Panel 22: Mobilities, Migrations and Transnational Networks (EN)

Chair:

Paulo Sousa Pinto, CHAM-NOVA FCSH

This panel brings together different case studies that examine how mobility, migration, and shifting regimes of power reshaped societies across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. By analysing islands, families, and migrant communities as nodes of circulation, the panel collectively illuminates how political change, economic opportunity, and human mobility interacted to transform social hierarchies and identities across imperial spaces. It also reveals how communities navigated and shaped the constraints and opportunities of their political environments. By foregrounding mobility as both a structural force and a lived experience, the panel contributes to a deeper understanding of social transformation across connected maritime and imperial worlds.

Keywords: Mobility; Migration; Social Transformation; Imperial Networks; Identities