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Sirpa Korhonen

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Social Inclusion and Exclusion in the Life Stories of Deported Asylum Seekers from Finland to Iraqi Kurdistan

2018

This study explores how social inclusion and exclusion manifest as a dynamic continuum in the everyday lived realities of irregular migrants. Based on narratives of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, who were eventually deported from Finland, the analysis depicts the ways in which societal structures, personal negotiations as well as relationships and social networks interplay in lives characterized by multiple locations, transitions and positions. Establishing and maintaining social contacts, belonging to various networks and being able to decide and act are primary factors that help us understand how the narrators relate to the continuum. The participants construct narratives illustrating seve…

elämäntarinatSociology and Political SciencekurditRefugeeGeography Planning and Developmentlcsh:Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration0507 social and economic geographyCriminologylife storiesinclusion/exclusiondeportationlcsh:HT51-1595Political science050602 political science & public administrationexclusionDemography05 social scienceskurdsmaastakarkotus0506 political scienceAnthropologylcsh:JV1-9480lcsh:Communities. Classes. RacesIraqi kurdistanasylum seeking050703 geographyLawturvapaikanhakijatinkluusioNordic Journal of Migration Research
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Explaining the Difference between Policy-Based Evidence and Evidence-Based Policy: A Nexus Analysis Approach to Mobilities and Migration

2019

Abstract In this policy analysis, we explain the difference between policy-based evidence (PBE) and evidence-based policy (EBP). We argue that better, evidence-based understanding, explanations, and questions can be sought by problematizing the challenging forms of twenty-first century migration and mobilities. We emphasize that this can be done by not confusing PBE with EBP, especially when each is needed as a basis for specific types of action. By focusing on topics often viewed as “unrelated” or confused with one another, we underline the social dynamics that are unfamiliar to many policy actors, professionals, and stakeholders, who rely on scholars for actionable analyses. Our mode of i…

Europeliikkuvuuspolicy analysishigher educationmobilitiesmaahanmuuttokorkea-asteen koulutusnäyttöön perustuvat käytännötmigrationmuuttoliikeneksusanalyysiJournal of Finnish Studies
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