16th international Metropolis conference 12>>16 September 2011 MIGRATION FUTURES: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CHANGES Macau – port city, point of entry and point of departure of the Macanese Diaspora: a historical sketch Alfredo Gomes Dias

16th international Metropolis conference 12>>16 September 2011 MIGRATION FUTURES: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CHANGES Fig. 2 - Macao: c 1830 Fig. 3 - Macao: today Macau – port city, point of entry and point of departure of the Macanese Diaspora: a historical sketch Alfredo Gomes Dias Fig. 1 - Macao and Pearl River Delta

Macau – port city, point of entry and point of departure of the Macanese Diaspora: a historical sketch Alfredo Gomes Dias 16th international Metropolis conference 12>>16 September 2011 MIGRATION FUTURES: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CHANGES Fig. 4 - Phases of the Macanese Diaspora dispersion according to the locations of weddings (until 1995)

16th international Metropolis conference 12>>16 September 2011 MIGRATION FUTURES: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CHANGES Table 1 - Non Chinese Population of Macao ( ) YearsTOTAL Born in MacaoPortugueses Overseas Portuguese Possessions Other nationalities N%N%N%N% ,173516,11393,1781, ,561515,11774,41614, ,989623,31343,52446, ,890921,857713,83618, ,589118,6621,360112,6 Sources: Censuses of 1878, 1896, 1910, 1920 and Author's calculations. Macau – port city, point of entry and point of departure of the Macanese Diaspora: a historical sketch Alfredo Gomes Dias

Table 2 - Foreign population of Macao ( ) English Germans Spanish Italians Dutch12114 French Scots381 Danes4322 Prussians3 Swedes11 Irish23 Norwegians12 Russians115 Swiss1 Belgians7 Austrians6 Czech-Slovak2 Hungarians3 Poles3 EUROPEANS Moors Turks22 Siamese12 Japanese Filipinos23343 Syrians1 ASIANS AUSTRALIANS 1 AFRICANS (a) 1 Peruvians Chileans13 Cubans31 Ecuadorians1024 Brazilians111 Argentines1 Costa Ricans1 Guatemalans1 Mexicans40 Panamanians3 North American Canadians13 AMERICANS Unknown Rate of change (%) 20,0106,451,648,0 66,5 (a) From South Africa. Sources: Censuses of 1867, 1878, 1896, 1910, 1920 and Macau – port city, point of entry and point of departure of the Macanese Diaspora: a historical sketch Alfredo Gomes Dias 16th international Metropolis conference 12>>16 September 2011 MIGRATION FUTURES: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CHANGES