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- Balanço de três dias de seminárioPublication . Carmo, Hermano
- Active civic participation of immigrants in PortugalPublication . Teixeira, Ana; Albuquerque, RosanaPortugal’s historical past strongly influences the composition of the country’s immigrant population. The main third-country foreign nationals in Portugal originate traditionally from Portuguese-speaking African countries (namely Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea Bissau, and S. Tomé e Príncipe) and Brazil. In 2001, a newly created immigrant status entitled “permanence” authorization uncovered a quantitative and a qualitative change in the structure of immigrant population in Portugal. First, there was a quantitative jump from 223.602 foreigners in 2001 to 364.203 regularized foreigners in 2003. Secondly, there was a substantial qualitative shift in the composition of immigrants. The majority of the new immigrants began coming from Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, and the Russian Federation. Thus, European countries outside the E.U. zone now rank second (after African countries) in their contribution of individuals to the stocks of immigrant population in Portugal. The differences between the new and traditional immigration flows are visible in the geographical distribution of immigrants and in their insertion into the labour market. While the traditional flows would congregate around the metropolitan area of Lisbon and in the Algarve, the new migratory flows tend to be more geographically dispersed and present in less urbanized areas of Portugal. In terms of insertion in the labour market, although the construction sector is still the most important industry for immigrant labour, Eastern European workers may also be found in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. The institutional conditions that encourage immigrants’ civic participation are divided at three different levels: the state, the local, and the civil society levels. At the state level, the High Commissioner for Migrations and Ethnic Minorities is the main organizational structure along with a set of interrelated initiatives operating under specific regulatory frameworks, which act as mediators between state officials and the Portuguese civil society, and more specifically, immigrant communities. At the local level, some municipalities created consultative councils and municipal departments aiming at encouraging the participation and representation of interests from immigrant groups and association in local policies. In the civil society sphere, the main actors in Portugal spurring immigrants civic participation are immigrant associations, mainstream associations directed toward immigration topics, and unions. The legal conditions framing immigrants’ access to social housing, education, health, and social security in Portugal are also considered to be positive. Conditions restricting immigrants’ civic participation are mainly normative and include the Portuguese nationality law, the regulations shaping the political participation of immigrants, namely in what concerns their right to vote, and employment regulations restricting immigrants’ access to public administration positions. Part II of the report focuses on the active civic participation of third country immigrants. First, reasons for the lack of research on this issue in Portugal are explained. On the one hand, the recent immigration history and the more urgent needs regarding school and economic integration kept this issue out of the research spotlight. On the other hand, it was just in the beginning of the 1990s that immigrants took the very first steps toward collective mobilisation. Secondly, the literature review of Portuguese bibliography covers research on third country immigrants’ associative movement, research on local authorities’ policies and discussion about ethnic politics and political mobilisation of immigrants in Portugal. As political mobilisation of these groups has been made mainly through ethnic and/or migrant organisations, a brief history of immigrants' associative movement is given. Immigrant associations develop multiple roles, covering the social, the cultural, the economic and the political domains. Political claiming for the regularisation of illegal immigrants has been a permanent and important field of intervention since the mid-1990s. Research results reveal the com5 plex relations between ethnic mobilisation and the set of legal and institutional frameworks developed by local and national governmental authorities targeted to the incorporation of minority groups. Case studies on the Oeiras district and on the Amadora district are then presented. Conclusions underline that the most active immigrant groups are those from Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, since these groups have constituted a higher number of ethnic associations, give priority to political claiming and present a more politicised discourse. Reflecting on the future of research on civic participation of third country immigrants in Portugal, the authors state that it would be interesting and relevant to compare the Portuguese situation with those of other European countries, with an older immigration history, and analyse how the Portuguese immigrants’ associative movement will be affected by a changing legal framework and the emergence of new opportunities within the set of structures regarding the political participation of minority groups.
- Inquérito a ex-estudantes da Licenciatura em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Aberta: avaliação do nível de satisfação e das saídas profissionaisPublication . Alves, Fátima; Carmo, Hermano; Nunes, PedroO presente estudo foi desenvolvido entre Janeiro e Setembro de 2010 com o objectivo de avaliar as saídas profissionais da Licenciatura em Ciências Sociais e seus minores, e ainda o de perceber o impacto do curso nos/nas estudantes já graduados, com vista à melhoria do serviço prestado pela universidade e pelo departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão relativamente à oferta do curso de Ciências Sociais. O inquérito foi aplicado a uma amostra de ex-estudantes do curso e em termos globais incide sobre uma série de variáveis que pretendem medir o grau de satisfação dos ex-estudantes em relação ao curso, bem como a eficácia do mesmo em termos da inserção dos alunos no mercado de trabalho.
- Relatório final do Projecto Trajectórias, da dependência à reinserção: estudo de trajectórias sociais de toxicodependentes após processo terapêuticoPublication . Henriques, Susana; Candeias, PedroO presente relatório dá conta dos resultados do projeto de investigação Trajetórias da dependência à integração – estudo das trajetórias sociais de toxicodependentes após processo terapêutico. Com estes resultados pretendemos contribuir para a compreensão e explicação acerca da complexa realidade da reintegração social de dependentes de substâncias psicoativas, após a passagem por um processo de tratamento numa comunidade terapêutica.
- Resultados do questionário aos percursos laborais e de vida dos licenciados da UAb : relatório síntesePublication . Abrantes, Pedro; Bäckström, Bárbara; Neves, Claudia; Jacquinet, Marc; Magano, Olga; Henriques, Susana
- Percursos profissionais e de vida dos licenciados da UAbPublication . Abrantes, Pedro; Bäckström, Bárbara; Falé, Isabel; Henriques, Susana; Jacquinet, Marc; Magano, Olga; Neves, Claudia; Ramos, Maria do Rosário; Silva, Ana Paula
- Percursos profissionais e de vida dos licenciados da UAbPublication . Abrantes, Pedro; Silva, Ana Paula; Bäckström, Bárbara; Neves, Claudia; Falé, Isabel; Jacquinet, Marc; Ramos, Maria do Rosário; Magano, Olga; Henriques, Susana
- Projeto de Mediadores Municipais e Interculturais: relatório de avaliação finalPublication . Magano, Olga; Mendes, Maria Manuela
- Experiências e trajetórias dos mestres e doutores da Universidade Aberta (2011- 2020)Publication . Abrantes, Pedro; Carvalho, Alda; Silva, Ana Paula; Bäckström, Bárbara; Seabra, Filipa; Falé, Isabel; Jacquinet, Marc; Ramos, Maria do Rosário; Magano, OlgaO presente relatório apresenta os primeiros resultados do inquérito aos mestres e doutorados da Universidade Aberta, com base no questionário aplicado entre março e abril de 2023, abrangendo os diplomados do 2.º e 3.º ciclos, entre 2011 e 2020. Foram obtidas 431 respostas, de um universo de 1375 graduados, o que corresponde a 31% dos mestres e 44% dos doutorados. Desta forma, o Observatório dos Percursos Profissionais e de Vida dos Diplomados da Universidade Aberta alarga o seu campo de análise, até ao momento centrado nas experiências e trajetórias dos licenciados da instituição, acompanhando também a estratégia da instituição para ampliar e consolidar a sua oferta pedagógica ao nível dos mestrados e doutoramentos.
- Interdependencies of societies and nature in democratic innovations for the ecological transitionPublication . Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Alves, FátimaNature has been understood as a condition of opposition to the organization of social life, according to Latour (2004), reporting symbolically and practically to non-human elements in nature/culture collectives that vary according to the relative positions of each one. Bearing this in mind, the European Green Deal (EGD) transition pathway is a major challenge for Europe, whose ambition requires joint efforts to articulate diverse contexts and visions of humans/nature collectives and relations. The challenge is to understand and consider the social construction of nature and the environment, as contextual, produced by a web of different dimensions interrelated and interdependent, comprising different meanings that condition the implementation of EGD’s measures.