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Seminar April 28th, 2010, 17:00, CES-Lisboa, Picoas Plaza Free Entrance The consecration of political rights to immigrants residing in countries traditionally considered of immigration (namely in many European Union countries) during a long period of time was dismissed. That is, immigrants weren’t supposed to participate actively in the politics of the countries of the migrant destination. Generally, migrants are connoted with a economic relation, strongly structured by the hierarchic dependency established by the international labour division (Petras, 1981). In the last two decades there has been a change in the way of conceiving this subject both in the academic field as in politics, joining the discussion on the political dimension of immigrant mobilization, participation and representation (Martiniello, 2006). On the other hand, we cannot neglect the civic intervention that the immigrants have developed in destination countries. In the Portuguese case, the associative movement intervention has been visible. Associative intervention of immigrant origin began during the late 1970’s and beginning of the 1980’s, following the arrival of residents of the new independent countries having Portuguese for official language. During this launch of the proliferation of the associative movement, its intervention had a local profile aiming at overcoming the difficulties experienced by migrant populations. Indeed, the multiplicity of interactions, appears today in a complexity of social relations in the societies of origin and destination societies (Faist, 2000). Thus, we intend to evaluate in the context of this seminar, the possible impacts of migration at the level of decisions / conditions of formal political participation (active and passive in the context of local politics in the country of destination), at the level of civic action (under associative or alternative claim for recognition of rights), as well as the experiences of sociocultural and economic involvement (in the country of origin / in the destination country). Therefore we believe that in this framework, will be widely important to bring cross-readings between academia and civic movements, in order to widen the analysis to a central theme in societies. Moderator – Max Ruben Ramos (Institute of Social Sciences - UL) 17:00 Political Rights and immigrant Participation Spaces Carlos Elias Barbosa (Centre for Social Studies – UC) 17:20 Active Citizenship – Being a citizen beyond visas and borders Joana Sousa Ribeiro / Joana Areosa Feio (Centre for Social Studies – UC) Commentaries: 17:40 – Sónia Borges 17:50 – Carla Santos 18:00 - Debate - Project “Formal access to local political spaces in the local context: immigrant voters and elected in Portuguese municipalities and parishes”, of the Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation Research Group, of the Centre for social Studies of the University of Coimbra. - Project “Immigrant Families: a longitudinal study on Brazilians, Cape-Verdeans and Ukrainians in Portugal”, of the Migration Studies Research Group of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. Carlos Elias Barbosa Joana Sousa Ribeiro Joana Areosa Feio |