How does the creation and maintenance of archives by migrant and refugee communities contribute to integration in host countries, to strengthening a sense of community far from their countries of origin, anchored in shared memories, or to the protection and assertion of social rights?

These are just two of the questions that the citizen science project ‘Migrant memory: archives of migrant and refugee communities in Portugal’ will seek to answer, as IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa explained today to participants at the 2025 National Citizen Science Meeting (ENCC, from the Portuguese acronym for Encontro Nacional de Ciência Cidadã), which continues tomorrow at the Templo da Poesia in Oeiras, dedicated to the theme of Communities, Equity and Social Justice.

The scientific poster, co-authored with Maria de Lurdes Rosa, also a researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST, presents a research project, still in its early stages, involving migrant and refugee communities in Portugal in the study of the impacts and enhancement of their archives.

You can download the poster in PDF format using the button on the right.