Position: Integrated researcher without doctoral degree

Academic background: Degree in History; Master’s in African Studies

Research Group: MIGRARE

Email: paula.pinto@campus.ul.pt

Research interests: Migration and Development, migrant transnational practices; diaspora institutions.

ORCID: 0000-0001-6319-1711

Ciência Vitae: 3819-090A-7749

Biosketch

Wrote a dissertation discussing the relationship between tradition and modernity in Guinea-Bissau from the perspective of the impacts of specific cultural frameworks on development. Currently dedicated to the development of his doctoral thesis where discusses the potential of migration in the development of communities of origin, specifically through collective remittances.