increasing intensity from the 1890s, and ending […]
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Introdution

This book addresses a notable gap in the knowledge of Portuguese colonial administration and the policies implemented in the main territories of its “third” African empire: Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. In recent years, the question of colonial taxation has become a topic in the academic debate on colonial empires and has led to a comparative, […]
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Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference […]
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About GHTM

GHTM is a R&D Unit that brings together researchers from IHMT with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International/Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal's role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. Our evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

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