This work is a result of the project "Research on migration and biographical approach: building a collaborative work in the Portuguese context", developed at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and Financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This study is a proposed collaborative work between researchers from the social sciences and immigrants residing in that city the center of Portugal. More specifically, it seeks to study and understand the migration experience of immigrants with very diverse backgrounds and profiles they chose - in one form or another - the city of Coimbra to live. The objectives of departure of this work derive from our privileged focus on experiences and biographical accounts of the subjects our interlocutors: 1) what is the perspective of migrants on their migratory experience? 2) the impact of biographical research on the lives of migrants and immigration society? 3) how to recognize the subjects of communication beyond a merely objectificant purpose of the research? It is proposed here to make a reflection in dialogue with the theoretical frameworks of emancipatory biographical research as well as shared or participatory research in social sciences.
biography; migration; immigration; biographical accounts