While informal settlements in Portugal are not a recent phenomenon, planning and housing
policy responses and results have been inconsistent. In 2012, the Amadora Municipality …

This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and
postcolonial immigrants in Lisbon's periphery from the 1970s to the present. Cyborg does …

Este artigo parte da etnografia realizada junto da população hindu de um bairro nas franjas
da cidade de Lisboa. Tal como dezenas de outros conjuntos residenciais de construção …

Esta tese tem como objectivo analisar as dinâmicas da mobilidade de missionários e
pastores nazarenos cabo-verdianos para a África continental e Portugal. Partindo de uma …

In social sciences, new patterns of migration and the related living realities have mostly
been looked at from the perspective of'integration'and, more recently,'development'. Less …

In 2012, during an investigation on Brazilian immigrants in Lisbon, one of my interviewees
Lúcia took me on a visit to Arroios, the neighborhood where she lived and which she …

In Portugal, South Asians are a well-settled community in general, although some still live in
deprived conditions. In the context of the Hindu families living in Portugal, a relatively large …

O programa especial de realojamento (PER) realojou milhares de famílias de bairros em
habitação social especialmente construída para substituir os então chamados “bairros de …

In social sciences, new patterns of migration and the related living realities have mostly
been looked at from the perspective of 'integration'and, more recently,'development'. Less …

In early 2011, during my fieldwork on the Cape Verde islands, I attended the funeral of
Luísa, 1 the mother of my friend Carina. Luísa was born on São Vicente Island, but spent …