Goa will always be linked with the Portuguese national pride and have a special place in their hearts and minds, specially with personalities like Alfredo Costa and António Costa, to mention just two of many, who have enriched the Portuguese metropolitan social and political scenes in recent times. Goa is part of the Portuguese orientalist construction, and more recently Ph.D theses in History, produced by children of Goan parents settled in Portugal, and guided by European experts, have presented Goa as na invented by Portugal. It is Christianized and Westernized product.
As a result of this continued myth-making there will continue to be an entry point for the Goans into Portugal, countering anything political moves against Goans seeking the Portuguese nationality, Portugal is not likely to close the tap by yielding to the British pressures, because apart from Goans entering UK with Portuguese nationality, many more thousands of ethnic Portuguese citizens are landing into UK every month, specially since the recent onset of the financial crisis affecting Portugal, exploiting the mobility under the EU rules.
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Goabilization, Globalization and Portuguese nationality
Goa will always be linked with the Portuguese national pride and have a special place in their hearts and minds, specially with personalities like Alfredo Costa and António Costa, to mention just two of many, who have enriched the Portuguese metropolitan social and political scenes in recent times. Goa is part of the Portuguese orientalist construction, and more recently Ph.D theses in History, produced by children of Goan parents settled in Portugal, and guided by European experts, have presented Goa as na invented by Portugal. It is Christianized and Westernized product.
As a result of this continued myth-making there will continue to be an entry point for the Goans into Portugal, countering anything political moves against Goans seeking the Portuguese nationality, Portugal is not likely to close the tap by yielding to the British pressures, because apart from Goans entering UK with Portuguese nationality, many more thousands of ethnic Portuguese citizens are landing into UK every month, specially since the recent onset of the financial crisis affecting Portugal, exploiting the mobility under the EU rules.
Goa will always be linked with the Portuguese national pride and have a special place in their hearts and minds, specially with personalities like Alfredo Costa and António Costa, to mention just two of many, who have enriched the Portuguese metropolitan social and political scenes in recent times. Goa is part of the Portuguese orientalist construction, and more recently Ph.D theses in History, produced by children of Goan parents settled in Portugal, and guided by European experts, have presented Goa as na invented by Portugal. It is Christianized and Westernized product.
As a result of this continued myth-making there will continue to be an entry point for the Goans into Portugal, countering anything political moves against Goans seeking the Portuguese nationality, Portugal is not likely to close the tap by yielding to the British pressures, because apart from Goans entering UK with Portuguese nationality, many more thousands of ethnic Portuguese citizens are landing into UK every month, specially since the recent onset of the financial crisis affecting Portugal, exploiting the mobility under the EU rules.