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 Where are migrants coming from? Where have migrants left?

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The End Of A Geo-Demographic Singularity: The Catholics From Moldavia

Précis:  “Well-known for their vitality, they managed after 1990 to adapt to a new social, economic and political context that re-shaped their demographic profile. Being among the first to emigrate in order to find a place to work, especially to the states in the South of Europe, the Catholic communities from Moldavia have been subjected to a double erosion of  the demographic vitality: firstly, due to the final emigration of a part of the young population and secondly, due to the modification of the behaviour in the sense of the acceleration of the processes specific to the last stage of the demographic transition.

Thus, the result was – only after 2 decades – the degradation of the demographical structures of the communities due to the acceleration of the demographic ageing process. If previously, they managed to maintain a certain advantage on at regional level, they currently seem to be the most vulnerable to demographic risks”.

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The End Of A Geo-Demographic Singularity: The Catholics From Moldavia
Ionel Muntele,  Ionuţ Atudorei

Analele Universităţii din Oradea, Seria Geografie
TOM XXI, Nr. 1/2011 (Iunie)

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Diffusion of Immigrant Culture in Portugal: A Study

Abstract:  The starting point is the principle that there is no immigrant culture,  but rather, different ways of living, coexisting and identifying oneself within the cultural worlds that each subject crosses on his or her social path.  Here we study Brazilian immigrants in Portugal, working with the first wave  (starting at the end of the 1980s)  and the second wave  (at the turn of the 20th to 21st century).

We intend, firstly, to show how identity is reconstructed between two banks: the departure culture and the arrival culture.

Secondly, we intend to give a voice to the most silent in the understanding of immigrants:  the processof identity reconstruction of Brazilian immigrants is presented, resulting from ethno-biographic interviews.

We will consider the cultural transfusion theory and observe the heterogeneous ways of living between cultures, whether by rejecting the departure culture  (the Oblato’s case),  refusing the arrival one at a given moment  (the mono-culturalsubject according to the source culture),  living in an ambivalent manner between the two (the multicultural self),  or,  finally,  inventing a third bank, as the poets say, which corresponds to an attitude of including the cultural differences through which one crosses during his or her life history in an intercultural self  (the Intercultural Transfuga).

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Identity Reconfiguration of Immigrants in Portugal

Ricardo Vieira and Maura Mendes

Diversity 2010, 2, 959-972;

doi:10.3390/d2070959

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