Lisbon and her Port as a Gateway to the Multi Gateway to the Multi

Lisbon and her Port as a
Gateway to the MultiMulti-Cultural
and Multi
Multi--Civilizational World
Moisés Silva Fernandes, Ph.D.
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(moises.fernandes@reitoria.ul.pt)
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Background
d iinformation
f
ti
ƒ The Tagus estuary
is the largest in
Western Europe. It
has nearly 320
K ²
Kms².
ƒ The Port of Lisbon
has always been
i
important
since
i
ancient times.
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Background
d iinformation
f
ti
ƒ In the leading process
of transforming the
Atlantic into a familiar
Ocean Lisbon played a
Ocean,
key role as a port-city,
has legend had it, was
founded by Ulysses,
the Greek hero.
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Background
d iinformation
f
ti
ƒ In the 12th century the
Tagus river was so rich in
fish, that common people
said that only 1/3 of the
river was water.
ƒ This applied also to gold.
p
The crown and the scepter
of King Dinis, who ruled
y, was made
in 13th century,
of gold extracted from the
river banks.
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Background
d iinformation
f
ti
ƒ Due to her privileged
location at the mouth
of the Tagus,
Tagus Lisbon
Lisbon’ss
city-port kept
developing until it
turned into a major
worldwide centre in
the 15th and 16th
centuries.
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Background
d iinformation
f
i
ƒ From her port
hundreds of ships
flying the Portuguese
flag set out in quest
of new worlds.
ƒ Lisbon became a
gateway to a MultiMulti
Cultural and MultiCi ili i l World.
Civilizational
W ld
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Background
d iinformation
f
ti
ƒ In these two centuries,
Li b ’ population
Lisbon’s
l i
was made up
p of
peoples from different
places in the world
world.
ƒ According to several
scholars, nearly 10% of
the residents were from
other parts of the
world.
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Current
t situation
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ƒ Although Portugal and the Lisbon portcity has lost the preeminence of the
15th and 16th centuries,
centuries with the influx
g
from various pparts of the
of immigrants
world since the mid-1990s, Lisbon has
become once again the gateway to a
Multi-Cultural and Multi-Civilizational
World.
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Current
t situation
it ti
ƒ The 1998 Lisbon World
Exposition was held under
the theme “The Oceans: An
Heritage for the Future
Future”.
ƒ It had nearly 11 million
visitors in 132 days.
ƒ It led to the successful
redevelopment of a 5 Kmwide strip in the eastern part
of Lisbon by the Tagus
river.
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Current
t situation
it ti
ƒ As of 2007, 188,516
foreign nationals had
residence in the Greater
Lisbon Metropolitan
Area, which represents
8 44% of the total
8,44%
population.
ƒ On
O th
the other
th hand,
h d this
thi
represents nearly
43 26% off the
43,26%
h 435,736
435 736
that resided in Portugal.
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Current
t situation
it ti
Breakdown of Immigrants in Lisbon,
Lisbon 2007
Asia; 12
12.212
212
Americas;
31.380
Africa;;
93.240
Europe;
51.510
Source: Home Affairs Office
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Current
t situation
it ti
ƒ The First Meeting of the Port
Authorities of the Community of
Portuguese-speaking Countries took
place
l
on 25th and
d 26th September
S t b
2008 in Oporto, in the northern part
of Portugal.
ƒ Eight Portuguese-speaking
Portuguese speaking countries
attended this meeting and they
agreedd tto strengthen
t
th links
li k amongstt
Port Authorities and to reinforce
common technical standards.
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F th readings
Further
di
BOXER, Charles R. (1963), Race Relations in
the Portuguese Colonial Empire,
Empire 1415
14151825, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
MARQUES, M. Margarida and Francisco
Li da
Lima
d Costa
C t (2007),
(2007) “B
“Building
ildi a Market
M k t
of Ethnic References: Activism and
Diversity in Multicultural Settings in
Lisbon” in Tourism,
Tourism Ethnic Diversity and
the City, Jan Rath, ed., London, Routledge,
pp. 181-197.
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MOREIRA, G
MOREIRA
Graça (2006)
(2006), “C
“Cultural
lt l
g g Lisbon” in
Divisions in a Changing
Migration and Cultural Inclusion in the
European City
City, William J.V.
J V Neill and
Hanns-Uve Schwedler, eds., London,
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 234-240.
ROGERS, Alisdair and Jean Tillie, eds.,
(2001) Multicultural Policies and Modes of
(2001),
Citizenship in European Cities, Aldershot,
Ashgate.
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