Реферат Portuguese emigration after World War II

rope after World War II, however, indicates that clandestine flows differ significantly from legal ones. Illegal Portuguese migrants tend to be isolated and unskilled males in their prime; this increases the likelihood that legal flows do not accurately reflect actual migratory flows between 1950 and 1988. p> One corrective for the discrepancies in the official figures is to examine the relative attraction of the principal recipient countries. According to French and German records, we can correct the distribution in Table 10.2. Table 10.1 (Legal Departures)) shows that the two preferred European destinations (France and Germany) attracted 35 percent of the total between 1950 and 1988, and that the three overseas destinations (Brazil, Canada, and the United States) attracted 47 percent. Table 10.2 (Legal and Illegal Departures), by contrast, indicates that the two key European destinations accounted for 59 percent of the total, and the three overseas destinations for just 30 percent, in the same period.

TABLE 10.1 Principal Destinations of Portuguese Legal Emigration, 1950-1988 (in thousands)

Legal Departures

Percentage

France

347

25.0

Brazil

321

23.0

United States

193

14.0

Germany

135

10.0

Canada

138

10.0

Other

241

18.0

TOTAL

1,375

100.0

TABLE 10.2 Principal Destinations of Portuguese Emigration, 1950-1988 (in thousands)

Legal and Illegal Departures

Percentage

France

1,024

48.0

Brazil

321

15.0

United States

193

9.0

Germany

235

11.0

Canada

138

6.0