Imigrantes negros dos PALOP africanos em Portugal: auto-percepções e percepções de características sócio-profissionais

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  • Nelson Lima Santos Universidade Fernando Pessoa
  • Luísa Faria Universidade do Porto

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative and differential study about the self-perceptions and the reciprocal perceptions of socio-professional characteristics (positive and negative) of White Portuguese workers and of Black African workers of countries of Portuguese expression (PALOP), near 200 workers from Lisbon and surroundings, 100 of each ethnic group, from both sexes. We build a specific questionnaire, collectively and individually administered in the subject’s work place. The results are analyzed and allow one to conclude the need to transform and to improve the immigrants’ socio-labour conditions, by making their conditions of legalization and of permanence in Portugal quicker and transparent, and also by promoting the responsibility of employers in particular, and of citizens in general for denouncing the situations of exploration and illegality, because their social inclusion should be a signal of conviviality and of respect instead of assimilation.

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