Dora Sampaio

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.

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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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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!

🌐 📚 Less than two weeks left to apply for these 2 PhD positions on #transnationalretirement! Deadline: August 15!

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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.

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).’

🌱 🌐 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 Netherlands and Turkey Want to investigate transnational retirement trajectories between the Netherlands and Turkey? Join us as a PhD candidate!

🌱 🌐 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...

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, ...

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

👏👏 super interesting!

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!

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!

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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📢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...

Great to be part of a larger discussion on return migration & ageing organised by @aijalulle.bsky.social, Russell King and Eralba Cela

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 ...

📒 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....

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.

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

*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

Just fresh off the press by the always-insightful @Yavuz Tuyloglu‬

Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

📢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...

So exciting, congratulations Megha!