<scp>MIGRANT URBANISM</scp>: Cape Verdean Djunta‐mon and its Impact on the Built Environment of Cova da Moura (Lisbon)

International migrations are transforming the urban landscape in cities all around world. In this article I address effect of Cape Verdean migration on built environment Lisbon's periphery. Specifically, analyse a traditional practice mutual aid originating rural Verde, djunta-mon system, as device migrant urbanism projected onto Cova da Moura neighbourhood. article, which is based ethnographic fieldwork, discuss role evolution neighbourhood from its formation 1970s to present day. The data collected shows that has had an important appropriation, functional delimitation and significance space by residents. results thus point importance understanding how cultures identities human groups crystallize through processes social production space.