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Brief description of
institution (250 words max)
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Established in 1985,
CIES-ISCTE is a university research centre associated to ISCTE (University
Institute for Social Sciences, Business Studies and Technologies) and
accredited by the FCT.
It is supported by the
Multi-annual Funding Program for R&D Units, sponsored by FCT. In 2008, it
was subjected by FCT to external evaluation by an international scientific
panel and, as in earlier periodic evaluations, was classified as "excellent".
CIES main focus is on
projects of fundamental research in sociology, political science, education
studies, communication studies and urban anthropology. Most of these projects
are funded through open calls with scientific evaluation promoted by national
and European agencies/foundations.
The projects are grouped
into 5 lines of research and an intercontinental research programme, which
are more thematic lines than organisational ones. Many researchers carry out
research in more than one of the lines.
CIES' management bodies
consist of a Board of Directors, the Scientific Committee, the Supervisory
Committee and the General Assembly. The Centre also has an external
Scientific Advisory Committee made up of 5 Portuguese and foreign well-known
researchers.
CIES-ISCTE publishes since
1986 a scientific journal - Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas -
directed by a senior researcher with support of an Editorial Committee and an
International Editing Committee.
The support structures of
the Centre include the Financial and Administrative Department, the
Communication and Planning Office and the journal's editorial secretariat,
including a total of 5 staff members.
The centre is affiliated
with the European Cnsortium for Sociological Research (ECRS) and the European
Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
The research centre is divided into
five main research lines:
I - Processes of Social
Recomposition and Cultural Reconfiguration
Coords.: Fernando Luís Machado and
José Luís Casanova
II -Knowledge Society and
Patterns of Competence
Coords.: António Firmino da Costa
and Patrícia Ávila
III - Ways of Life and
Public Policies
Coords.: Maria das Dores Guerreiro
and Anália Torres
IV - Politics and
Citizenship: Institutions, Cultures and Behaviour
Coords.: Luís de Sousa
V - Work, Occupations and
Organisations
Coords.: Luísa Oliveira
VI - Europe/Latin American
Research Program (ELARP)
Coords.: Beatriz Padilla and
Catherine Moury
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Running projects
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Title: Ethnicity, School Trajectories and
Professional Expectations: young descendants of immigrants at the end of
compulsory schooling
Research Team: Teresa Seabra; Sandra Mateus;
Magda Nico; Elisabete Rodrigues
Abstract: In recent years the increasing
migratory pressure in Portugal and its growing demographic and cultural
importance has become an issue of general interest and wide debate. There
remains, however, inadequate scientific knowledge about the configurations
and conditions that characterize this segment of Portuguese society, one that
is considerably heterogeneous from a cultural, social and age-structure point
of view. In the field of sociology, there is a shortage of data regarding,
for example, the social composition, schooling processes and life courses of
the young descendants of immigrants in Portugal. For this reason, this
research proposes to build a stock of multidimensional information that helps
us to state the issues and allows rectification of some of the
insufficiencies ascertained.
Keywords: Youth; immigration; social
trajectories
Title: Young Descendants of African
Immigrants: Transition to Social Integration or to Social Exclusion?
Research Team: Fernando Luís Machado; Ana Raquel
Matias; Sofia Fontes Leal
Abstract: This project aims at studying
this African second generation, particularly young people in the 15-29 years
old age group, to determinate whether their transition to adulthood
anticipates a future of social integration or social exclusion.
Keywords: African immigrants; social
integration; youth; social exclusion.
Title: Toward a Social Construction of an
European Youth-Ness: Experience of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Public
Sphere among Second Generation Migrated Teenagers (TRESEGY)
Research Team: Beatriz Padilla; Ana Raquel
Matias; Alejandra Ortiz; Vera Rodrigues
Abstract: The project combines quantitative
and qualitative research methods to better understand the realities of young
descendants of immigrant origin living in European cities.
Keywords: Young migrants; Europe; social
integration; social exclusion
Title: Immigrants and Ethnics Minorities
in European Cities: Life-courses and Quality of Life in a World of
Limitations
Research Team: Fernando Luís Machado; Maria
Abranches
Abstract: Focussed on an understanding of
structural changes and effects of societal and economics policies.
Keywords: life-course, migration,
integration
Title: Generation Project - Research of Young
People's Trajectories of Integration and Social Exclusion: Life Trajectories
of Young People from Casal da Boba
Research Team: Fernando Luís Machado; Alexandre
Vianna Silva; Ana Raquel Matias
Abstract: The project aims to contribute for
the integration and the development of life projects for children and young
people of Casal da Boba.
Keywords: Social integration; social
exclusion; youth
Title: Guineans in Portugal - Ethnicity and
Integration
Research Team: Fernando Luís Machado
Abstract: This study seeks to identify the
structural conditions in Portuguese society which encourage inward migratory
flows and to analyse the impact of the presence of immigrant communities at
the economic, cultural and political level. The project focuses particularly
on the study of the community which originates from Guinea-Bissau and
analyses the following aspects of the integration of this community into
Portuguese society: modalities of access and integration into the labour
market and the employment system; dynamics of identity and acculturation;
family and marriage; co-operative movements and strategies of collective
action; second-generation immigrants.
Keywords: ethnicity, integration, Guineans
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Relevant Publications
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Machado,
Fernando Luís (2008), "Processos de integração social e simbólica dos
filhos de imigrantes africanos em Portugal" [Processes of social and symbolic
integration of children of African immigrants in Portugal], in Ricardo Vieira, Cristóvão
Margarido e Maura Mendes (orgs.), Diferenças, Desigualdades, Inclusões,
Exclusões, Porto, Afrontamento.
Machado,
Fernando Luís (2008), "Filhos de imigrantes africanos no mercado de trabalho:
acessos, perfis e trajectos" [Children of African Immigrants in the
labour market: access, types and trajectories], in Migrações,
Lisboa, ACIDI, nº 2, p. 121-158
Machado,
Fernando Luís e Alexandre Silva (2008), Quantos Caminhos Há no
Mundo? Transições para a Vida Adulta num Bairro Social [How many roads are there in the World? Transitions
to Adulthood in a Housing Project Neighbourhood], Lisboa,
CIES-ISCTE.
Machado,
Fernando Luís (2007), "Youngsters like any others? - Integration
processes and scenarios for children of African immigrants in
Portugal", in António Vitorino (coord.), Immigration: Opportunity or
Threat?, Recomendations of the Gulbenkian Immigration Forum, Princípia
Editora, Estoril, Março 2007.
Machado, Fernando Luís, Maria Abranches, Raquel Matias
e Sofia Leal (2007) "Para onde vai a imigração africana em Portugal?
Sedentarização, gerações e trajectos" [Where
are African immigrants going to in Portugal? Settlement, generations and
trajectories] in Maria das Dores, Anália Cardoso Torres e Luís
Capucha (Orgs.), Quotidiano e Qualidade de Vida, (Portugal no
Contexto Europeu, vol. III), Lisboa, Celta
Editora
Machado,
Fernando Luís (2006), "Novos portugueses? Parâmetros sociais da identidade nacional
dos jovens descendentes de imigrantes africanos" [New Portuguese? Social parameters
of national identity of young African immigrant descendants] in Joana Miranda
e Maria Isabel João (orgs.), Identidades Nacionais em Debate,
Oeiras, Celta, pp.19-46.
Machado,
Fernando Luís e Ana Raquel Matias (2006), Descendentes de Imigrantes nas
Sociedades de Acolhimento: Linhas de Identificação Sociológica, [Immigrant Descendants in
Receiving Societies: Sociological Research Lines of Identification] CIES e-Working Paper N.º 13/2006, Lisboa, CIES-ISCTE.
Machado,
Fernando Luís (2003), "Etnicidade e sociabilidades dos guineenses em
Portugal" [Ethnicity and sociabilities of Guineans in Portugal] in Graça
Indias Cordeiro, Luís Vicente Baptista e António Firmino da Costa (orgs.), Etnografias
Urbanas, Celta Editora, pp. 131-142.
Machado,
Fernando Luís (1996), "Minorias e Literacia: Imigrantes Guineenses em
Portugal" [Minorities
and Literacy: Guinean Immigrants in Portugal], in Ana Benavente (coord.), Alexandre Rosa,
António Firmino da Costa e Patrícia Ávila, A Literacia em Portugal. Resultados de uma Pesquisa
Extensiva e Monográfica, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 171-238.
Seabra, Teresa,
Sandra Mateus e Elisabete Rodrigues (2008), "Trajectórias e aspirações
escolares no 9º ano de escolaridade: diferenças de classe social, de
etnicidade e de género" [School Trajectories and Aspirations in the 9th year of schooling;
social class, ethnicity and gender differences], VI Congresso Português de Sociologia
- Mundos Sociais: Saberes e Práticas, Lisboa.
Seabra, Teresa e
Sandra Mateus (2007) "Imigração e escolaridade: trajectórias,
quotidianos e aspirações" [Immigration and school: trajectories, daily activities and
aspirations] in Maria das
Dores, Anália Cardoso Torres e Luís Capucha (Orgs.), Quotidiano e
Qualidade de Vida (Portugal no Contexto Europeu, vol. III), Lisboa, Celta
Editora.
Seabra,
Teresa (Coord.), Sandra Mateus, Magda Nico, Elisabete Rodrigues (2007), Etnicidade,
trajectórias escolares e orientações profissionais: jovens descendentes de
imigrantes no finalizar da escolaridade obrigatória, [Ethnicity, school
trajectories and professional orientations: young immigrant descendants
finishing compulsory school] CIES-ISCTE.
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