teaches and researches since 1990. Was Assistant Director of the Centre for Society and Communication Studies and Director for the Masters in Communication Sciences. Currently is the Director of the Communication Sciences Department of Minho University and takes part in several research projects both national and international, mainly in the following study areas: diversity and intercultural communication, social memory, social representations, social identities, stereotypes and social discrimination.Her articles are published in several scientific journals, national and international. Is the author of "Preto e Branco: A naturalizacao da discriminacao racial" (Black and White: the naturalization of racial discrimination) (Campo das Letras, 2007) and co-author of "Comunicacao Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios" (Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas and Challenges) (Campo das Letras, 2008). Is co-publisher of the previous two editions of the International Yearbook on Lusophone Communication (LUSOCOM/SOPCOM/CECS/Gracio Editor).14.30 15.00 The Lusophone space from the migration and media perspectiveIsabel Ferin Cunha. Researcher at CIMJ; Associate Professor at the Institute for Journalistic Studies of the Letters Faculty of Coimbra University. Areas of Research: Media and Migrations; Television Fiction, Communication Methodologies. Among others author of: Ferin Cunha, I. (coord.)(2008), Media, Imigracao e Minorias Etnicas III (Media, Imigration and Ethnic Minorities III) Lisbon:OI/Alto Comissariado para a Imigracao e Minorias Etnicas (High Comissionar for Imigration and Ethnic Minorities); Ferin Cunha, I. (coord.) (2007), Jornalismo e Democracia (Journalism and Democracy), Lisbon: Paulus; Ferin Cunha, I. (coord.) (2006), A Televisao das Mulheres: Ensaios sobre a Recepcao (Womens Television: Essays on Reception), Lisbon: Quimera/Bond; Ferin Cunha, I. (coord.) (2006), Media, Imigracao e Minorias Etnicas II (Media, Imigration and Ethnic Minorities II), Lisbon: OI/Alto Comissariado para a Imigracao e Minorias Etnicas (High Comissionar for Imigration and Ethnic Minorities).With this paper we aim at promoting the discussion concerning the existence of a migratory system inside the Lusophone space from the perspective of people and media contents circulation. Therefore, the concept of Lusophone world and space becomes complex when taking into account colonial history, post-colonial analysis, globalization/localization strategies and diaspora. By focusing the discussion in the migratory system in Portugal we regain the world-system concept developed by Braudel (1949) and Wallerstein (2004) in the migratory phemomenon analysis. We then discuss the existence of a Lusophone space flowing into the Iberian-American space, in which people and contents circulate, bound to the language (and to the linguistic root), to history and to a shared imaginary world. Above all, these issues are not just analyzed by authors concerned with migrations (Kritz and Zlotnik,1992; Peixoto, 2008 and Baganha, 2009), in diaspora and media (Anderson, 2005; Appadurai; 2004; Barbero,1997; Barker,1997; Bhabha,2007; Canclini, 1999 and Gilroy, 2001; 2007) but also in empirical studies on migrations and in the media.15.30-16.00 Challenges for Citizenship in the Context of Left-Wing Politics in Latin America: The Case of Brazil Marieke Riethof. Lecturer in Latin American politics, departmentof Cultures, Languages and Area Studies and Fellow at RILAS Research Institute of Latin America Studies, both University of Liverpool. She is an expert on Latin American politics, in particular the politics of and international relations of Brazil and the Southern Cone. Her research focuses on the role of