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Emigrants and Immigrants , Social Change , Social Mobility , Social Problems , Socioeconomic Factors , Emigrants and Immigrants/education , Emigrants and Immigrants/history , Emigrants and Immigrants/legislation & jurisprudence , Emigrants and Immigrants/psychology , Emigration and Immigration/history , Emigration and Immigration/legislation & jurisprudence , Employment/economics , Employment/history , Employment/legislation & jurisprudence , Employment/psychology , Ethnicity/education , Ethnicity/ethnology , Ethnicity/history , Ethnicity/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/psychology , History, 20th Century , Humans , Portugal/ethnology , Race Relations/history , Race Relations/legislation & jurisprudence , Race Relations/psychology , Social Change/history , Social Mobility/economics , Social Mobility/history , Social Problems/economics , Social Problems/ethnology , Social Problems/history , Social Problems/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Problems/psychology , Transients and Migrants/education , Transients and Migrants/history , Transients and Migrants/legislation & jurisprudence , Transients and Migrants/psychologyABSTRACT
"This article demonstrates how Portugal, despite appearing to be a country which would be [an] unattractive country to immigrants, is rapidly becoming a country of immigration. The existence and extent of opportunities for immigrants in Portugal is assessed with this objective in mind. On the basis of an analysis of the country's labour market, the immigrants' economic profiles and the Portuguese informal economy--and the interaction of these factors--it is concluded that the Portuguese economy is currently generating labour demands which the immigrants are satisfying. In some cases they complement and in others they substitute for the domestic labour force."
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Emigration and Immigration , Employment , Health Workforce , Demography , Developed Countries , Economics , Europe , Population , Population Dynamics , Portugal , Transients and MigrantsABSTRACT
PIP: "There are two main nominal sources of data on Portuguese emigration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the Rois de Confessados or Rois de Desobriga and the Livros de Registos de Passaportes.... The major question regarding passport registers concerns the level of clandestine emigration. Thus a comparison with U.S. ship lists reveals two different pictures of Portuguese emigration [with regard to] sex ratio, occupations and age distribution. Data obtained point at a larger generalization: sources containing data on legal emigration only do not reflect ¿true' emigration in countries with important clandestine streams." (EXCERPT)^ieng
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Age Distribution , Data Collection , Emigration and Immigration , Occupations , Records , Research Design , Sex Ratio , Transients and Migrants , Age Factors , Americas , Demography , Developed Countries , Economics , Europe , Health Workforce , Knowledge , Licensure , North America , Population , Population Characteristics , Population Dynamics , Portugal , Research , Sex Distribution , Sex Factors , Statistics as Topic , United StatesABSTRACT
PIP: Trends in emigration from Portugal are reviewed over the course of the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to the impact of emigration on Portugal's economy. The author concludes that Portuguese emigration during this century consisted essentially of persons with little or no professional or technical qualifications, and that its net effect on the Portuguese economy seems to have been positive rather than negative.^ieng
