The conference "Transnational Families and Ruralities: Migration Strategies and the Impact of Migration on Local Development in the Galicia Region" will take place on Friday, February 20th, at 4:30 PM, with Alba Vásquez-López from the University of A Coruña and commentary by Maria João Oliveira from FLUP/IS-IP. The conference will be held online via the Microsoft Teams platform.

Today, February 18th, the conference "Portuguese Emigration: Dynamics and Recent Transformations" will be held, presented by Cláudia Pereira, executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory. The conference will begin at 6 PM and is scheduled to last until 7:30 PM. This will be the third conference in the series "Migrations in Portugal: Dynamics, Challenges and Policies," organized by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and coordinated by Maria Lucinda Fonseca, António Vitorino, Jorge Soares, and Maria Salomé Soares Pais.

The Portuguese Emigration Observatory will take part in the 2nd Debate Cycle of the International Network of Migration Observatories (RIOMIGRA), to be held on 20 October 2025, under the theme “International Migrations: Contemporary Challenges between Cities and Borders.”

The Portuguese Emigration Observatory will host the conference “‘Free’ movement for Portuguese in Luxembourg” on October 2, at 6:00 PM, at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, room B325, building 4.

The Portuguese Emigration Observatory, in partnership with the International Center for Research on Brazilian Academic Migration and Diaspora (CIIMDAB) and several institutions in Portugal and Brazil, is organizing the 3rd International Meeting of Migration Observatories (RIOMIGRA) on September 15, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Lisbon time), in a hybrid format.

On February 27, the conference “The migration obsession” will take place at the Auditorium 302, Building 4 of ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. The event will feature Peter Scholten, a professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a specialist in migration governance. The conference will address the challenges and opportunities of migration policies, analyzing different governance models and institutional responses to migration dynamics.

On 8 September, as part of the September Festival in Ourém, the Emigration Observatory is holding a seminar entitled 'Trajectories of Portuguese emigration', from 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., in a hybrid format, with the aim of addressing the current panorama of Portuguese emigration.

The Emigration Observatory is organizing, in partnership with the International Association of Lusodescendants (AILD), the colloquium "What is it to be Lusodescendant?" on December 15th at 3pm.

On March 9th, ISCTE-IUL will host the second conference in the scope of the 10 years of the Observatory of Emigration, dedicated to the theme "Migration and Communication", which will have as keynote speaker the researcher of COMPAS and Deputy Director of the Observatory of Migration of Oxford, Robert McNeil.

On March 9th, ISCTE-IUL will host the second conference in the scope of the 10 years of the Observatory of Emigration, dedicated to the theme "Migration and Communication", which will have as keynote speaker the researcher of COMPAS and Deputy Director of the Observatory of Migration of Oxford, Robert McNeil.

On November 27th will take place at ISCTE-IUL the first conference within the scope of the 10 years of the Emigration Observatory, dedicated to the theme "Migration and welfare state", which will have as keynote speaker the Professor of the University of Liège, Jean-Michel Lafleur.

[CONFERENCE] On November 27th will take place at ISCTE-IUL the first conference within the scope of the 10 years of the Emigration Observatory, dedicated to the theme "Migration and Welfare State", which will have as keynote speaker the Professor of the University of Liège, Jean-Michel Lafleur. +

Dia 6 de Maio realiza-se no ISCTE-IUL a conferência internacional “Perspectives on migration: political action and civic engagement” com o Dr. António Vitorino, diretor-geral da Organização Internacional das Migrações (OIM), enquanto keynote speaker, bem como diversos especialistas nacionais e internacionais nesta área.