The role of migration as a determinant in child mental health has been demonstrated in a number of studies. However, results are not always consistent, and the research continues to be scarce, especially in Portugal. We examined the association between sociodemographic profiles and the chance for the development of emotional and behavioral difficulties in a group of 420 children, immigrant (n = 217) and born in Portugal to Portuguese born parents (n = 203). We used a structured questionnaire to obtain sociodemographic information and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Descriptive statistics were used to characterize children and their families; variables were compared between groups using the Chi-squared, Fisher’s Exact Test, or the Mann–Whitney U test and logistic regression was used to analyze the association between socio-demographic factors and emotional and behavioral difficulties. Results showed a pattern of social and mental health inequalities with immigrant children at a disadvantage: they are more often part of families with low income and where parents had low skilled jobs. Internalizing behaviors are more frequent in immigrants than in children born in Portugal to Portuguese-born parents (p = 0.001) whereas a high total SDQ difficulties score (p = 0.039) and externalizing behaviors were more frequent in 1st generation immigrant children (p = 0.009). A low family income (aOR 4.5; 95% CI: 1.43–13.95), low parental education level (aOR 2.5; 95% CI: 1.11–5.16), and being a first-generation immigrant child (aOR 2.2; 95% CI: 1.06–4.76) increased significantly the chance of developing emotional and behavioral difficulties. This study contributes to the identification of children vulnerable to mental health problems who can benefit from monitoring, early detection and preventive interventions in order to mitigate possible negative outcomes in the future.

This study estimated that more than 6000 women living in Portugal have undergone FGM/C, and many girls remain at risk. These two groups need different types of interventions. Awareness of the number and geographical dispersion of cases of FGM/C will enable more informed and targeted definition of public health policies for protection of females who have undergone or are at risk of undergoing FGM/C.

This paper characterises the joint impacts of intra- and extra-organisational contexts on innovation development during the socio-economic crisis in Portugal. The characterisation of these contexts in 309 firms of the Information and Communication Technology services sector allowed for the identification of two profiles via a cluster analysis. These were mostly discriminated by financial resources and clients and not by science and technology activities. Subsequently, these profiles were related to innovation, top managers’ perceptions and expectations for the future. The data shows that under favourable contexts, innovation increases, the firm is perceived to drive innovation and confidence in the companies’ future emerges. In more unfavourable scenarios, innovation is compromised, the environment is perceived to block innovation and confidence is halted. This paper establishes companies’ profiles for the first time in Portugal and suggests that intra- and extra-organisational contexts have to be jointly tackled to foster present innovation and promote future activities.

Pau Brasil tem início em um gesto de negação da história do Brasil precedente à sua publicação. Seu mote inicial, que, apesar de breve, é apresentado já na primeira edição isolado em página inteira, anuncia que sua publicação se dá "por ocasião da descoberta do Brasil" (Andrade, [1925] 1 2003, p. 97). Obviamente, elementos próprios de um Brasil anterior à "descoberta" oswaldiana serão costurados na trama desse longo e heterogêneo poema, inspirador de uma invejável fortuna crítica. No entanto, esse gesto inicial, que nega dimensões a serem, de * Agradeço à Fapesp o financiamento da pesquisa de que este texto se origina.fato, abordadas no desenrolar do poema, anuncia uma postura de negação, ou supressão, de parte da herança cultural brasileira que atravessaria o poema por completo. Meu intuito é trazer à tona dessa trama poéti-ca uma dessas dimensões negadas no mote inicial mas retomadas repetidas vezes no corpo do poema: a figura do bandeirante, tão cara aos setores mais conservadores do período e surpreendentemente capaz de fazer emparelharem-se esses últimos e Pau Brasil, uma das expressões mais vanguardistas do modernismo paulista, embora ambos coloquem a questão de formas bastante diversas. Com isso será possível inserir o poema no debate de época, posicionando-o em um patamar de equivalência, embora não de semelhança ou de homogeneidade, com textos de naturezas diversas (sociológicos e historiográficos) para fazer saltarem os diferentes usos que as diversas perspectivas fizeram desse mito ressurgido no início do século XX. No confronto

The heavy economic, social, and psychological toll of pandemic lockdowns around the world and their disproportionate effect on women are widely acknowledged, but different socioeconomic backgrounds and contexts may influence the degree to which stay-at-home measures impact their lives. Additionally, knowing that violence against women tends to increase during times of crisis, we are testing if the additional burden of victimization represents an added load to the perceived social impacts of the lockdown. Using 2021 survey data from a random sample of 1541 Portuguese women, the paper explores, through logistic regression models, the social impact of the lockdown on the lives of women, its socioeconomic determinants, and the role played by violence against women during the pandemic. The results show that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown did not equally affect all facets of women’s social lives, and women with higher education status and that experienced income reductions due to the measures taken to control the pandemic are more prone to experience a more severe negative impact of the lockdown on the various facets of their lives. Additionally, having been a victim during the pandemic partially mediates the effect of education and income reduction on the social outcomes of the lockdown.

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