Migrações, saúde e integração social: análise ilustrada pelos portugueses em França

The conditions of immigrants' life in France, particularly those of the Portuguese people, allow us to understand the inflections of their projects and the way the relation between health and the process of social integration takes place. In this study, three crucial issues are considered. The first one studies the aspects that involve health and illness. The second regards the migrant's body and its respective representations and highlights a set of interpretations for such purpose. The third is the attempt to understand a relationship between health, the sanitary effects resulting from the professional and social conditions under which the Portuguese live inside the French society, and their process of social integration. The methodology consists of a dynamic and comprehensive perspective, based on longitudinal empirical studies of these issues