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Ferraz, David (2026). When Public Administration Matters for Migration and Social Protection Sustainability in Portugal. IASIA 2025 Annual Conference will take place in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 13 to 17, 2025,,.

D. A. Ferraz,  "When Public Administration Matters for Migration and Social Protection Sustainability in Portugal ", in  IASIA 2025 Annu. Conf. will take place in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 13 to 17, 2025,, Roma, 2026

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	author = "Ferraz, David",
	title = "When Public Administration Matters for Migration and Social Protection Sustainability in Portugal ",
	year = "2026",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)",
	url = "https://iias-iisa.org/iasia-2025-conference/"
}

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AB  - his article examines immigration in Portugal from a public administration perspective
and asks to what extent the sustainability of social protection depends not only on
demographic change, but also on the state’s capacity to integrate migrants in a timely,
coordinated, and verifiable manner. The argument has two parts. First, immigration
currently tends to strengthen, rather than weaken, the contributory base of Portuguese
social security, given the high proportion of foreign residents of working age and their
growing participation in the formal labour market. Second, this potential can be lost when
public administration relies on fragmented procedures, burdensome interactions, limited
interoperability, and insufficient operational capacity. The study combines a review of
public administration scholarship on state capacity, coordination, digital governance,
administrative burdens, and public value with a documentary analysis of Portuguese and
European sources on migration, social security, and digital transformation. It develops an
analytical framework in which administrative capacity, digital governance, and early
formal integration are treated as mutually reinforcing conditions for translating human
mobility into financial sustainability and social cohesion. From both a normative and an
operational perspective, the relevant policy choice for Portugal is not a simplistic
opposition between openness and restriction. It is the construction of a more integrated,
digitally capable, responsive, measurable, and territorially coordinated public
administration. 
ER  -