Maria Teresa
Santos
Maria Teresa Santos is a PhD candidate in migration at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon. Her professional background includes nearly 20 years experience managing European Union and Portuguese cooperation projects mostly in Portuguese Speaking African Countries and East-Timor. After taking her MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, she now turns her focus to the European continent and specifically to the relation between migration and development within the European Union space.
In her PhD research she takes as her point of departure the destruction of the imaginary frontier that separates the underdeveloped global south from the developed global north. By exposing the dynamics of the latest stage of capitalism, she shows that the global north is also a space of unequal development not only between countries but also between regions, where the Intra-EU migration flows represent a symptom of this uneven development. This perspective allows her to place the migration and development debate within the uneven geographical development of the European Union.
In particular she pretends to research the contribution of Portuguese migrants in Germany to the development of Portugal and its regions. Using the lenses of critical realism, social space theory and political economy analysis she pretends to reflect on both commonalities and differences between migrants and non-migrant’s actions restructuring space and scale processes under neoliberalism. She takes a multi-scalar, multi-sited perspective as methodological options to pursue research in the uneven global north evidencing the relevance of the migration and development debate in a renewed geography of capitalism, re-centering the importance of space and territory.
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Expertise
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa
Research Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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