Sofia Afonso

Sofia Afonso (1967) is the founding partner and commercial director of the cultural company: Livraria 100ª Página (Braga). PhD in Sociology (UMinho) with the thesis Narratives of return and artistic projections: a reflection on the second generation. She was professor at the Institute of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Minho between 1991 and 2012. Her areas of interest are several, among others: Portuguese emigration; second generation; return migrations; frontier studies; arts-based research; biographical narratives, post-colonial studies; cross-cultural studies, sociology of culture.