Home is the Journey-Tales from Portugal's Diasporas with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz. Conversations about Portugal and the communities around the world shaped by movements, migrations, and mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, beyond, and back again.
In the weekly English language podcast Miguel and Gil host fun and entertaining but critically insightful conversations with news making guests in the arts, culture, literature, history, current events, sports, politics, business, journalism, etc., highlighting different themes related to Portugal, immigration, immigrant communities, and the global impact of these many Diasporas.
Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gilberto Fernandes (York University) are two public facing scholars with common interests in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Living in Portugal since the mid 1990s, Moniz was born and raised in an Azorean and Cape Verdean enclave on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and has a PhD from Brown University. Fernandes grew up in the greater Lisbon area has lived in Canada for over 20 years. He studied at ISCTE and has a PhD from York University.
Opening and closing themes and incidental music are by Farra Fanfarra, appearing courtesy of the Farra Fanfarra Cultural Association. Look for these songs and more music from Portugal's favorite brass band at farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com and wherever you stream and purchase music.
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Websites for Miguel and Gil: miguelmoniz.com gilbertofernandes.ca
Instagram: @miguelmonizlisboa @rapaz.gil
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