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International Migration from and to Portugal : What do we know and where are we going ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Baganha, María Ioannis B. Góis, Pedro Pereira, Pedro Telhado |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | At the beginning of the 1990s, official sources (IAECP 1991) estimated that there were more than four million Portuguese citizens living abroad. In that same year, the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Portuguese Immigration Service, hereinafter SEF) had records on 113,978 foreign nationals residing legally in Portugal. Adding this figure to the number of residency requests that were processed in the following year, we arrive at a total number of foreigners residing within the Portuguese borders (both legally and illegally) of about 150,000—which is to say, in 1991, foreigners accounted for 1.5 per cent of the resident population of Portugal, and Portuguese living abroad amounted to more than 40 per cent of the resident population. Despite what these numbers appear to tell us, it is common to find assertions in academic works and the press that Portugal has undergone a transformation from ‘emigration country’ to ‘immigration country’. Although paradoxical on the surface, there may in fact be some truth to these claims when we consider that the elevated number of Portuguese living abroad are there as a result of earlier migrations. However, our reading of the evidence (looking beyond the mere numbers cited above), leads us to the belief that emigration does in fact remain a hallmark of the overall Portuguese society. Whether legal or extra-legal, Portuguese emigration continues at a strong pace, while remittances from |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www3.uma.pt/ppereira/Eumi-121.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
