This article brings to the discussion the role that continuous professional training can have in the humanization of the hospital. At a time when (also) health institutions are being based on productivity indicators and quality standards, with new technologies gaining space and dominance, the need to humanize health services has been widely discussed and even claimed, with the rulers themselves to recognize tha...
A necessidade de um conhecimento mais profundo acerca das complexidades do fenómeno da “fuga de cérebros” e o seu crescente aumento no país levaram ao desenvolvimento desta pesquisa. De forma a captar esta complexa realidade foi utilizada uma metodologia mista, multilateral, recorrendo a técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas de recolha de informação com vista à caracterização dos fatores de atração e repulsão n...
This paper, near the essay configuration, settles in the observation of artistic formations in schools of 1st Cycle Basic Education. In it, we reflect on how the benign introduction of uncertainty in education could contribute to the inversion of the hyper-rationalized educational paradigm, bringing it positively closer to the Freirean ontological perspective.We suggest that we place ourselves in a position pri...
How does the U.S.-Mexico border build-up of the mid-2000s change clandestine crossing experiences? Semi-structured interviews with return migrants in Puebla, Mexico in 2003-04 and 2011 revealed how increased enforcement entailed greater risks of arrest and potentiated violence migrants experienced at the hands of smugglers and criminals, reducing circular migration. Dispossessed of physical security and psychol...
Emigration is a chronic structural process of the Portuguese society. The discussion and key arguments raised in this chapter are mainly focused on data from a research project on Portuguese skilled emigration. Based on the outcomes of the BRADRAMO2 on-line survey to 1011 highly skilled emigrants it can be suggested that recent phenomena in general, and the crisis that began around 2008 in particular, profoundl...
Devant le renouvellement de l’émigration portugaise en Europe, une enquête réalisée en 2014 fait le point sur les représentations que les migrants portent sur leur propre parcours. La distinction de différents facteurs de répulsion pour leur pays d’origine et d’attraction pour le pays de destination permet d’esquisser les nouveaux visages des migrants portugais, plus qualifiés que leurs prédécesseurs, très info...
Este artigo analisa a emigração portuguesa qualificada, focando-se sobre a produção da decisão de emigrar. É seu objetivo compreender as disposições que conduzem a essa decisão, bem como os processos sociais que explicam a sua génese, sedimentação e ativação. Para isso, e recorrendo à proposta teórica e metodológica de Bernard Lahire, procede-se à análise transversal de 53 retratos sociológicos de portugueses q...