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Dora Sampaio
@dorasampaio.bsky.social
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Human Geographer | Transnational Mobilities | Life Course | Wellbeing | Assist Prof Human Geography @UtrechtUniversity
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'Towards geographies of silence: Unspoken boundaries' by @dorasampaio.bsky.social

This paper examines silence as a boundary-making practice in geographically distant relationships within transnational families living across Brazil & the U.S.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Dora Sampaio (2025) entitled: 'Towards Geographies of Silence: Unspoken Boundaries' with a red banner at the top. Despite its social and spatial significance, silence remains an under-explored and under-theorised subject in geography. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining silence as a boundary-making practice in geographically distant relationships. Silence as boundary-making is used as a new frame for conceptualising transnational intergenerational acts of care and the complexity that characterises transnational family life. These conceptual discussions are empirically examined through the experiences of transnational families whose lives stretch between Brazil and the United States. The analysis shows how research participants conceal, select, avoid, redirect and reframe conversations in order to sustain and protect relationships embedded in, and strongly affected by, broader structures of inequality. The paper puts forth a fourfold typology of silence as boundary-making and shows how these evolving boundaries, shaped by tacit agreements, tactics of withdrawal and self-disciplining, function as acts of care and ways to avoid negative emotions, self-preservation, controlling self-image and as forms of resistance and empowerment. The paper's conceptual discussion and typology lay the foundation for a broader research agenda that attends to the significance of silence in geographical research.
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
🌐 📚 Less than two weeks left to apply for these 2 PhD positions on #transnationalretirement! Deadline: August 15!

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PhD Candidate in Transnational Retirement across the Netherlands and Turkey
Want to investigate transnational retirement trajectories between the Netherlands and Turkey? Join us as a PhD candidate!
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August 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Honoured to join @swessendorf.bsky.social in presenting Barking & Dagenham findings at today’s @mpimmg.bsky.social celebration honouring Steven Vertovec’s contributions to the field of migration studies.
Speaker presenting a slide titled Representations: Ethos of Decelopment
June 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
🌱 🌐 PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project RETIREWEL on transnational retirement mobilities! The PhD will carry out multi-sited, in-depth qualitative fieldwork across the United Kingdom and India. Application deadline August 15!
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PhD Candidate in Transnational Retirement across the United Kingdom and India
Join us in the project ‘Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry (RETIREWEL).’
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June 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
🌱 🌐 PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project RETIREWEL on transnational retirement mobilities! The PhD will carry out multi-sited, in-depth qualitative fieldwork across the Netherlands and Turkey. Application deadline August 15! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Candidate in Transnational Retirement across the Netherlands and Turkey
Want to investigate transnational retirement trajectories between the Netherlands and Turkey? Join us as a PhD candidate!
www.uu.nl
June 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Interested in the role of urban infrastructures in territorial stigma? In IJURR's @ijurresearch.bsky.social latest online issue I draw on case of labour migrants to argue how spatial + social 'taint' interlock in complex, competing ways in Indian cities #urban #infrastructure #migrants #labour
INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City
The city as an exclusionary place for migrants is widely established across global literatures. Global cities—and the infrastructures that animate them—share practices of surveillance and bordering, ...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be starting my ERC-StG project RETIREWEL today. We’ll be looking at transnational retirement in a rapidly changing, uneven world. More updates soon, watch this space!
April 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
Interested in cultural diversity and transnational families? No dia 20 de Março, 14.30 tenho o prazer de falar sobre o silêncio como estabelecimento de limites nos cuidado intergeracionais. Obrigada, Sofia Gaspar e Rita Cachado pelo convite e Ana Caetano pelo comentário!
March 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
Foi um prazer falar com a Associação Portuguesa de Geógrafos / Portuguese Association of Geographers sobre o papel da geografia e como tornar o trabalho geográfico ainda mais visível. Obrigada, André Carmo e Pedro Rego

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February 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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📢PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project ‘WELL-ASIA’ @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social on the wellness industry in Southeast Asia! The PhD will work ethnographically on transnational labour mobilities in Singapore’s wellness sector 🌏Applications due April 16! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
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February 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
📒 In my latest article, I write about the *emotional politics of return migration*, showing the need to complicate purely rational approaches and carefully consider the role of emotions in orientations towards return onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The emotional politics of return migration: Negotiating im/mobilities across borders and generations
In this article, I engage with the return migration and ageing nexus from an intergenerational vantage point. I build on the analytical power of emotions to argue for paying careful attention to the ...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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mitra-sc.bsky.social
THIS IS A KIND REMINDER that the deadline for applying for the MITRA PhD Training and Symposium is February 20, 2025! Keynote lectures, interactive workshop, networking, joint publication opportunity and much more! Find more here: www.uu.nl/en/events/im... @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social
IMISCOE MITRA Standing Committee PhD Training & Symposium
In this symposium and workshop we seek to gain a better understanding of how international students navigate changing sociopolitical landscapes.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
dorasampaio.bsky.social
*III Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Geografias Emocionais* Interessado em geografias emocionais? Considere submeter um resumo! O prazo de submissão de trabalhos é até 24 de março de 2025
February 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Just fresh off the press by the always-insightful @Yavuz Tuyloglu‬
January 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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📢Come work with me! 3 year postdoc on my new @LeverhulmeTrust project exploring how the second generation establish a sense of worth and belonging in professional workplaces in the UK - DL 5 Feb, please share jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/8450715f...
Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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January 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM