The push-pull factors analyzed in these works were obviously important, but for the most part, they ignore the condition that if international labor flows are indeed demand-oriented, the response of each individual does not depend on the evolution of the labor market in the host country alone. Indeed, the evolution of migration after 1974 clearly reflects the impact of other factors, namely, the political sanctions of the recipient nations and the strength of migrant networks active at both ends of the trajectory. Without taking these factors into consideration, how can the extremely low migratory flows of the period be explained?
Economic recession in most of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries after the mid-1970s, and conditions in Portugal in the aftermath of the 1974 Revolution, were aggravated by the forced return of four hundred thousand Portuguese from the former African colonies, along with one hundred thousand troops. Emigration was abruptly halted by the receiving societies in the early 1970s, which aggravated the economic situation. All these factors, plus the legal prohibition of firing and dismissing employees, led the private sector to avoid new permanent labor contracts. This change, in turn, brought about major changes in the national labor market. Stahl, Perspectivas da emigraзгo; I. J. Seccombe and R. J. Lawless, “Some New Trends in Mediterranean Labour Migration: The Middle East Connection” International Migration 23:1 (1985), 123-48; Barosa and Pereira, “Economic Integration and Labour Flows.”
Unemployment jumped from 86,000 in 1974 to 222,000 in 1975, and continued to grow. In 1980 the number of unemployed was 340,000, and by 1983, the figure had reached 446,000 thousand, or 10.5 percent of the active population. Furthermore, as economists Jose Barosa and Pedro Pereira note, “[measured] unemployment does not tell the whole story, as a survey of the Ministry of Labor found 95,000 workers in 1983 to be wageless.” Barosa and Pereira, “Economic Integration and Labour Flows,” 13. As they also point out, the labor market began to show signs of recovery in 1979, after new legislation in October 1977 gave the private sector flexibility to hire workers over a fixed period. Unemployment finally decreased, dropping to 8.5 percent in 1985, to 7 percent in 1987, and to 5.7 percent in 1988. Even today, an increasing number of the new jobs are still based on short-term contracts.
As noted earlier, Portuguese migratory flows to Europe peaked in 1970 and tended to decrease thereafter, but it was only after the oil crisis 1973-74 that great and sudden reductions were observed. The drop in migrant workers was even greater, at least until 1986. For France, the data indicate that workers dominated the migratory flow to that country until 1971. Between 1972 and 1977, their relative share fell but remained significant. From 1978 to 1985, the flow was overwhelmingly composed of family members. For 1987-89, the three last years for which information is available, workers were dominant, although less than before; they represented 74 percent of the 17,000 immigrants arriving in France.
Deteriorating economic conditions and mass return migration from the former colonies undoubtedly increased migratory pressure in this period; annual average departures, however, fell from 122,000 per year between 1968 and 1975 to 22,000 per year between 1976 and 1988. Economic factors alone cannot explain the contraction in flows in the latter period. Restrictive migratory policies in the traditional recipient countries and the lack of sizable migratory networks functioning in other destinations left potential migrants temporarily without alternatives. Portuguese scholars wrote the obituary for Portuguese emigration to Europe in 1985 at an international meeting called “Portugal and Europe: The End of a Migratory Cycle.” Amadeu Paiva, Portugal e a Europa. O fim de um ciclo migratуrio (Lisbon: IED-CEDEP, 1985). It was too soon, however. Indeed, Portuguese emigration to Europe is, once again, a significant phenomenon. In fact, a new European migratory cycle, this time mainly directed to Switzerland, took off during the 80's. Just between 1986 and 1993 more than 117,000 Portuguese permanent immigrants entered that country. See the publications by Baganha cited in note I; and Baganha and Joгo Peixoto, “Trends in the `90s: The Portuguese Migratory Experience” in, Immigration in Southern Europe Maria I. Baganha (ed.), Oieras, Celta, 1997:15-40. It should come as no surprise if in some years' time, we see the Portuguese landscape enriched with a new set of houses, perhaps labeled Swiss houses. When they appear, they will once again give evidence of Portugal's most constant modern historical phenomenon: emigration.
TABLE 10.6 Portuguese Emigration by Destination, 1950-1988
Brazil
USA
Canada
Total
Overseas
France
Germany
Other Europe
Total Europe
%
1950
14,143
938
-
21,491
319
1
81
401
21,892
1.83
1951
28,104
676
33,341
418
2
254
674
34,015
1.98
1952
41,518
582
46,544
650
4
209
863
47,407
1.82
1953
32,159
1,455
39,026
690
246
936
39,962
2.34
1954
29,943
1,918
40,234
747
205
956
41,190
2.32
1955
18,486
1,328
28,690
1,336
121
1,457
30,147
4.83
1956
16,814
1,503
1,612
26,072
1,851
6
167
2,024
28,096
7.20
1957
19,931
1,628
4.158
32,150
4,640
5
99
4,744
36,894
l2.86
1958
19,829
1,596
1,619
29,207
6,264
l27
6,393
35,600
17.96
1959
16,400
4,569
3,961
29,780
4,838
130
4,974
34,754
14.31
1960
12,451
5,679
4,895
28,513
6,434
54
158
6,646
35,159
18.90
1961
16,073
3,370
2,635
27,499
10,492
277
304
11,073
38,572
28.71
1962
13,555
2,425
2,739
24,376
16,798
1,393
435
18,626
43,002
43.31
1963
11,281
2,922
3,424
22,420
29,843
2,118
837
32,798
55,218
59.40
1964
4,929
1,601
4,770
17,232
51,668
4,771
1,905
58,344
75,576
77.20
1965
3,051
1,852
5,197
17,557
60,267
12,197
1,467
73,931
91,488
80.81
1966
2,607
13,357
6,795
33,266
63,611
11,250
3,868
78,729
111,995
70.30
1967
3,271
11,516
6,615
28,584
59,597
4,070
2,461
66,128
94,712
69.82
1968
3,512
10,841
6,833
27,014
58,741
8,435
2,037
69,213
96,227
71.93
1969
2,537
13,111
6,502
27,383
110,614
15,406
2,269
128,289
155,672
82.41
1970
1,669
9,726
6,529
22,659
135,667
22,915
1,964
160,546
183,205
87.63
1971
1,200
8,839
6,983
21,962
110,820
24,273
1,418
136,511
158,473
86.14
1972
1,158
7,574
6,845
20,l22
68,692
24,946
1,785
95,423
115,545
82.59
1973
890
8,160
7,403
22,091
63,942
38,444
5,255
107,641
129,732
82.97
1974
729
9,540
11,650
25,822
37,727
13,352
3,958
55,037
80,859
68.07
1975
1,553
8,975
5,857
19,304
23,436
8,177
1,569
33,182
52,486
63.22
1976
7,499
3,585
14,762
17,919
5,913
598
24,430
39,192
62.33
1977
557
6,748
2,280
14,826
13,265
4,835
750
18,850
33,676
55.97
1978
323
8,171
1,871
16,307
7,406
4,509
636
12,551
28,858
43.49
1979
215
8,181
2,805
17,532
5,987
4,400
807
11,194
28,726
38.97
1980
230
4,999
2,334
15,281
5,200
4,000
692
9,892
25,173
39.30
1981
228
4,295
2,196
14,498
8,600
3,100
409
12,109
26,607
45.51
1982
187
1,889
1,484
9,420
17,900
1,900
285
20,085
29,505
1983
197
2,437
823
6,242
6,300
1,500
166
7,966
14,208
56.07
1984
2,651
764
5,747
4,600
1,400
116
6,116
11,863
51.56
1985
136
2,783
791
5,842
1,600
109
5,709
11,551
49.42
1986
91
2,704
983
5,024
1,800
280
5,180
10,204
50.76
1987
28
2,643
3,398
7,757
400
3,658
11,415
32.05
1988
21
2,112
5,646
8,934
600
3,600
198
4,398
13,332
32.99
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