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This chapter focuses on analysis of the interaction of local or community organizations with public authorities, focusing on the activities impacting immigrant populations based on research in Oeiras, outside Lisbon, & the EU's Urban progam for regeneration. The model of the MPMC project was based on top-bottom & activation-mobilization dichotomies that require extensive refinement to fit empirical reality, as they do not distinguish between the separate entities involved, they assume linear or hierarchical processes, & do not account for the complexity of institutional levels between which the activation & mobilization processes operate. Expanding the MPMC theoretical framework to include institutional levels ranging from the neighborhood to the supranational incorporates the specificity of differences while maintaining the comparative potential of the analytical model. 3 Figures, 35 References. L. Kehl

This chapter focuses on analysis of the interaction of local or community organizations with public authorities, focusing on the activities impacting immigrant populations based on research in Oeiras, outside Lisbon, & the EU's Urban progam for regeneration. The model of the MPMC project was based on top-bottom & activation-mobilization dichotomies that require extensive refinement to fit empirical reality, as they do not distinguish between the separate entities involved, they assume linear or hierarchical processes, & do not account for the complexity of institutional levels between which the activation & mobilization processes operate. Expanding the MPMC theoretical framework to include institutional levels ranging from the neighborhood to the supranational incorporates the specificity of differences while maintaining the comparative potential of the analytical model. 3 Figures, 35 References. L. Kehl

This article is about Cape Verdean women who make a living through engaging in regular transnational petty trade. They buy consumer goods in West African countries, in Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, in Brazil and in the USA, to sell back in Cape Verde, either in open‐air markets or in their own shops. Women perform most of this kind of trade and they operate on the border between the formal and informal economies. Drawing on interview material, the article shows how their self‐presentation as autonomous self‐reliant economic agents relates to gender and family roles and to a strategic balance between personal freedom and embeddedness in multi‐territorialized networks.

These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants' identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population