Current research interests

Histórias de vida de migrantes e processos emancipatórios

Métodologias qualitativas

As dimesões políticas e cívicas da pesquisa biográfica no estudo das migrações

Silencios e sombras nos diálogos interculturais entre migrantes e sociedades de acolhimento

Research Projects

2017-09-01 - 2020-08-31 - "Communication, Cultural Diversity, and Solidarity", coordinated by Universidade de Lyon, sponsored by Erasmus+.
    Project Partnership:
              - La Sapienza, Roma
              - Universidade de Salamanca
              - Universidade de Bucareste
              - Universidade Europeia Flensburg
              - Turku University
              - Panteion University, Athens

2017-09-01 - 2018-08-31 - "Na Ponta da Língua: memórias, histórias e inovação na emigração", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
    Project Partnership:
              - Graça dos Santos, Universidade de Paris X
              - Deolinda Adão, Universidade de Berkeley, California
              - Kimberly da Costa Holton, Rutgers University, Newark
              - Karen Worcman, Museu da Pessoa, São Paulo

2014-03-01 - 2019-02-28 - "Portuguese Emigration in the Digital Era", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT-Concurso Investigador 2013.

2014 - 2014 - "Participatory media research among Portuguese immigrants in Newark: an exploratory project", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fulbright/Instituto Camões.

2013-10-01 - 2015-10-01 - "Educação na contemporaneidade: pesquisa e cooperação", coordinated by Eduardo Fernandes Nunes, sponsored by FAPESB/CAPES.

2013 - 2014 - "Migrations précaires: Transitions, temporalités formatives et pouvoir d'agir", coordinated by Christine Delory-Momberger, sponsored by MSH.
    Project Partnership:
              - Université Ouverte Le Sujet dans la Cité

2013 - 2014 - "Rethinking integration in Europe (portuguese team)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Migration Foundation.
    Project Partnership:
              - Institute for Public Policy Research

2011-03-01 - 2014-02-28 - "Migration studies and the biographical approach: building a collaborative framework in the Portuguese contexts", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.
    Project Partnership:
              - Le Sujet dans la Cité e Instituto da África Ocidental

2010 - 2011 - ""International Observatory for Local Policies of Social Inclusion", ", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by Comisión de Inclusión Social y Democracia Participativa CGLU Ajuntament de Barcelona.

2007 - 2010 - "Comment apprendre la citoyennetée européenne dans la pluralité des langues et des cultures", coordinated by Ofaj, sponsored by Ofaj.

2007 - 2010 - "Public health policies and therapeutic practices: suffering and treatment strategies of migrants in the Greater Lisbon area", coordinated by Chiara Pussetti, sponsored by FCT.

2007 - 2008 - "Formative dialogue research on the 'Critical urban ares' programme in Portugal", coordinated by Einar Braathen, sponsored by Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.

Networks

Artsinformedresearch

ASIHVIF

Association Internationale pour la Recherche Biographique

Grafho

Imagens da cultura, cultura das imagens
    Net Partnership:
              - Usp, universidade Aberta do Porto.

IMISCOE

Reseaux Térra