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Inês Lourenço

CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Inês Lourenço, Ph.D., Anthropology (Iscte, University Institute of Lisbon), is a senior researcher at Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-Iscte). She is also an invited assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology at Iscte. Her main research is focused on the Indian Diaspora in Portugal, its processes of reproduction and cultural negotiation, of religious, social and gender adaptation. This research resulted from long-term fieldwork conducted in Portugal, complemented in India and in the UK. Other topics of interest are the consumption of Indian cultural commodities, such as Bollywood cinema and dance, and its related social uses in the Portuguese society. Her latest research project addresses the migrant heritage of communities of Indian origin in Portugal (Gujarati-Hindus and Muslims, Goan-catholics and Punjabi –Sikhs), in articulation between museology and anthropology. Her current research also focuses on issues related to South Asian migrant workers in Portugal.
Among her publications are: “Crossing past and present: heritage and identity among Hindu-Gujarati diaspora in Portugal”, S. Irudaya Rajan (org.), India Migration Report 2019. Diaspora in Europe, Routledge India, and “The Global Gujarati Hindu Diasporas”, in Knut Jakobsen (ed.), Hindu Diasporas (The Oxford History of Hinduism), Oxford University Press.

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