Treffen Tuesday

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new political and economic map of Eurasia also brought new migration dynamics to the entire region, even allowing the conceptualization of a new global model – the Eurasian Migration System. In this presentation, we will talk about the flows and destinations that have characterized these last three decades in the post-Soviet space and also beyond it, from the return to their origins of several ethnic minorities (Germans, Greeks, Koreans,…) to the labor migrations that are today the daily routine of countries such as Moldova or Tajikistan – not forgetting the refugee flows that have unfortunately characterized the recent history of the region…

About the Speaker

António Eduardo Mendonça is a Portuguese senior anthropologist, researcher in the area of Post-Soviet Migrations at the IGOT-UL (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon); he also taught at Universities in Portugal and in Turkiye. He was the coordinator of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference Geopolitics, Migrations and Identities in Central Eurasia (Lisbon, January 2025). His current research project deals with Central Asian migrants in Portugal and in Western European Countries.