MARIA IZILDA SANTOS DE MATOS: MEMORIES, STORIES AND INTELLECTUAL TRAJECTORY

The interview conducted with Maria Izilda Santos de Matos records the life and intellectual trajectory of the teacher and researcher, daughter of Portuguese immigrants, highlighting memories, histories, research, theoretical-methodological assumptions, and contributions related to the theme of e/immigration. In the beginning, she recovers her family memory, her childhood studies in São Paulo, the option for History as a career in teaching, the student experience at the USP, the choice for postgraduate studies, the conciliation between teaching and research. Afterwards, she reconstructs her academic path as a professor at PUC/SP and her participation in development agencies and in the formation of national and international research groups, commenting on her important work, and how the studies on e/immigration were incorporated to its universe of investigation.