As you know, Portugal has been for years an emmigrant country, but nowadays that ''classification'' has changed and we receive a lot more immigrants than the other countries receive Portuguese emmigrants.
See the chart below:
   

As you can see on this chart, the Cape Verdians after being for years and years the largest group of immigrants in Portugal, the Brazilians had taken their '1st place'.
These movements to Portugal started in the 90s, and the main countries which people came from were and still being Brazil and African people from the ex-Portuguese colonies. 

The newest movements are from the east Europe (Ukrain, Romania..) and an Asiatic country - China.

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Obviously, it is not only people looking for better life conditions that come to Portugal but also people from richer countries such as Spain, The UK, The Netherlands and Germany. Usually the Dutch, British, German look for a better quality of life but not for economic purposes, just to find warmer weather, more security and they live in rich places, the Spanish is a bit different because they come to work as Medical Doctors, nurses etc..

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That graphic show us that our country has a lot of people naturalised Portuguese from every continent.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Portugal

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