Dr. Dora Martins Sampaio

Assistant Professor
International Development Studies
d.i.martinssampaio@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Mallick, B., Hunter, L. M., Ackerly, B., Priodarshini, R., Kelman, I., Boas, I., Castro, B., Czaika, M., Ahmed, B., Ahsan, N., Arboleda, M., Bailey, A., Bayrak, M., Best, K., Carrico, A., Draper, J., Etzold, B., Farbotko, C., Gain, A., ... van den Berg, J. (2025). Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience. Nature Climate Change, 15, 1257-1260. [DOI]
Sampaio, D. (2025). Towards Geographies of Silence: Unspoken Boundaries. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Advance online publication. [DOI]
García Alonso, M., & Sampaio, D. (2025). Agency as Capabilities: Ambivalent Processes of (Dis)Empowerment Among Latin American Female Domestic Workers in Andalusia, Spain. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Ariyanti, O., Sampaio, D., & Bailey, A. (2025). Older adults' experiences with app-based ride-hailing in Indonesia: At the intersection of health, gender, digital literacy, and affordability. Journal of Transport and Health, 44, Article 102134. [DOI] [Portal]
Ariyanti, O., Sampaio, D., & Bailey, A. (2025). Barriers and facilitators to urban mobility for older adults in LMICs: A scoping review. Journal of Transport Geography, 127, Article 104289. [DOI] [Portal]
Sampaio, D. (2025). The emotional politics of return migration: Negotiating im/mobilities across borders and generations. International Migration, 63(2), Article e13342. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

Zill, M., Varró, K., Fiore, E., Huizinga, R., & Sampaio, D. (2024). Teaching gender under the rise of postfeminism: Re-integrating feminist perspectives into the Dutch undergraduate geography curriculum. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 27(2/3), 218-236. [DOI] [Portal]
Sampaio, D. (2024). Ageing, agency and work: Brazilian older adults building spaces of opportunity in the United States. Social and Cultural Geography, 25(1), 87-103. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D., & Walsh, K. (2023). Ageing in place. In S. Torres, & A. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook on Migration and Ageing (pp. 98-106). (Elgar Handbooks in Migration). Edward Elgar Publishing. [DOI] [Repository]
Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (Eds.) (2023). Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time, Space, and Generations. Rutgers University Press.
Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (2023). Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4), 927-944. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D. (2022). Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad. Global Networks, 23(1), 249-261. [DOI] [Repository]
Sampaio, D. (2022). Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads . (1 ed.) (Global Diversities). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
Sampaio, D., & Carvalho, R. F. (2022). Transnational families, care and wellbeing: The role of legal status and sibling relationships across borders. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3, 1-7. Article 100097. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D. (2021). The Sea as a Lifestyle: (Im)mobilities, liminality and life course transitions: the case of permanently settled sailors in the Azores. In J. Domínguez-Mujica, J. McGarrigle, & J. Parreño-Castellano (Eds.), International Residential Mobilities: From lifestyle migrations to tourism gentrification (pp. 33-50). Springer. [DOI]
Sampaio, D. (2021). Languages of othering and cultural hybridity. Transnational cultures of ageing in the context of return to the Azores. Ageing & Society, 41(6), 1289–1307. [DOI]

2020

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D. (2020). Ageing strategically: On migration, care, and diversity in later life. Population, Space and Place, 26(4), e2317.
Sampaio, D. (2020). Caring by silence: How (un)documented Brazilian migrants enact silence as a care practice for aging parents. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 18(3), 281-300.

2019

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D., & King, R. (2019). ‘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. Journal of Rural Studies, 72, 186-195.

2018

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D., King, R., & Walsh, K. (2018). Geographies of the ageing-migration nexus: An introduction. Area, 50(4), 440-443.
Sampaio, D. (2018). A place to grow older … alone? Living and ageing as a single older lifestyle migrant in the Azores. Area, 50(4), 459-466.

2017

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D., & Carvalho, R. F. (2017). From the Al-Maghrib to the Al-Gharb: An anatomy of the recruitment and labour incorporation of Moroccan agricultural workers in the Algarve, Southern Portugal. In A. Corrado, C. D. Castro, & D. Perrotta (Eds.), Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and change in the Mediterranean area (pp. 231-246). Routledge.
Sampaio, D. (2017). 'Is this really where home is?’ Experiences of home in a revisited homeland among ageing Azorean returnees. In Z. Vathi, & R. King (Eds.), Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families (pp. 240-256). Routledge.
King, R., Lulle, A., Sampaio, D., & Vullnetari, J. (2017). Unpacking the ageing–migration nexus and challenging the vulnerability trope. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(2), 182-198.
Sampaio, D. (2017). Ageing ‘here’ or ‘there’? Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants’ return aspirations from the Azores. Finisterra, 52(106), 49-64.

2013

Scholarly publications

Esteves, A., & Sampaio, D. (2013). Language proficiency among immigrants and the establishment of interethnic relations: a comparative analysis of Bilbao, Lisbon and Rotterdam. Finisterra, XLVIII(96), 65-88.

2012

Scholarly publications

Fonseca, M. L., McGarrigle, J., Esteves, A., Sampaio, D., Carvalho, R., Moreno, L., & Malheiros, J. (2012). Modes of inter-ethnic coexistence in three neighbourhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: a comparative perspective. Edicoes Colibri.

2009

Scholarly publications

Sampaio, D. (2009). Residência Secundária em áreas de baixa densidade do Algarve: entre os velhos paradigmas residenciais e os novos fluxos de mudança. In Cultura, Inovação e Território. O Agroalimentar e o Rural SPER Publications.