Book review of Markkanen, Airi and Åberg, Kai (eds.) 2024. The Culture of the Finnish Roma. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 137 pp.
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Book review of Winters, Nanneke, Drotbohm, Heike, and Guevara González, Yaatsil (eds.) 2024. (Un)Settling Place: Diverse and Divergent Place‑Making of People on the Move. Berghahn Books, 241 pp.
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Book review of Huttunen, Laura and Perl, Gerhild (eds.) 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 298 pp.
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Book review of Heusala, Anna‑Liisa, Aitamurto, Kaarina, and Eraliev, Sherzod (eds.) 2024. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 341 pp.
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Book review of Dickinson, Eliot 2023. Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 256 pp.
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Book review of Bönisch‑Brednich, Brigitte, Christou, Anastasia, Meyer, Silke, Karner, Marie, and Escher, Anton Jakob (eds.) 2024. Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. London: Routledge, 226 pp.
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Swedish Lifestyle Migrants in Portugal: A Quantitative Gender Analysis of Quality‑of‑Life Aspects
This study discusses gendered patterns in quality‑of‑life pursuit amongst Swedish lifestyle migrants in Portugal through quantitative analysis of 543 survey respondents in a convenience sample. Using binary probit regression models, we inves…
Beyond Colour‑Blindness: Anti‑Racist Practices in Two Segregated Swedish Schools
This article examines anti‑racist efforts in two schools located in structurally disadvantaged suburbs of Swedish cities. Most pupils in these segregated schools come from low‑income, migrant‑background families. Data were collected using et…
Religion, Solidarity, and Prejudice: Interreligious Attitudes Among Adolescents in Norway
Religion has emerged as a potential barrier to integration in increasingly diverse European societies. While existing research on intergroup relations mostly focuses on majority members’ attitudes toward religious or ethnic minority groups, …
Framing the Professional Conduct of Swedish Transport Leaders in Policy Documents: A Critical Intercultural Examination of ‘Reconciling the Irreconcilable’
Recent shifts in return policy have altered the legal reception and treatment of migrants worldwide. This article examines how policy documents from forced return operations construct human rights, authority and interculturality. Using criti…
‘This is not Migration Policy, this is Security, Security, and Security’: The Securitization of Migrants in Finnish Parliamentary Discourse on Instrumentalized Migration
This article examines Finnish political discourse on recent migration events on the eastern border of the European Union and explores its broader societal impacts. Using discourse analysis and a theoretical framework of securitization and ‘o…
External Voting in Times of Diplomatic Tensions: The Turkish Diaspora in Sweden, NATO, and the 2023 Presidential Elections
How do foreign policy disputes between host and home states affect external voting? Since the early 2000s, Turkey has adopted a proactive diaspora engagement policy to not only enfranchise nonresident citizens more effectively but also mobil…
Compassion as a Social Emotion in Ethnographic Research with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
In this article, I explore compassion both as a social emotion and as a practice of encounter in ethnographic research. I argue that compassion is not a plain emotion but instead a socially relational one that prompts cognitive processes, le…
Party Membership among Foreign-Born Residents: Insights from Chilean Administrative Census Data (2017–2020)
Chile is one of the democracies that has significantly expanded citizenship rights. Foreign-born residents over the age of 18 years who have lived in the country for at least five years are automatically registered on the electoral rolls, ar…
Home–School Cooperation in Children’s Education: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Parents in Finland
While extensive research on home–school cooperation has been conducted both in Nordic countries and beyond, the perspectives of immigrant parents have received little attention. To bridge the gap, this qualitative study examines the narrativ…
Interpersonal Austerity as a Barrier to the Social Integration of Highly Skilled Immigrants in Norway
In this article, we examine barriers to the social integration of highly skilled immigrants in Norway, drawing on qualitative interviews. Many participants described significant challenges in forming friendships with Norwegians. Responding t…
Book review of Bijak, Jakub (ed.) 2024. From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 166 pp.
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Between Benefit and Risk: Constructions of Skill and Competency of Internationally Educated Nurses in Sweden
Highly skilled migrants in Sweden are at risk of exclusion from professions commensurate with their qualifications, particularly in regulated fields like nursing. In response, national policies and programmes have been introduced to facilita…
Ukrainian Refugees’ Stances Towards Russian-Language Interpretation Services in Finland: Language, Identity and Emotion in Exile
This article investigates how Ukrainian migrants and war-displaced persons in Finland experience and evaluate interpreter-mediated encounters in public service settings following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on 57…
Book review of Mogstad, Heidi 2023. Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece. New York: Berghahn Books, 278 pp.
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Book review of Eichler, Jessika and Topidi, Kyriaki (eds.) 2022. Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 256 pp.
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Working-Class Migrants: Are they Motivated by Higher Social Wages and/or a Better Lifestyle?
The article uses the concepts of social wage and lifestyle migration to discuss the motivators of working-class migrants from Estonia to Nordic countries (Finland and Sweden). The present research challenges the long-standing tradition of de…
Between Proximity and Distance: Adult Migrants’ Belonging in Racialised Social Networks
This article examines how adult migrants in Finland experience belonging through the social networks they form within and beyond institutional contexts. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with 29 adult migrant students an…
Book review of Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin. 2023. Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders. Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines. New York: Berghahn. 276 pp.
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