The current economical crisis triggered a cycle of emigration among Portuguese graduates. Unable to find job opportunities, graduates, masters and doctors apply for jobs, impelled by the freedom of movement for citizens of the European Union and the internationalization of higher education with the Bologna Process. The Portuguese emigration of graduates is reflected as a capital strategy in recruiting skilled workforce and surplus work and by workers in facing with unemployment in some countries.
Capital crisis; Emigration of Portuguese social workers; Bologna Process.