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‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland
2021
This article analyses the role of affect and emotions in Finland’s first large-scale anti-deportation protest, the 2017 Right to Live protest in Helsinki. Despite deportation protests having recently gained scholarly attention, their emotional dimensions have not been sufficiently studied, especially as concerns the emotions of protestors with vulnerable legal status. This article is based on in-depth interviews with key activists in the anti-deportation protest network in Finland, including asylum seekers, refugees and Finnish citizens. The article argues that in order for the protest of asylum seekers facing the threat of deportation to become public and visible, it was important that cit…
The Dynamics of Expellee Integration in Post-1945 Europe
2020
Small agency and precarious residency in Afghan refugee families
2020
This chapter examines agency and ways of enduring suffering in Afghan families in a small Finnish town. Three stories, where the mothers and children have lived in Finland for some years already, but the fathers have arrived during the 2015 large-scale migration, are presented and analysed. Ethnographic methods are used in enquiring how family members endure suffering when they are faced with the threat of deportation of a family member. Our results show that fathers’ precarious residency has an impact on family members’ agency. First, the informants were enduring alone, and thus the social element, being able to share one’s struggles of enduring, was missing. Second, it was not only one ty…
The Slow Violence of Deportability
2020
In 2015, Finland, like other European countries, received an unprecedented number of asylum seekers. Later, in the aftermath of what we prefer to call the ‘refugee reception crisis’, the deportation of those who had received negative asylum decisions began. The Finnish Immigration Service significantly tightened its policies after 2015. Increasingly strict asylum criteria have resulted in deportations at a level never seen before. Furthermore, protests against deportations have increased and become publicly salient. In this chapter we theorize deportation as a form of slow violence that hurts not only its main target but also people nearby. While a forced removal can be seen as a single, po…
Karkotukset ja hidas väkivalta
2021
Karkotuksiin liittyvä ”hidas väkivalta” on ennen muuta pelkoa ja epävarmuutta tulevaisuudesta, ja se uuvuttaa ja näännyttää kohteensa vähitellen. Hidas väkivalta ravistelee myös karkotuksen tai karkotusuhan kohteena olevien ihmisten lähipiiriä. nonPeerReviewed
Suomesta poistetut : näkökulmia karkotuksiin ja käännytyksiin
2022
Ulkomaalaisen maastapoistamista - käännytystä ja karkotusta - koskevaa keskustelua hallitsevat viranomaisten näkökulmat ja käsitteet. Miltä lait ja hallinnolliset prosessit näyttävät ulkomaalaisen näkökulmasta? ”Suomesta poistetut” avaa lakien ja hallinnollisten prosessien historiaa, toimeenpanoa, niistä käytyjä kamppailuja ja niiden kohteena olevien ihmisten kokemuksia. Kirja haastaa vallalla olevaa kapeakatseista julkista keskustelua, jossa karkotukset typistetään historiattomaksi ja vain tiettyjä ihmisryhmiä koskevaksi ilmiöksi. Tosiasiassa karkotukset koskettavat laajasti koko yhteiskuntaa. Teoksessa kritisoidaan karkotusten ja käännytysten yksioikoista normalisointia. Usein byrokraatt…
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…