2025 – 2026
Project Coordinator
CIPO - Comparing Iberian Public Opinion: a political realignment?
2023.14145.PEX
https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/
• Through an approach based on the demand side of politics, this project proposes a bottom-up investigation of the political preferences of Spanish and Portuguese citizens to assess the emergence of a cultural cleavage and its relationship with the emergence/consolidation of RPPRs. To attain this objective, this project employs a comparative research strategy based on the development of a large N online survey in the two countries.
• Research Team: Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchatel), Laura Morales (CSIC), Dra. Mariana Carmo Duarte (ICS-UL), José Santana Pereira (ISCTE-IUL)
• Partners: Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, ICS-UL
2023 - 2025
Local Coordinator
MIrrEM - Measuring Irregular Migration
https://irregularmigration.eu/
• Irregular migration represents a serious challenge worldwide. However, it is difficult to develop and monitor policies because relevant quantitative data are scarce and often outdated or contested. Many questions remain unanswered regarding the way that legal frameworks define migrant irregularity, the characteristics of irregular migrants concerning age, gender, nationality and other socioeconomic variables and the assessment of policies like regularisation. The EU-funded MIrreM project will assess the policies, data needs and estimates that define migrant irregularity in 11 EU Member States, the UK, Canada, US and five transit countries. The project will develop new and innovative methods for measuring irregular migration and 'regularisation scenarios' actively involving relevant stakeholders at every stage of this project
• Duration: 36 months, project funded by Horizon 2020 of the European Union
2018 – 2020
Project Coordinator
The impact of immigration in the agricultural sector: the case of the Alentejo
PT/2018/FAMI/352
https://imigalentejo.wordpress.com/
• The integration of foreign workers in the Portuguese agricultural sector constitutes a paradox, given the decline of the rural environment. Based on a political economy perspective, the study assesses the impact of immigration on Portuguese agriculture in the 21st century, basing itself on the Alentejo region
• Research team: Dr Luísa Veloso (ISCTE-IUL), Dr Cláudia Pereira (ISCTE-IUL), Dr André Carmo (Universidade de Évora), Dr Alejandra Ortiz (ISCTE-IUL), Dr Alex Balch (University of Liverpool), Sandro Teixeira
• Duration: 23 months, budget: 37,544 €, financed by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
• Partners: Audax-IUL, CIES-IUL
2016 – 2019
Project Coordinator
Support for and Opposition to Immigration in Portugal in a Comparative Perspective
PTDC/IVC-CPO/1069/2014
http://www.som-project.eu/
• The project analyses the politicisation of immigration in Portugal from a comparative perspective with the objective of determining the reasons why potential conflicts concerning immigration become politicised, examining the role of both anti-immigration and anti-racist movements
• Research team: Dr Ana Belchior (ISCTE-IUL), Dr Joana Azevedo (ISCTE-IUL), Dr Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchatel), Professor Laura Morales (Sciences-Po), Dr Ornella Urso, Dr Alejandra Ortiz (ISCTE-IUL), Mariana Carmo Duarte e Sara Silvestre
• Duration: 36 meses (extended for a further 6 months), budget: 168,835 €, financed by The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)