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This chapter was devoted to examining the Portuguese case. As in other Southern European countries, Portugal witnessed considerable immigration fows since the 1980s. The type of economic demand was primarily based in labour-intensive industries, and the strength of the shadow economy fuelled the infows. Such as its Southern European counterparts, the policy responses were tentative and not capable of solving the endemic nature of irregular migration. Since the early 1990s several approaches were taken, which started as classic mass regularisations, turned to targeted regularisations and finished as a case-by-case mechanism inscribed in the law. One of the features of the Portuguese case was the alignment of interests behind such policies, joining employers, trade unions, NGOs, the Catholic Church, left and right-wing parties. Only recently, after the economic downturn of 2011–2014, some divergence emerged. Currently, the potential for erosion is strong and the continuity of the political consensus around immigration has been called into question.
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International Migration Mobility Socio-Political Aspects Illegal Migration Immigration Policies Portugal
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Malheiros, Jorge and João Peixoto .(2023). “Challenges and ambiguities of the policies for immigrants’ regularisation: The Portuguese case in context”. in Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe: A North-South Comparison., Cláudia Finotelli and Irene Ponzo Ed., Chapter 6: pp. 111-130. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. (Open Access 2023 and Search PDF in 2023).
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Springer Nature