Iscte Euro-Asian Studies Group
Publications
Beck, Fanni & Gaspar, Sofia (2024), In pursuit of a ‘good enough life’: Chinese ‘educational exiles’ in Lisbon and Budapest, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50 (16), 4070-4088. (First published online 15/08/2023)
Beck, Fanni, Nyíri, Pál & Gaspar, Sofia (2024). Childhood, Migration, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Middle-Class East Asia, Global Networks, 24: e12511.
Borges, D. & Costa, C. M. (2025). Malaysian Chinese and their influence on China-Malaysia relations: A contemporary perspective. Frontiers in Political Science. 7
Cojocaru, Olga & Gaspar, Sofia (2026), "Geoarbitrage at the meso level: How intermediaries shape Chinese migration to Portugal", International Migration, 64:e70143.
Cojocaru, Olga, Gaspar, Sofia & Wang, Xuheng (2025), ““Just look at those shabby trains in Lisbon”: post-arrival disappointment amongst Chinese migrants in Portugal”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(15), 3772-3788
Costa, C. M. & Pestana, O. (2020). From Lisbon to Macau: The conquest of the air as seen by the Portuguese press in a comparative approach. Portuguese Journal of Social Science. 19 (1), 83-96
Costa, C. M. & Yichao, L. (2022). International and Domestic Discourses of China’s Special Economic Zones: An Instrument for New Projects. In Figueiredo, P.G., Leandro, F.J., Li, Y. (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Special Economic Zones as Regional Development Enablers. (pp. 39-57).: IGI Global.
Costa, C. M. & Yichao, L. (2023). China and European Union Countries: Do Chinese partnerships boost cooperation results?. Janus.net. 14 (1), 10-43
Costa, C. M. (2020). A Chinese mission for Macau: to build bridges between China and the Portuguese Speaking Countries. In Gaspar, Sofia, Rodrigues, Irene (Ed.), The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories. (pp. 109-124): Brill
Costa, C. M. (2020). China after the pandemics: How to survive international scepticism and domestic distrust?. In Gian Luca Gardini (Ed.), The world before and after Covid-19: Intellectual reflections on politics, diplomacy and international relations. (pp. 84-87). Stockholm: European Institute of International Studies Press.
Costa, C. M. (2020). The Imaginary of China: Sameness and otherness from the perspective of Macau. In Chih-yu Shih, Prapin Manomaivibool Mariko Tanigaki, Swaran Singh (Ed.), Colonial legacies and contemporary studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning binaries, strategizing self. (pp. 257-283).: World Scientific.
Costa, C. M. (2020). The words of the Belt & Road Initiative: a Chinese discourse for the world?. In Leandro, Francisco B. S. José, Duarte, Paulo Afonso B. (Ed.), The Belt and Road Initiative: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model. (pp. 23-44).: Palgrave Macmillan.
Costa, C. M. (2021). The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Future: India and Pakistan as new members. In Jesús R. Argumosa Pila, Alejandro Gerofalli Acosta, Mario Torres Jarrín (Ed.), The Future of the Asia-Pacific in the New World Order. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades.
Costa, C. M. (2023). The Globalizing Discourse of the Belt and Road Initiative. In Duarte, P.A.B., Leandro, F.J.B.S., Galán, E.M (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics. (pp. 55-66). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Duggan, N., Haastrup, T., Hogan, J. J., Mah, L., & Bernardo, L. (2025). African agency in geopolitical times: playing with EU and Chinese ontological security. Third World Quarterly, 1–22.
França, Thais, Gaspar, Sofia and Mathias, Diego (2024), “It’s not good, but it could be worse”: Racial microaggressions towards Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 18 (1), 9-22.
Gaspar, S., Carvalho, H. & Seabra, T. (2021) “Academic performance of Chinese students in Portugal” in Sofia Gaspar and Irene Rodrigues (eds.), The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories, Asian Studies, Chinese Overseas Series, Amsterdam, BRILL Editorial, Volume 19, 39-53. ISBN: 978-90-04-47298-3.
Gaspar, Sofia & Ampudia de Haro, Fernando (2020), Buying Citizenship? Chinese Golden Visa Migrants in Portugal, International Migration, 58(3), 58-72 (First published online 08/07/2019)
Gaspar, Sofia & Mathias, Diego (2023), Transnational mobility of Chinese students among Portuguese-speaking countries: the role of a non-hegemonic language, Journal of Chinese Overseas, 19, 248-268.
Gaspar, Sofia and Rodrigues, Irene (Eds.) (2021), The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories, Asian Studies, Chinese Overseas Series, Amsterdam, BRILL Editorial, Vol. 19. ISBN: 978-90-04-47298-3.
Gaspar, Sofia, Cojocaru, Olga & Carone, Renata, (2025),“(Im)mobility aspirations and imagined pathways of young migrant descendants in Portugal”, In Josip Obradović & Sampson Lee Blair (eds.), Immigration and Families: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration, Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Emerald Publishing, Chapter 4, vol. 32, 91-111.
Leandro, F., Yichao, L. & Costa, C. M. (2025). Forty Years of China-Angola Relations: Rethinking the Strategic Partnership. In The Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations.
Ma, S., Silva, Maria. Gabriela., Trigo, Virginia., & Callan, V. J. (2020). The Influence of Emotional Labor and Emotional Intelligence on Job Performance: Does Ownership Type Matter? A Comparison of Public and Private Organizations in China. International Journal of Public Administration, 43(9), 745-756.
Ma, S., Xuehu Xu, Virgínia Trigo & Nelson J. C. Ramalho. (2021). Managing Doctor-Patient Relationships and Turnover Intention in Chinese Hospitals with Commitment HRM: The Moderating Role of Pragmatism, International Journal of Public Administration, 44:2, 167-176,
Ma, S., Zeng, W., Borges, A., Xu, Y., & Zhang, J. (2022). Emotional well-being in COVID-19 mass quarantine: the role of personal response and life activity: a 14-day diary study in China. Psychology & health, 37(10), 1200-1222.
Mah, L. (2019). Beyond aid: how trade interests trumps EU-ASEAN development cooperation´. In Corrêa, R., Albergaria, F. and Barros-Platiau, A. (eds.) Relações Internacionais da União Europeia: Agendas e Parcerias (Curitiba: Juruá Editora)
Peng, K., Leandro, F. J. & Costa, C. M. (2025). A semiotic decoding of political discourse between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. Janus.net. 16 (1), 297-323
Rodrigues, Irene and Gaspar, Sofia (2021), “The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories: An Introduction” in Sofia Gaspar and Irene Rodrigues (eds.), The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories, Asian Studies, Chinese Overseas Series, Amsterdam, BRILL Editorial, volume 19, 1-20. ISBN: 978-90-04-47298-3.
Santos, T. B. dos. & Costa, C. M. (2026). The geopolitical significance of the CPEC in strengthening the BRI toward the west. Frontiers in Political Science. 7
Tavares, A., Gasparyan, A., Costa, C. M., Palmeira, J., Duarte, P. A. B. & Medeiros, S. E. (2024). Sino-Brazilian cooperation in analysis: Bilateralism, multilateralism and minilateralism. Janus.net. 15 (2), 38-59
Tseng, Yu-chin, & Gaspar, Sofia (2024), The rise and the fall of golden visa: The case of Chinese investors in Greece and Portugal, in Mette Thuno and Simeng Wang (Eds), Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe, Brill Editorial, Chapter 5, 157-186.
Um, Khatharya and Gaspar, Sofia (eds.) (2015), Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge and Belonging, Sussex Academic Press, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84519-665-3.
Yao, S., Ma, S., Shi, L., Wu, F., & Reis, E. (2025). Balancing stakeholder interests: A Balanced Scorecard perspective on performance appraisal implementation in China's public hospitals. International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 40(5):1122–1139.
Zhang, Y., Sun, X., Wang, D., Hua, Y., Wang, G., & Ramalho, N. (2025). Exploring pediatricians' off-label prescribing behavior in China: A theory of planned behavior-based study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 47(6), 2072–2082.