Housing is unaffordable. Migrants are a flashpoint issue. The far right is here to stay. And Portugal is deeply divided.


Ana Naomi de Sousa is a filmmaker and journalist. She is the director of: Hacking Madrid; The Architecture of Violence; Guerrilla Architect; and Angol... a Birth of a Movement.
Housing is unaffordable. Migrants are a flashpoint issue. The far right is here to stay. And Portugal is deeply divided.

Vulnerable residents, mostly second-generation immigrants, appeal ‘arbitrary’ evictions in a town near Lisbon.
![Adriano Kuzingami and his two children on the remains of their home, in Segundo Torrao [Ana Naomi de Sousa/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Adriano_Kuzingami.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Neo-Nazi activist Mario Machado accuses anti-racism campaigner Mamadou Ba of ‘injuring his honour’ on social media.

Ihor Homenyuk was detained at a Lisbon airport on March 10 last year and died two days later after being beaten.
![A protester pays tribute to Ihor Homenyuk during a World Against Racism demonstration organised by Núcleo Antifascista do Porto (Antifascist Porto) [File: Teresa Nunes/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1231863939.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
There has been little acknowledgement of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now.
![A map published for Portugal’s 1934 Colonial Exhibition, held in Porto. It is entitled: “Portugal is not a small country” and shows the size of Portugal’s empire at the time as if super-imposed over a map of Europe [Courtesy of Paulo Moreira]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PORTUGAL_NAO_E_UM_PAIS_PEQUENO.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Agricultural labourers from India, Nepal and Pakistan work in greenhouses during the day and learn Portuguese at night.
![Many farm workers who come to Portugal are from Asia and Africa [Ana Naomi de Sousa/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sao-Teotonio-town1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Black business owners say they are treated differently to white people, as pandemic highlights structural inequalities.

Outcry in several cities after 39-year-old father of three was killed at point-blank range in Lisbon.

One officer jailed, and others handed suspended sentences, after convictions for kidnapping and violence.

Six alleged victims say officers beat them until they bled and were bruised and forced them into humiliating positions.
