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Maria Manuela Mendes
Maria Manuela Mendes is a professor at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Architecture (FAUL). She has been a researcher at CIES, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa since 2008 and is a member at the Centre for Research Architecture, Urban Planning and Design (CIAUD- FAUL) and of the Institute of Sociology, Porto University (ISFLUP). Her research interests are ethnicity, immigration, city and diversity, social and spatial exclusion, local development, relocation and disqualified territories. Recent publications include Estudo Nacional sobre as Comunidades Ciganas (National Study about Ciganos Communities) (with Olga Magano and Pedro Candeias, 2014), ‘Shaping ways of managing diversity in Portuguese schools from the student’s perspective’ (with Pedro Caetano, Revue Internationale de Sociologie, 24:2, 2014, pp. 325–44) and ‘Immigrant perceptions of ethnic and racial discrimination: Patterns and singularities in a council of Lisbon Metropolitan Area’ (with Pedro Candeias, International Review of Sociology, 23:2, 2013, pp. 400–19).