Description of the integration initiative implemented
She arrived in Portugal 3 years ago, from São Paulo-Brazil, where she lived with her mother. She has a degree in Social Work and the objective of the migration was to take a master’s degree. She chose Portugal for its ease of language and cultural proximity. The first difficulty of this process was still felt in her country of origin and was related to obtaining a visa to come and study in the host country. Still in her country of origin, she sought information about Portugal, namely about Higher Education Institutions, about master's courses. In this collection of information, she used her personal contact network to obtain information through people who had already done postgraduate training in Portugal.
She arrived in Portugal the day her master's classes at the University of Minho began. Master's colleagues were an important support network. She got a job at an ice cream parlour that she reconciled with her studies. Her professional career is marked by precariousness, even when, through a teacher, she had access to a research grant. She is currently a researcher at the University of Coimbra, with another research grant, but this contract is also for only six months, she also reveals that the salary is better but the precariousness remains, she is currently enrolled in a PhD.
Regarding the social support network, she says that she felt support when she arrived with her colleagues from the Masters, some Portuguese, Brazilians, and Africans. Later, in the context of work, she also felt welcomed. She says, however, that her most stable social network is made up of her Brazilian friends that she has met over the past three years.

Personal story
She is 31 years old, has a degree in Social Work, her parents are divorced, in Brazil she lived with her mother, she has two brothers, one in São Paulo and the other in Berlin. She has a family background that has supported her financially in her migration project and who she can turn to when she feels the need. The intention to come to Portugal was related to the desire to prolong her studies and to obtain a master’s degree. Having reached that goal, she decided to extend her studies, and now she is doing her PhD.
She recognizes that in her country there is an enchantment for Europe which is reflected in a certain appreciation of the diplomas obtained outside Brazil and especially in Europe. In her case, she says that she never dreamt of living outside her country and that, for her, this situation is, for now, temporary. Her future projects only provide for her stay in Portugal if, from a professional point of view, a career opportunity arises in her training area.
In terms of identity, she considers that Brazilian culture is very present in her life, however she recognizes that whoever goes through a migration process, always changes. She considers that being Brazilian, white of middle class and living in Brazil, she would be much less exposed to some prejudices. In Portugal, as an immigrant woman, she experiences these situations, which she considers having been important to be much more empathetic, which, in her opinion, contributes to a substantial change in her way of thinking.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
This woman's migratory project is related to the demand for postgraduate training and her objectives, in the field of training and research, have been expanding in the host country, as opportunities and successes have appeared. The difficulties felt are related to the perception of a different treatment towards Brazilian women, who, according to the participant, are present in a transversal way in society, from the most undifferentiated work contexts to the academic environment.
The awareness of stereotyped treatment is very marked by the training of this young woman (in sociology) who, according to her, gave her the necessary tools to understand the situation and, simultaneously, allowed her to unleash strategies of resistance agency, empowerment and engagement in the face of adversities.
Another distinguishing feature of the discourse on inclusion is the statement that, despite being a woman and an immigrant, she positions herself in a situation of some privilege, since she is white, educated, and middle class, characteristics that turn out to be, in some way, protective in relation to discrimination, which according to her point of view is sharpened when the axes of subordination that she identifies in herself (being a woman and being an immigrant), are intersects with others such as being black and being Muslim.

Results and Impact
This migratory path is initiated by the search for higher education and, therefore, stems from a strategy of attracting international students by Portuguese HEIs. Through the development of her academic path, she had access to a research grants that allowed an increased income and the prospect of expanding training. Now, she is a PhD student and is part of a research team from a different University from the one where she started her training in the host country.

From the point of view of the social support network, the relevance of informal groups of immigrants of the same nationality is underlined. It should also be noted that cultural proximity, the similarity of the experience of being alone in a foreign country, ends up fostering bonds of solidarity and support that are seen as a security.
The understanding of the social mechanisms that generate inequality and multiple discrimination, translates into everyday activism that identifies, signals situations of discrimination and intervenes socially in the fight against stereotypes and prejudices.