Pamila Gupta is a senior researcher based at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her current research looks at Goan migration, Portuguese decolonization, islandness, and cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean; Portuguese colonial nostalgia and tourism in Mozambique; and class, community, and whiteness among the Portuguese diaspora in Johannesburg.