Title  Os novos movimentos migratórios portugurses: o caso da emigração portuguesa para a Suiça (Original) 
         New Portuguese migratory movements: the case of Portuguese emigration to Switzerland (EN)
Author  José Carlos Laranjo Marques
Advisor  Maria Ioannis Baganha
Year  2006
Institution Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra  
Degree  PhD
Area  Sociology - Rural and Urban Sociology
Keywords  International Migration
URI https://hdl.handle.net/10316/489

Abstract

The Portuguese migratory movement to Switzerland constituted the central theme of this work. Based on the observation that outbound migratory flows did not cease with the closure of the borders of industrialized European countries to the entry of labor immigrants, the research focused on an in-depth analysis of the political and migratory context in which this movement took place. Until the late 1970s, the Portuguese remained marginalized from immigration flows in Switzerland due to the confluence of a series of factors in the country of origin and the destination country. On the Portuguese side, the existence of more relevant emigration destinations, where migratory networks were already sufficiently structured to maintain the flow. On the Swiss side, the recruitment of foreign workers in countries considered culturally close, with which Switzerland had a long history of labor recruitment, and the lack of migratory resources that could sustain the development of Portuguese migration to Switzerland. The disruption of this set of factors in both countries created the necessary conditions for the development of Portuguese emigration to Switzerland, which became more intense with the development of active migratory networks at both ends of the flow. This study demonstrates that the host country's immigration policy and the structure of the Swiss labor market influence both the nature of the Portuguese migratory flow to Switzerland and the integration of Portuguese migrants into Swiss society. A longitudinal analysis of two groups of Portuguese migrants who first entered Switzerland in 1981 and 1985 illustrates the effect of these two factors on the legal, professional, and geographic mobility of Portuguese migrants.