| Summary: | Between 1960 and 1968, the Portuguese government managed modernization, economic growth and trade openness to Europe in an ambiguous way. This processes that profoundly transformed the society have not been politically accepted. This contradiction is obvious regarding the emigration policy. Although emigration was linked to the modernization process, the government has never liberalized the departures, in order to please the conservative wing, hostile to the emigration. However, Portuguese left the country clandestinely. The clandestine trips did not result of the state’s failure but were a solution that had been used by the government to conciliate two incompatible requirements.
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