Appendix

Author biographies

Isabelle Albert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE). She is a consortium member of the key research area Migration and Inclusive Societies (MIS) and she is deputy study director of the Master in Gerontology. Her main research interests are in the fields of (cross-)cultural, life-span developmental and family psychology.

Karl Heinz Arenz studied catholic theology and history in Germany, France and Brazil (PhD in both disciplines)

Elisabeth Boesen is a senior researcher at the University of Luxembourg Institute for History. She holds a PhD in cultural and social anthropology from Bayreuth University. After several years of ethnographic research on problems of spatial mobility and rural development in the West African Sahel, she has been working in recent years on the SaarLorLux border region and on migration from lusophone countries to Luxembourg.

Cristina Cancela holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas. She is a full professor at the Federal University of Pará and an integrated researcher at the University of Lisbon. She has experience in Women's History, Family, Migration, Gender and Sexuality studies. She is vice-head of the CNPQ research group Population, Family and Migration in the Amazon. She is a CNPQ PQ-2 researcher

Joao Cosmé is adjunct professor in the department of history at the universidade de lisboa. he holds a phd in history. he is especially interested in demographic history. In this framework he has, among other things, worked on emigration to Brasil in late 19th century concentrating on migrants from particular localities in Portugal.

Thais França is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the Lisbon University Institute (CIES, ISCTE-IUL). She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her research expertise encompasses migration, mobilities, gender studies, social inequalities, and post-colonial studies. She is the Associate Editor of the Comparative Migration Studies journal and has published extensively on Brazilian immigration.

Kevin Goergen is a PhD researcher at the University of Luxembourg, interested in social history and history from below in Europe and Africa. He wrote his MA thesis at Freie Universität Berlin on the colonial state and resistance in Cameroon’s Cross-River region. His current research examines Luxembourg’s colonial entanglements with Sub-Saharan Africa (1880s–1970s), including through the lens of individual actors.

Carlo Krieger is a historian and journalist. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Luxembourg and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the history of migration, transnational connections, and the history of science. He has published extensively on the history

Régis Moes studied history at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris. He has published a monograph and numerous articles on Luxembourg's colonial history. From 2014 to 2024, he was curator for contemporary history at the Musée national d'archéologie, d'histoire et d'art (MNAHA) in Luxembourg. In this role, he notably curated a large exhibition about ‘Luxembourg's colonial past’ in 2022. Since 2025, he is Deputy Director of the MNAHA.

Antonio Otaviano Vieira Junior holds a doctorate in Social History from the University of São Paulo. He is a full professor at the Faculty of History of the Federal University of Pará and collaborating Researcher at the History Center of the University of Lisbon. He is leader of the Research Group Population, Family and Migration in Amazonia (RUMA). His research focuses on Population History in Portuguese America, with a special interest in demography, family, immigration, inquisition and in the Sertão region.

Beatriz Padilla is Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. She has led several projects on migration, refuge and cultural diversity. Her interests involve the Transatlantic region (Latin America, Europe & US) on issues of migration, public policy, health, gender, race/ethnicity, discrimination, and internationalization of higher education.

Dominique Santana is a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg. She holds degrees in history and art history from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the University of Luxembourg, and the University of São Paulo. Her PhD examined migration between Luxembourg and Brazil. Her projects include the transmedia work A Colônia Luxemburguesa and ongoing research on Radio Luxembourg. She aims to transform historical research and communication through innovative digital storytelling.

Bernardino Tavares born in Cape Verde, got his master’s degree in Anglo-American Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2012. He obtained his PhD in Sciences du Langage in 2018, with a focus on the sociolinguistics of Cape Verdean migration trajectories into Luxembourg, at the University of Luxembourg. He is a sociolinguist committed to a postcolonial and ethnographic inquiry lens. He has researched language, inequalities, and mobilities in/between the global south and Europe. As PI of the DisPOSEG project at University of Luxembourg (2021 – 2024) he researched lusophone migrants’ social and workplace interactions.