Portugal, female migration, breadwinning, undocumented migration, domestic work, globalisation, post-colonialism, social networks, social capital. - In my research I examine the situation of women from Eastern Europe who migrate alone to Portugal. Many had to leave behind their families and...

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its social capital by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas played...