Portugal, a destination to work
During these days, he was working in Cape Verde, where steps will be taken in an agreement that aims to recruit and train a green worker to come to Portugal. It is the first configuration of several CPLP cities, which are estimated in a series of cities in which they are in thousands of cities like our tourism.
The lack of manpower is not surprising in an aging number that will, in the coming years, have difficulty in renewing the active population, resorting to change. Not so the public services were prepared to speed up and respond to the wave of people who arrived. The Aliens and Borders Service currently confirms 25,000 applicants for scheduling an interview that allows them to regulate the situation, a response that on average is taking two years.
Without a residence permit, immigrants cannot leave the country, seeing limited rights as simple as visiting their families. Although an interim solution allows it, as it opens up with ease and increase verification security and less. An immigrant in this situation is always more fragile, therefore more exposed to labor exploitation, entering housing or other abuses.
Creating agreements and carrying out campaigns to promote Portugal as a destination for digital nomads is of little use when the authorities do not fulfill their role of welcoming and providing conditions for all those who ask us to work and live. Immigrants are the only country of culture in the low birth rate, an invaluable reinforcement of the population in culture and social diversity. As long as not with open arms, with full rights in fact open and without inconsistency between political discourse and everyday practice, to get poorer.
Director of “Jornal de Notícias”