Departing from the Portuguese context this project aims at understanding how other States mobilize cultural, social and economic resources in contexts of crisis and vulnerability. More than a mere acknowledgement of the State of the art on the public policies in each Country, we are finding that different generations response differently to the crises situations that they experience. The work will be organized through four tasks each different countries in order to understand and analyze how policies are designed in different generations and various scenarios, and how these same policies are experienced by the subject to which these same policies are aimed at: young street in Maputo; Youth, international migration and Social reproduction; Anthropology, public policy and Global governance; Care and Aging in the interstices of Welfare States.