. This period is a major focus for historians studying the social constraints and poverty that fueled mass emigration from Portugal in the 1960s and 70s. The "Cardboard Suitcase" Symbolism
, a Portuguese singer who became an icon of the emigrant experience. A Mala De Cartao -1988- Episode 1
Joaquim places a crisp stack of bills on the table. Not the crumpled money Teresa was counting, but fresh, crisp bills. A Mala De Cartao -1988- Episode 1
: The episode depicts her early years in the Alentejo region of Portugal, a time marked by poverty and the strictures of the Salazar dictatorship. A Mala De Cartao -1988- Episode 1