Holding a PhD degree in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) and the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED, Paris), with the thesis "Self-reported bilingual outcomes and language acculturation among descendants of Turkish immigrants in France, Germany and the Netherlands" (https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/7658, funded with a Marie Curie Fellowship, a PhD grant from FCT, and a short term grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG) to visit the Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI, Sciences Po) - an international comparison of language and integration policies framed in the international TIES project (The Integration of the European Second Generation). During my research experience, since 2003, I have been working in the intersection between sociology of international migration and sociology of language, focusing on immigrants and their descendants in Europe and in Portugal, comparing policies on immigration, social and linguistic integration, and more recently on bilingual and linguistic educational programs, and language policies at several ... [ver mais]