Portuguese Colonial State Incarceration: The Life and Times of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Deportados on Timor

Seeking to offer new interpretations on the life and times of Portuguese political deportees, this article focuses upon the remote Southeast Asian half-island colony of Timor as part of a far-flung network of prisons carried through under the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Firs...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2018
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40057/2627
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Summary:Seeking to offer new interpretations on the life and times of Portuguese political deportees, this article focuses upon the remote Southeast Asian half-island colony of Timor as part of a far-flung network of prisons carried through under the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. First, it looks back at the political and economic instability in Portugal following the military coup of May 1926 ending the First Republic. Drawing upon newly available documentation, the article examines two waves of deportees from Portugal arriving in Timor, youthful activists involved in anarcho-syndicalist activities in the 1912–1927 period, and a more senior leadership group involved in a failed military coup of August 1931. It then tracks the reactions of the
ISSN:1682-1106