Monday, October 3, 2011 17:42
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Miguel Moniz
BIOGRAFICAL NOTES
Miguel Moniz resides in Lisbon where he is a Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT grant recipient as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, CRIA-ISCTE. With area specialties in race, ethnicity and the nation Moniz current work examines migration, local identity, and personal interest as they come into conflict with and are mediated by legal frameworks, bureaucracies and institutions at the state level and within larger economic and political networks.
Moniz field research and intellectual engagement has centered on such networks as they exist within the United States and North America in general, the Transatlantic region, with emphasis on historical and contemporary movement of Lusophone communities among it; and Lisbon and continental Portugal as a locale and the European Union with an emphasis on in-migration to Portugal.
As a Fulbright Fellow, Moniz examined US and Canadian deportation practices of permanent residents in the Azores as part of a life-long interest and study of the movement of Azorean migrants to, from and among New England and the mid-Atlantic archipelago.
Moniz’ published work includes the Azores edition of the World Bibliographical Series (Azores: Oxford: ABC-CLIO) and publications on his major themes of intellectual focus on the intersection of cultural and personal identity, the law, and the authority of the state (2009, The Shadow Minority. An ethnohistory of Portuguese and Lusophone racial identity in North America. In Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard. Klimt and da Costa Holton, eds. North Dartmouth, MA: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Portuguese in the Americas Series; 2008, Adaptive Transnational Identity and the Selling of Soccer: The New England Revolution and Lusophone Migrant Populations. In Globalised Football: Nations and migration the city and the dream. Tiesler and Coelho, eds. London and New York: Taylor & Francis-Routledge). A native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Moniz recieved the PhD in Anthropology from Brown University and dual undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and English Literature at Wesleyan.
