This paper draws on a multidisciplinary study of state policy, housing provision, and the social question in Porto, Portugal, over the past half century, combining ethnography, in-depth interviews, and a survey of local families. It examines the trajectory of one of the city's largest and most notorious public housing estates to map out how transformations in its social composition and in the mix of state action have affected how residents deal with the disparaging public image attached to their place of residence. Against analytical simplification, we spotlight responses to territorial stigmatization that muddle the 'exit-voice' or 'conformity-rejection' dichotomies and reveal the social parameters that determine the symbolic boundaries, sociability patterns, and daily faceto-face interactions found in this housing estate. Strategies of 'subsistence sociability' and 'focused avoidance' have enabled local families to cope with the spatial taint hovering over their bairro while avoiding both the high costs of exit and the uncertain investment in collective action.

Current results do not provide conclusive evidence on the effect of BCG vaccination on COVID-19 alone or in combination with other factors. To address this limitation, in this study we used a citizen science initiative on the COVID-19 pandemic to collect data worldwide during 2 October 2020-30 October 2020 (1,233 individuals) in a structured way for analysing factors and characteristics of affected individuals in relation to BCG vaccination. For the first time, the results of our study suggested that vaccination with BCG may increase the risk for COVID-19 at certain age, particularly in individuals vaccinated at childhood. Childhood BCG vaccination increased the likelihood of being diagnosed with COVID-19 fivefold in COVID-19 low-incidence countries and threefold in high-incidence countries. A reasonable explanation for this effect is the activation of certain innate immunity mechanisms associated with inflammatory reactions. These factors should be considered when analysing the risks associated with this global pandemic.

This article tries to broaden the research agenda on territorial stigmatisation. It reviews some theoretical arguments on the relevance of a relational sociological reading of the processes of territorial stigmatisation, and proposes a study of these processes during a period of political revolution and social instability, through discussion of the case presented by the city of Porto, Portugal, in the mid-1970s. Based on the study of institutional archives, ethnographic work in several neighbourhoods, and semi-structured interviews with social actors involved in these processes, the article describes the urban and housing conditions of inner city Porto’s working-class boroughs in the first three quarters of the 20th century and discusses the forms of political and social resistance taken up by residents from the most dilapidated neighbourhoods following the revolution of April 1974. The sociological analysis of the actions that gave origin to the voice of the residents in the historic centre of the city in this period reveals significant interaction with the processes of territorial stigmatisation, via organised collective resistance.

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Entre cá e lá. Notas de uma pesquisa sobre a emigração para Espanha de operários portugueses da construção civil Between here and there. Notes of a survey on emigration to Spain of Portuguese construction workers Entre ici et là. Notes d'une enquête sur l'émigration vers l'Espagne des travailleurs de la construction portugaise

Resumo Decorridos dez anos sobre o arranque da estratégia de reabilitação urbana do centro do Porto posta em marcha pela Câmara Municipal através da Porto Vivo, Sociedade de Reabilitação Urbana, o presente artigo propõe alguns resultados de uma investigação sociológica de terreno dedicada à evidenciação das principais transformações físicas e sociais resultantes da aplicação daquela estratégia. No texto, é dado destaque quer à leitura das principais tendências de recomposição do tecido social registadas no centro histórico do Porto, quer ao modo com os moradores de longa data deste território percebem e interpretam as implicações dos processos de reabilitação-gentrificação da sua área de residência. Palavras-chave: Reabilitação urbana; gentrificação; moradores; centro histórico do Porto. Urban rehabilitation policies and social change in Porto's historic center: residents' perspectives on their recent evolution Abstract A decade has passed since Porto's city council, through its "urban rehabilitation agency", put forward a renewed strategy aiming at the urban "rehabilitation" of the city's historic center. This paper presents some of the results of a field research willing to highlight the main physical and social transformations resulting from the materialization of that strategy. The paper scrutinizes some of the major changes in the social fabric of Porto's historic center and analyzes how longtime residents interpret and deal with the implications of the rehabilitation-cumgentrification of their place of residence.

This chapter presents some results of fieldwork-based research into the transformations affecting the professional, geographical and social mobility strategies of construction workers throughout the years of economic and social crisis Portugal faced from the beginning of the 2000s-but especially after 2008. Its main goal was to arrive at an empirical and analytical sociological understanding of these transformations. Building on the results of previous work on this topic (

A science‐based participatory process guided by EFSA identified 10 priority zoonotic pathogens for future One Health surveillance in Europe: highly pathogenic avian influenza, swine influenza, West Nile disease, tick‐borne‐encephalitis, echinococcosis, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, hepatitis E, Lyme disease, Q‐fever, Rift Valley fever. The main aim of this report is to formulate recommendations and technical specifications for sustainable coordinated One health surveillance for early detection of these zoonotic pathogens where wildlife is implicated. For this purpose: (i) first, we reviewed the cornerstones of integrated wildlife monitoring that are applicable to zoonotic disease surveillance in wildlife under OH surveillance in the EU; (ii) we analysed the characteristics of the main wildlife groups and the selected pathogens relevant to surveillance aimed at early detection, and integrated with other health compartments; (iii) we proposed general recommendations for the first steps of sustainable wildlife zoonotic disease surveillance in the EU, and (iv) specific recommendations of surveillance aimed at risk based early detection of pathogens in the main wild species groups. We finally proposed (iv) a framework for integrating animal disease surveillance components (wildlife, domestic, environment) for early detection under OH approach.