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I am a human geographer with a wide range of interests across social, cultural and development geographies. My research and teaching focus on transnational mobilities, ageing, transnational families, gender, inequalities, care and the life course. In my work, I examine the complex and uneven dynamics between two defining trends of our time: mobility and ageing, through ethnographic, multi-method and creative qualitative approaches. I have conducted research in Brazil, Portugal, the UK and the United States.
I currently lead a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) funded project, RETIREWEL, which looks at retirement across countries through a tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry.
My first book, Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads. Published in 2022 with Palgrave Macmillan is an ethnography of migrants ageing in the Portuguese islands of the Azores. It offers a fine-grained examination of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective.
I studied geography at the University of Lisbon and Sussex University. I previously held positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany; University of Sussex, UK; and the Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal. I spent research periods at Universidade Vale do Rio Doce (Univale), Brazil, and Brandeis University, United States, in 2019 and Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, in 2024.
I am a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journals Global Networks and Journal of Global Ageing.