The team is constituted by anthropologists working in a wide range of thematic fields who share a common theoretical approach to researching the interplay between social, political and economic dynamics. Senior team researchers working in different contexts have already argued that changes in social and economic policies in Portugal have promoted grassroots strategies for make a living in an uncertain present and an unpredictable future. This topic has been addressed in their previous work documenting a broad range of strategies to get by in crises situations, among incarcerated women, migrants and refugees. What remains to be done, is to situate these social relations and strategies within a broader theoretical framework that integrates them instead of opposing them to the general definitions of social political options in the country changing governments. This entails widening the focus to include aiming at insertion into the policy making universe.

 IR: Antónia Pedroso de Lima  | Co-IR Catarina Frois