Collaborator . Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
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Marina Simões Galvanese is a historian specializing in Portuguese contemporary history, migration, and migration policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She holds a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo and an MA in Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP–Assis), where she investigates the indentured immigration of Portuguese migrants to Rio de Janeiro between 1830 and 1860 from a transnational perspective. She is a researcher in the CNPq-funded Universal Project (402639/2025-1), “On the Routes of the Oceans: Ships, Crews, and Workers in the Expansion of Global Capitalism (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries),” coordinated by Gladys Sabina Ribeiro (Fluminense Federal University). Her research focuses on Portuguese migration, imperial networks, and labor mobility in the Atlantic world. She has published several articles, such as: The creation and failure of a bill: Sá da Bandeira and the attempt to regulate Portuguese emigration to Brazil, 1835-1860 (Varia História, 35(69), 2019); T ports and in cabinets: representatives of the Brazilian Empire and the incentive to Portuguese emigration to Brazil, 1835-1860 (Almanack, 38, 2024); At the crossroads of Empires: Azoreans and Madeirans in Brazil and the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century (International Review of Social History, 1st view, 2026).
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