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The arrival of these black Africans in Portugal, coupled with their difficulty in accessing full , enhanced, from the 1970s onwards, the processes of and . This is the result of multiple factors, from institutional and juridical, to socio-cultural (the construction of ), residential (with the concentration of black migrants in degraded in Lisbon area, although this does not occur elsewhere in the country) and economical (the poorly qualified professional and educational profile of the migrants). coupled with a parallel strengthening of black identity in African migrants, even surpassing national origins. In 2016, the UN committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination visited Portugal and recommended that Portugal implement specific measures for the Afro-descendent community, in as in cases where some black Portuguese, today full adults, are without citizenship even in cases where siblings can be full Portuguese citizens, such as those born before 1981 or after their parents become legal migrants.
Good thing we have our resident super secret undercover racist who's never been within 20ft of a black person in any intimate way to tell us this is all a lie.
Or we might get the unfounded idea that Portugal is actually far behind the US when it comes to overcoming the stain of slavery and the idiocy of racism.
Have you ever heard of anyone from a country that was colonized by Brazil being racist?