This paper offers a critical analysis of the figures on the Portuguese population in Macau during the period 1800-1850, available in a series of tables called “population maps”. These “maps” are of irregular periodicity, starting in 1803 and ending in 1849. Their study makes it possible to identify the evolution of the Portuguese population by sex and thus assess the balance between men and women in that territory. The period is characterized by a reduced growth of the Portuguese population, but a considerable increase in the masculinity ratio.

The early 1960s marked a change in the typology of Portuguese emigration, characterized by a shift of the migratory flow to the European continent, featuring France as its main destination. Within the vast literature on Portuguese emigration to France, the lack of studies focused on the Portuguese communities of Alsace prompted the elaboration of a paper on the Portuguese in Colmar. This paper constitutes a first attempt at drafting the organization of the Portuguese community in its early times.

After decades of invisibility, the Portuguese emigration went back to be the center of attention, due to the exponential growth in the number of departures, since the 2010 decade. Regarding this new emigratory reality, this study tries to find the determinants of the Portuguese emigrants’ integration process. To do so, a quantitative analysis was carried on, based on data from the REMIGR research project, which provided a look over the influence of each factor in integration process, with the factors being: age, gender, qualifications, social capital, years of residence and official language of the destination country.

The Brexit process has brought uncertainty into the future migration of European Union migrants living in the United Kingdom. This research aims to explore the representations that Portuguese emigrants residing in the United Kingdom made about leaving the country from the European Union and how Brexit changed their migratory aspirations. Those Portuguese outlined their future in the context of a lack of assurance about future rights of residence in the country and, despite the annual income, education and length of residence of these citizens, have proved crucial in how they experience and react. Brexit did not change the migrants' aspirations and future life plans in the UK. Although responsible for a feeling of insecurity within this community, the little interference of Brexit in respondents' migratory plans reveals that this is a net mobility.

The mobility of health professionals in the countries of the European Union is part of the phenomenon of globalization, with the increase in international and intercontinental migratory flows of goods and people. In this context of expanding the circulation of professionals and health services between the countries of the European Union, this study focuses on the mobility of health professionals in European countries, and aims to study the effects of professional mobility on the organizational and professional culture of health institutions. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted with semi-structured individual interviews with health professionals recruited for convenience, from Portugal and currently established in European countries, with thematic analysis of the data obtained, according to the categories previously defined according to the published literature on the subject: reasons, advantages and disadvantages, barriers, differences observed between services and institutions.

This article presents the main conclusions of a study on migrant identity discourses of two distinct migratory waves: A first wave consideres the arrival of Portuguese emigrants into the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s, with a lower level of schooling, and with a mode of incorporation centered on ethnicity and another, coming after 2000, younger and with higher levels of schooling, that rejects the modes of incorporation of the previous generation. It is based on interviews with Portuguese emigrants living in London in 2016.