Morgane Delaunay is a Post-doc researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies. She is a French historian specialized in colonial and post-colonial history. She holds a PhD degree from the Université Rennes 2 and the ISCTE-IUL, achieved with a grant from the Région Bretagne. Her doctoral dissertation, approved in January 2020, is entitled "Le processus d’intégration des retornados au Portugal (1975-2018). Analyse comparée avec le cas français des pieds-noirs d’Algérie.". She was an invited assistant professor at the ISCTE-IUL in 2020.
She joined the CEC-Comp in 2022 in the framework of the project "Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering" (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021) coordinated by Elsa Peralta. She is the co-organizer, with Jonas Prinzleve, of the seminar cycle Memory, Culture and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Nations in the framework of the Research Line Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. In addition, she is a member, since 2022, of the Cost Action HIDDEN.
Areas of research
Contemporary History
Colonialism and Post-colonialism
Repatriations of Decolonisation
Post-colonial migrations
Selected publications
Delaunay, M. (2024). Les retornados. Accueil et intégration des repatries de la décolonisation portugaise. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Peralta, E; M. Delaunay & B. Góis (2022). “Portuguese (Post-)Imperial Migrations: Race, Citizenship, and Labour”, Journal of Migration History 8: 404–431.
Delaunay, M. (2022). "Portugal e o regresso dos colonos de Angola e Moçambique: Resposta governativa e memória"CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios 44: 87-103. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/cct/article/view/25441
Delaunay, M. (2021). "The Jornal o Retornado's readers and the construction of a narrative of the return from Africa (1975-1976)". In The Retornados From Portuguese Colonies in Africa Narrative, Memory, and History, edited by Peralta, Elsa. Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Pires, R P; M. Delaunay & J. Peixoto(2019). "Trauma and the Portuguese Repatriation: A Confined Collective Identity". In The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization, edited by Eyerman, Ron; Sciortino, Giuseppe, 169-203. Springer International Publishing.
Delaunay, M. (2019). "La question des retornados dans le débat parlementaire portugais (1975-1976)". Portuguese Studies Review, 27 (1): 177-199.
