Dora Sampaio (PhD Human Geography, Sussex) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she explored the (im)mobilities of transnational ageing and caregiving with a focus on ageing Brazilian parents and their migrant offspring in North America and Europe, taught at the University of Sussex, and was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon, where she collaborated in a number of international projects in the field of Migration Studies. Her research interests include international migration, life course, intergenerational relationships, socio-spatial inequalities, and urban displacement, primarily in Brazil and Portugal.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 765 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-9989 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@dsdora21 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dora_Sampaio |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University
University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Assistant Professor -
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Research Institute, Goettingen, Germany
Research Associate -
Universiteit Utrecht
Other, Utrecht, Netherlands
Assistant Professor -
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Research Institute, Göttingen, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher -
University of Sussex
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
Doctoral Tutor -
University of Sussex / Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
PhD Researcher -
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
Other, Lisboa, Portugal
Research Fellow
Research
Ageing, agency and work: Brazilian older adults building spaces of opportunity in the United States
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Transnational families, care and wellbeing: The role of legal status and sibling relationships across borders
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Rui F. Carvalho |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Wellbeing, Space and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Caring by Silence: How (Un)documented Brazilian Migrants Enact Silence as a Care Practice for Aging Parents
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ageing strategically: On migration, care, and diversity in later life
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Languages of othering and cultural hybridity. Transnational cultures of ageing in the context of return to the Azores
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ageing & Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘It's not everybody that wants to stay on a remote island’: Understanding distinction in the context of lifestyle migrants growing older in the Azores
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Russell King |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Rural Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geographies of the ageing-migration nexus: An introduction
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Russell King, Katie Walsh |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Area | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A place to grow older … alone? Living and ageing as a single older lifestyle migrant in the Azores
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Area | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
AGEING ‘HERE’ OR ‘THERE’? SPATIO -TEMPORALITIES IN OLDER LABOUR MIGRANTS’ RETURN ASPIRATIONS FROM THE AZORES
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Finisterra | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unpacking the ageing–migration nexus and challenging the vulnerability trope
| Authors | Russell King, Aija Lulle, Julie Vullnetari, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 10 |
Language proficiency among immigrants and the establishment of interethnic relations: A comparative analysis of Bilbao, Lisbon and Rotterdam
| Authors | Alina Esteves, Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Finisterra | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
The emotional politics of return migration: Negotiating im/mobilities across borders and generations
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
The emotional politics of return migration: Negotiating im/mobilities across borders and generations
| Authors | Dora Sampaio |
| Year | 2025 |
Teaching gender under the rise of postfeminism
| Authors | Marielle Zill, Krisztina Varró, Elisa Fiore, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies |