The group brings together researchers working on migration and ethnicity, especially on processes of international mobility to and from Portugal and on the dynamics of ethnicity in Portuguese society.

The projects developed and underway are characterized by privileging multidisciplinary approaches and combining the analysis of observed processes with the evaluation of public policies that are present in them.

COORDINATION

Ana Raquel Matias
raquel_matias@iscte-iul.pt

Cláudia Pereira
claudia.pereira@iscte-iul.pt

 

 

 

MAIN TOPICS

Contemporary processes of emigration and immigration

Refugee populations

Descendants of immigrants

Portuguese gypsy populations

Multilinguism

Mobilities

Transnationalism

Residential Segregation

Urban Studies

Additionally, we highlight the areas of trafficking in persons, discrimination and citizenship, integration, migratory policies, as well as migrations in their relations with education, health and education; It also considers migrations in its relations with education, health, gender, family and digital space.

STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS

SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy

alliance of six Iscte research centers working in social sciences and digital technologies with relevance to public policy.

Emmigration Observatory

partnership led by CIES-Iscte involving three other institutions: CEG and Socius of the University of Lisbon, and Instituto de Sociologia of Universidade do Porto

Migra Network

platform for communication and cooperation between more than 380 researchers from various institutions and disciplinary areas from 19 countries, who carry out research on migration in the five continents

IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network

Europe's largest interdisciplinary network in the area of migration and integration, with 61 research centers and more than a thousand researchers