Morgane Delaunay is a French historian specialized in European colonial and post-colonial history. She dedicated the last four years working on the repatriation of Portuguese and French settlers during the decolonization process of Angola, Mozambique and Algeria. She holds a PhD degree in Modern and Contemporary History, concluded, with a three years’ scholarship from the Région Bretagne, at the Université Rennes 2 (France) and the ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal) in January 2020. Her PhD thesis, entitled “Le processus d’intégration des retornados au Portugal (1975-2018). Analyse comparée avec le cas français des pieds-noirs d’Algérie”, was approved by unanimity with distinction. She holds a professional Master degree in International Migrations concluded in 2015 at the Université Poitiers (France), a research Master degree in History and International and Intercultural Relations concluded in 2014 at the Université Rennes 2 (France), as well as a Bachelor degree in History and Political Sciences, concluded in 2012 at the Université Rennes 2 (France). Morgane Delaunay took part in many scientific events in France, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, and United Kingdom, such as the international conference “Narratives of Forced Migration in the Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries” organized by the Stirling University (United Kingdom) in 2019, during which she co-organized a panel on the Portuguese repatriated population, and presented a paper entitled “Portugal and the return of the settlers from Africa (1975-2019)”. She also was invited to take part in the conferences ‘Déracinés, exilés, rapatriés? Fins d’empires coloniaux et migrations’ (2018) and ‘Déracinés, exilés, rapatriés ? S’organiser, transmettre, mettre en récit’ (2019), both organized by the Université Sorbonne and the École Polytechnique de Paris. Morgane Delaunay is the author of the article “La question des retornados dans le débat parlementaire portugais (1975-1976)” published in 2019 by the Portuguese Studies Review. She is also the author of three book’s chapters, as well as the co-author of a chapter published in 2020 in the book The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization. Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination, by Palgrave Macmillan. The chapter is entitled "Trauma and thePortuguese Repatriation: A Confined Collective Identity".