ERASMUS STUDENTS IN PORTUGAL: THE PERCEPTION AND THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS

• Autor(a) principal: Padrão, Maria Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Guerra, Inês, Marnoto, Sandra, Padrão, Reinaldo, Olivrita, Clementina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/1794
• topic: Students; Erasmus; Financial crisis; Perception, narratives

Studies on social representations already seem to be relatively common in the field of Social Sciences. However, the particular circumstances being experienced throughout Europe as a result of the international crisis seem to bring with it new possibilities for analysis. It is in this context that falls this present analysis in which are presented the preliminary results of a larger study on the perception and experience of Erasmus students in Portugal within the economic environment in which we live in. Thus, we intend to initially assess the extent the financial crisis has had impact on the motivations and expectations of those students, later to suggest an interpretative model of these results. From a conceptual standpoint, we supported this analysis in international studies and on migratory phenomena studies. In terms of methodology we chose to carry out a questionnaire then subjected to statistical analysis.