Research

Current research interests

Migrações cabo-verdianas

Transnacionalismo

Imigração em Portugal

Sociologia da Etnicidade

Sociologia da Identidade

Migrações Brasileiras

Sociologia da Arte

Emigração portuguesa

Research Projects

2013 - 2015 - "Regresso ao futuro: a nova emigração e a relação com asociedade portuguesa", coordinated by João Peixoto (SOCIUS/ISEG/UL), sponsored by FCT.

2012 - 2013 - "Processos de admissão e de integração de imigrantes altamente qualificados em Portugal e a sua relação com a migração circular", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by ACIDI.

2012 - 2012 - "O Impacto das Políticas de Reagrupamento Familiar em Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by ACIDI.

2008-01-01 - 2009-07-15 - "Assessment of Brazilian Migration Patterns and Assisted Voluntary Return Programme from selected European Member States to Brazil", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by International Organisation for Migration.

2007 - 2009 - "Vagas Atlânticas: a Imigração Brasileira em Portugal", coordinated by João Peixoto (ISEG), sponsored by PTDC/SDE/68903/2006.

2006 - 2007 - "Estudo prospectivo sobre imigrantes qualificados em Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Immigration Observatory and the High-Commisary for Ethnic Minorities.
    Project Partnership:
              - José Carlos Marques .

2005 - 2007 - "'Migrants' transnational practices in Western Europe'", coordinated by in Portugal by Maria Baganha internationally by Gianni D'Amato do Forum Suisse pour l'étude des migrations et de la population, sponsored by POCTI/SOC/55646/2004.

2004 - 2006 - "Transnational Communities in a Globalized World'", coordinated by Forum Suisse pour l'étude des migrations et de la population.

2004 - 2005 - "When the ends touch each other - The Eastern European Immigrants in Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Foundation for Science and Technology within POCTI.

2002 - 2003 - "As novas vagas migratórias: Imigrantes do Leste em Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

2002 - 2002 - "Discrimination in the labour market", coordinated by NUMENA- Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon.
    Project Partnership:
              - José Carlos Marques

2001 - 2004 - "The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe (PEMINT). Project IHP-PROGRAM, CE/DG XII - Science Research and Development", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by HPSE-CT 2000-0059.

2001 - 2002 - "The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe (PEMINT)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Foundation for Science and Technology POCTI/42432/SOC/2001.

2000 - 2000 - ""Migrants and ethnic minorities on the margins. The interaction of economic, spatial and social factors in generating social exclusion"", coordinated by Malcom Cross, sponsored by Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies (CEMES) for the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia EUMC.

1999 - 2001 - "Processos de Globalização, Estratégias Adaptativas dos Migrantes na Redistribuição de Mão de Obra na Europa: o Papel Emergente das "Soft-Global Cities", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by PRAXIS XXI C/ SOC/13104/1998.

1997 - 1998 - ""Migrants Insertion in the Informal Economy. Deviant Behaviour and the Impact on the Receiving Societies" (Programa TSER CE/DG XII Science, Research and Development)", coordinated by Professor Maria Ioannis Baganha.

1995 - 1999 - "Um estudo sobre as práticas culturais no concelho de Aveiro 1999 Sub-projecto Associado a Culturas Urbanas e Imagens das Cidades: recursos, práticas e acontecimentos culturais em algumas cidades portuguesas integrado na investigação sobre A Sociedade Portuguesa Perante os Desafios da Globalização: Modernização Económica Social e Cultural", coordinated by Carlos Fortuna; Augusto Santos Silva, sponsored by MCES [2/2.1/CSH/637.95].

Networks

IMISCOE - Network of Excelence on International migration, integration and social cohesion (www.imiscoe.org)

killed migrations European research and policy network - SMEN (http://www.smiam.org)

METROPOLIS - An international forum for research and policy (http://www.international.metropolis.net)

REFORMAF - Reseau de Formation et de Recherche sur les migrations Africaines (http://www.reformaf.org)