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This article is based on the results of the research project "Feeling the Pulse of the community," "Identity politics and narratives of a Portuguese migrant community in Canada", funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portuguese Science Foundation). The research focused on the study of the television show "Gente da Nossa", which reveals characteristics of an "ethnic minority media". The study integrates the field of Anthropology of Media, and draws on an ethnographic approach to the processes of production and broadcast of the show. The article aims at situating "Gente da Nossa" within the broad and complex field of relationships between the production and broadcast of "ethnic media", and the processes of ethnicization of migrant communities. The show is strategically conceptualized as a vehicle used in the production, diffusion, objectification and commodification of imagery representing the "Portuguese community in Canada." The ethnography carried out allowed for the reading and discussion of some key dimensions implicated in the construction of the concept of "community", and contributed as well through a case study to a better understanding of that multifaceted and complex cultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper challenges the normalised view that immigrant communities, like language and identity, are natural and depoliticised social realities. They are, in fact, carefully constructed social projects structured by people with multiple positionings who compete over unequally distributed resources. A critical and ethnographic sociolinguistic analysis reveals Toronto's Portuguese-Canadian community as a market where internal group divisions along linguistic, regional and generational lines are masked in order to appeal to the homogenising discourses of Canadian multiculturalism and Portuguese nationalism. The market is thus divided between a minority of Mainland Portuguese, whose standard language variety and dominant cultural habitus afford them positions of power, and a majority of Azorean Portuguese, whose ways of being and speaking Portuguese are delegitimised. Qualitative research methods, including semistructured interviews and participant observation, suggest that the Canadian-born inheritors of this market navigate discursive spaces which largely remain monolingually and monoculturally Portuguese and that are filled with contradictions marginalising most young people for lacking the "right" linguistic or cultural capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we aim to highlight some aspects relating to the living conditions, motivations for leaving, and integration in the host country, of emigrants who have returned to the Azores. We focus primarily on aspects of employment, participation in community associations and political participation, emphasizing the importance of social networks, particularly those of the family, throughout the entire process of migration. Within this theoretical framework, the study was based on a survey, which was administered to all of those who had lived abroad and who later returned to their region of origin, to set up residence. The results of this investigation contribute to the understanding of an essential aspect of Azorean history and society, serving equally towards the definition and implementation of public policies, directed at this aspect of mobility in the archipelago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Revista Portuguesa de Ciências do Desporto is the property of Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Desporto and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Isolated in the North Atlantic, the Azores have always suffered in the struggle for the domination of the seas. The World War II was no exception. The interaction between civil and military authorities, imposed by outer pressures, shows the specificity and vulnerability of the Azorean people during WWII. External and internal factors, abnormal to the country and induced by the war, like the lack of materials, food, transport, inflation, the black market, the drop in the purchasing power and the possibility of riots are some examples. The islands would have serious difficulties to sustain the presence of a large military contingent with the function of defending them, regardless of materials and food, human and financial gaps. The conversion of the military device, from peace to war, overwhelmed by the facilities granted to foreign people, would worsen even more the dependence on foreign economy, exposing the islands to factors such as the economic blockade and submarine warfare. The Azoreans felt insecurity, the lack of transport and a reducing capacity of importation and exportation. Controlled by a fascist government with exceptional and authoritarian powers, like the conversion of the production; the mobilization and distribution of the workforce and the orientation of internal trade, especially in the movement of goods, rationing and consumption; price-fixing and wages and profits limitation, there would be an attempt to control the inflation, the devaluation, the loss of foreign exchange and, in the end, the balance between the authorities, the military forces and the Azoreans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]