Ethnicity and intolerance: Portuguese in the European diaspora

Abstract

This text analyses the Portuguese emigration in 1980, when the author, during his post-doctoral research period, studied the rural family from Portugal and compared it to the analysis developed by Willems during the fifties. The migratory streams to France, especially, that reached the apogee in the decade of 60 and in the earlies 70, were already declining, in consequence also of the restrictions imposed by the French government. The study revealed the European intolerance directed to the foreign immigrant that express the difficult of several European governments in dealing with the plurality of the "different ones" inside their territory.