Portugal, durante séculos, foi um país de emigração, vendo muita da sua população partir em diáspora para outros países. Esta realidade, a partir dos anos 70, foi de certa forma alterada, com a entrada de muitos imigrantes, sobretudo dos Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, fenómeno que aumentou significativamente desde a adesão de Portugal à Comunidade Europeia. De um país de emigração, Portugal tornou-se, nos últimos anos, um país de imigração, com fluxos migratórios que provêm de forma expressiva dos PALOP. A permanência desta comunidade entre nós tem um caráter mais prolongado e, em muitos casos, definitivo. Paralelamente a este fenómeno, um outro tem vindo a ocupar uma expressão significativa em Portugal, nomeadamente a entrada de jovens provenientes dos PALOP à procura de uma formação mais sólida nas universidades portuguesas, realidade que se deve, em grande medida, ao facto destes se sentirem protegidos pelas suas redes de interconhecimento constituídas por familiares e amigos do mesmo país de origem. Não obstante o vínculo histórico e cultural que une estes países, a inserção destes estudantes nas universidades portuguesas tem sido um fenómeno complexo e lento, na medida em que, se por um lado, há uma progressiva massificação e heterogeneização cultural dos públicos que acedem ao ensino universitário - situação que cria novos desafios às instituições, na medida em que criam problemas na adaptabilidade e no sucesso dos estudantes imigrantes, por outro, a sociedade portuguesa continua a ter atitudes contraditórias em relação à imigração em geral, e, de um modo particular, à que provém dos PALOP, na medida em que continua a apresentar preconceitos e atitudes discriminatórias face aos imigrantes, posturas que, consequentemente, se instalam também no ambiente académico. A partir da perspectiva acerca das problemáticas que emergem da inserção destes estudantes nas universidades, pretendemos perceber as tensões, problemáticas e obstáculos que surgem na vida académica e que refletem a complexidade dos mecanismos envolvidos nessa modalidade de migração. Deste modo, é nosso propósito medir e analisar o tipo de integração académica que as universidades do distrito de Braga praticam entre os alunos provenientes dos PALOP. ; For centuries, Portugal has been a country of emigration, and has witnessed much of its population migrate into other countries. This reality, since the 70s, was somewhat altered, with the addition of many immigrants, especially of Portuguese speaking countries. This phenomenon has increased significantly since the accession of Portugal to the European Community. From a country of emigration, Portugal has become, in recent years, a country of immigration, with migratory flows that come mainly from the PALOP. In parallel to this phenomenon, another has come to occupy a significant expression in Portugal, and in particular the entry of young people from PALOP looking for a more solid formation in Portuguese universities. Despite the cultural and historical links between these countries, the inclusion of these students in Portuguese universities has been a slow and complex phenomenon. If on the one hand, there is a gradual expansion of cultural heterogenization and accessing public university education, on the other hand, the Portuguese society still has contradictory attitudes towards immigration in general, and, in particular, towards the one that comes from the PALOP, in so far as it continues to present prejudices and discriminatory attitudes against immigrants, postures that consequently settle also in the academic environment. From the perspective of the problems that arise from the inclusion of these students at the universities, it is our purpose to measure and analyze the type of academic integration that universities in Braga's district practice among students from the PALOP.

For centuries, Portugal has been a country of emigration, and has witnessed much of its population migrate into other countries. This reality, since the 70s, was somewhat altered, with the addition of many immigrants, especially of Portuguese speaking countries. This phenomenon has increased significantly since the accession of Portugal to the European Community. From a country of emigration, Portugal has become, in recent years, a country of immigration, with migratory flows that come mainly from the PALOP. In parallel to this phenomenon, another has come to occupy a significant expression in Portugal, and in particular the entry of young people from PALOP looking for a more solid formation in Portuguese universities. Despite the cultural and historical links between these countries, the inclusion of these students in Portuguese universities has been a slow and complex phenomenon. If on the one hand, there is a gradual expansion of cultural heterogenization and accessing public university education, on the other hand, the Portuguese society still has contradictory attitudes towards immigration in general, and, in particular, towards the one that comes from the PALOP, in so far as it continues to present prejudices and discriminatory attitudes against immigrants, postures that consequently settle also in the academic environment. From the perspective of the problems that arise from the inclusion of these students at the universities, it is our purpose to measure and analyze the type of academic integration that universities in Braga's district practice among students from the PALOP.