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This paper analyses the efforts of Salazar regime to "monopolize the legitimate means of people movement" (TORPEY, 2005) by showing that, during the Portuguese New State, the emigration control reached an apex on two circumstances in which the authorities had prohibited the boarding of some migrants who were ready to legally leave the country. The desperate letters written by some Portuguese families, who were forbidden to emigrate to São Paulo´s farms in 1938, and by those subjects prohibited to leave Portugal due to the 1947´s law demonstrate the materiality of boards made of decrees and ministerial dispatches signed by an authoritarian government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper three socially relevant topics are discussed: the evolution of migration patterns in Portugal, the social construction of 'the immigrant' and last decade's evolution of the numbers and characteristics of foreign nationals in Portuguese prisons. If there has been an historical tendency to associate immigration and crime, recent research has proved that this is not always accurate and that immigrants can have a positive impact on societies' demography and dynamics (Rosa et al., 2003). In this paper it is argued that, even though there is a strong evidence of the increase in the proportion of foreign nationals in prisons, there is a lack of knowledge about the different scenarios of foreign nationals' criminality, depending on their status (legal versus illegal, residents versus non residents). By providing this discussion we expect to contribute to the deconstruction of the stereotypes that relate foreign nationals to crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses Brazilian immigrants' experiences in Portugal. These immigrants came from Governador Valadares, a Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais. The research demonstrates the existence of processes of "social hiddeness" on the part of the immigrants, who avoid being recognized in public. We also identify a division between immigrants who consume goods considered superfluous and those who focus exclusively on the accumulation of resources, avoiding expenses with leisure, for example. The Valadarenses devalue morally the immigrants' consumption they consider superflous, associating this kind of consumtion to a depreciation of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The African diaspora experienced by immigrants and students leaving for Portugal and Brazil, coming from the Portuguese speaking African countries (PALOP) -- Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe -- is here the theme in discussion. They are young people of the so-called immigrant generation, the "Dangerous Generation" in the eyes of the European world, of Portugal, not less dangerous, however, in the Brazilian case. At stake, their social patrimony and heritage constituted by family and collective memory, based on the African world and the migratory context. This paper focuses on African districts in Portugal, "Aldeias d'Africa", and on young university students living in shared apartments and student boards in Campinas, Belo Horizonte, and Fortaleza. This discussion encompasses what characterizes them in terms of africanity and blackness constructed with their movings, and their private stories which reveal a more general history of a black, African and foreign people in the "land of others". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]