This chapter focuses on Nepalese immigrant community living in Portugal and on how immigrants use different mediafrom receiving country, homeland and global sourcesto preserve the links with the home country in the process of integration into the new society. The study also analyses how the media (mainstream) of the country of settlement are used to learn its language (Portuguese). Theoretically, the research is based on the model of uses and gratifications of media (Katz & Blumler, 1974), on Berry's model of acculturation strategies (Berry, 2001) and on Bourdieu's theory of power and practice (Bourdieu, 1991), specifically in what concerns language as symbolic power. The methodology relied on 17 questionnaires and eight in-depth interviews. The results of the study show the importance that media have at different periods of immigrant s' lives, depending on the level of integration into the receiving society. In forming a new identity where values and customs of different cultures mix together, in adjusting to a new place of living and in maintaining connections to familial and cultural past, immigrants find in media tools that help them overcome some of the key barriers inherent to the migration process, in particular, the learning of the new country's language.
Este artigo tem como foco a comunidade portuguesa de Macau e procura perceber como se integra atualmente na região, tendo em conta dois acontecimentos marcantes na história recente. Um, na região de acolhimento – a entrega do território à República Popular da China, em 1999; outro, no país de origem – a crise económica iniciada em 2008. Recorrendo a 24 entrevistas em profundidade com posterior análise de conteúdo, o objetivo é fazer, por um lado, uma reflexão sobre o processo migratório que leva novos imigrantes a Macau e que faz regressar ao território outros que já ali tinham vivido. Por outro, entender como se redefine identitariamente uma comunidade em mudança num território que procura, também ele, uma nova identidade.
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