Index
Introduction
The Lisbon Metropolitan Area and its Features: Population,
Economy and Urban Restructuring
1. Population and urban growth
2. Productive and labour market restructuring
3. Segregation and social and spatial fragmentation
of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
4. Concluding remarks
Aspects of the Migratory Policy – Local Integration Issues
1. Placing Portugal in the global framework
2. Towards the development of an immigration policy in Portugal:
from post-colonial measures to the equality of rights principle and to the timid formal recognition of immigration as a relevant social issue
3. The general framework of the local administration responses to immigration: the case of Lisbon Metropolitan Area
The Insertion of the Immigrants in the Metropolitan Economy and Society
1. Demographic aspects
2. A new migratory flow: the Eastern Europeans
3. The foreigners’ distribution in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
4. The foreign population and the labour market
5. Housing
6. Social services and benefits: a statistical analysis
Concluding Remarks: Synthesis and Preliminary Assessment
1. Basic features and results
2. Policy principles and practices
3. Final remarks
References