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Mediterranean Quarterly (2005) 16 (4): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Migration Experience: Redefi ned Boundaries and Uneasy Transformations Sebastián Royo Historically, Portugal has been known as a country of emigration. Over the past fi ve centuries Portuguese citizens have emigrated all over the world as Portuguese colonization...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (3): 95–129.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of Portugal’s mem- bership in the EC/European Union as an opportunity to refl ect on what has happened since 1986 and draw some lessons from the Portuguese experi- ence. I will identify the basic changes in the economy and society of Portu- gal that occurred as a result of European integration. Entry...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 93–96.
Published: 01 December 2010
... as springing from “an interrelated network of specific ideas and approaches rooted at once in phenomenological philosophy, literary criticism, and classical studies . . . a work of creative synthesis.” Vincent Barletta’s central, substan- tive focus is “the expansion of Iberian [Spanish and Portuguese...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 97–100.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of Iberian [Spanish and Portuguese] empire into Muslim Africa and Asia during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries” as chronicled by its histo- rians. But his methodology goes well beyond his impressive command of this literature to (1) an interpretation inspired by Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2005) 16 (2): 52–65.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia. Angola Diamonds have played an important role in the civil war in Angola. This bloody confl ict began in 1956 with the struggle against Portuguese colonial- ism and the formation of the Popular Movement...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (2): 53–79.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of statistics paints a slightly more positive picture. In 2011, for instance, 14 percent of Greeks participated in volunteer work, in contrast to 26 percent for Italians, 15 percent for Spaniards, and 12 percent for Portuguese. The EU average registered 24 percent. During the same period, 7 percent...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2001) 12 (1): 39–50.
Published: 01 March 2001
... hour it seemed that a rea- sonable peace settlement had been reached through the efforts of Lord Car- rington and the Portuguese foreign minister, Jose Cutileiro. The so-called Lisbon Agreement of March 1992 held out hope that the three religious...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (4): 91–120.
Published: 01 December 2006
... servicemen could buy not only “American products of every description, but [also] Italian and Spanish leather goods, Portuguese laces, French perfumes and wines, British woolens, Norwegian sardines, and even Belgian shotguns at lower prices than in the United States,” resell these goods to local...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Weighing Macedonia’s Entry into NATO  51 the British, Spanish, and Portuguese governments. The Skopje government seemed ready to join coalitions of the willing when called on to engage in international operations abroad, mainly to demonstrate its bona fides as a loyal and trustworthy ally.4 So far...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2003) 14 (4): 139–157.
Published: 01 December 2003
... implementation of any projects that are agreed upon. In an effort to become more flexible as a discussion group, the Mediter- ranean Forum decided, during the Portuguese presidency in 2000, to halt 11. Selim Yenel, “Creating a More Viable Mediterranean: Regional Efforts, Difficulties in Coopera- tion...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 186–202.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., whether it was simply the novelty of seeing people who look and behave differently from the majority or of viewing new arrivals as a threat. In her 1997 pamphlet, “Repulsing Racism: Refl ections on Racism and the Irish,” Gretchen Fitzgerald, a black woman born in India with a mixed Portuguese, British...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 March 2000
... by the Portuguese and Span- ish prime ministers in Seville in 1990. One might see current EU policies toward the East affecting its Mediterranean policies, with the union seeing the latter as a counterpart to its new Ostpolitik. While the northern EU members...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (2): 77–94.
Published: 01 June 2009
... in Africa. Among many examples of such treaties are the convention between France and Portugal in 1886, the Anglo-French Agree- ment of 1889, the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890, the Anglo-Portuguese Agreement of 1890, and the Franco-Spanish Convention of 1900. In some places, verbal agreements alone...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 147–166.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., Portuguese, and Turks, this social ascension has not been signifi cantly observed yet, since these are more recent infl uxes (since the 1980s). Third, the arrival of highly skilled immigrants seems to be a more recent phenomenon. These immigrants for the most part come from Northern and Western Europe...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 167–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
... are Ecuadorians (84,699), British (80,183), Germans (62,506), Colombi- ans (48,710), French (44,798), and Portuguese (42,634). These shifts in the immigrant population will likely provoke a negative reaction from the gen- eral public, especially as immigrants begin to assert their cultural heritage...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (2): 41–58.
Published: 01 June 2000
...- sador, the United States followed suit (although only temporarily), and Aus- tria’s fourteen fellow member states of the European Union took steps to downgrade bilateral relations. Jamie Gama, the Portuguese foreign minister, summed up the reaction when he...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (4): 91–110.
Published: 01 December 2008
... recitation of history puts into perspective this trend of exploitation, which can be differentiated into four periods. In the first period, the Portuguese were followed by the Germans, Belgians, British, and French, all of whom arrived in Africa ostensibly to trade. The competing interests among...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2011) 22 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 March 2011
... slaves (40 percent of their total trade) from the port cities in the Brights of Benin and Biafra.2 These ports are all in the Niger Delta region. The Portuguese and later Dutch, French, Swedish, and British slave merchants traded with local elites. Disputes over payment occasionally resulted...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (3): 55–74.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the assembly of the Western European Union (WEU), clearly articulated an emphasis on EU security interests in the region on 8 October 2002: The Assembly and the Portuguese Presidency chose to focus on this region because it is adjacent to the EU and there is a risk of it being neglected 9...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2005) 16 (4): 90–111.
Published: 01 December 2005
... were not aware of it—radio and news- paper notices were undertaken by the Department of Home Affairs, but they were conducted in English. These would not reach, for instance, Portuguese- speaking Mozambicans, who make up the bulk of illegal immigrants, as well as immigrants from Francophone...