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João Sardinha
João Sardinha has a D.Phil. from the University of Sussex and a master’s from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is currently an invited researcher on the European Research Council project ‘The colour of labour: The racialized lives of migrants’ (ERC Advanced Grant 695573 – COLOUR) based at Lisbon University’s Social Science Institute (ICS-UL), where he works on Portuguese-Guyanese emigration to Canada. His research interests span migrant descendant return migration; theories of identity, belonging and transnationalism as applied to diasporic youth; immigrant associative phenomenon; geographies of ethno-cultural manifestations and popular culture; lifestyle migrations and rurality; and qualitative research methodologies and migration studies. His recent publications include ‘“Even if the only thing for me to do were to milk cows”: Portuguese-Canadian descendant returnees narrate constructions of return desires’, Diasporas, 17:3, pp. 316–39 (2014); ‘Securing networks or networks of security? Portuguese emigrant descendant returnees negotiate transnational positionings’, Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 2:2, pp. 413–32 (2014); ‘“Portugal dos Xutos”: Portuguese music in the lives of “returned” descendants of Portuguese emigrants from Canada’, in J. Sardinha and R. Campos (eds) (2016), Transglobal Sounds: Music, Identity and Migrant Descendants, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 179–200; and ‘“This country plays tricks on you”: Portuguese migrant descendant returnees narrate economic crisis-influenced “returns”’ (with D. Cairns), in Z. Vathi and R. King (eds) (2017), Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families, London: Routledge, pp. 93–107.