Membership Contests: Encountering Immigrant Youth in Finland

Harinen, Päivi; Suurpää, Leena; Hoikkala, Tommi; Hautaniemi, Petri; Perho, Sini; Keskisalo, Anne-Mari; Kuure, Tapio; Künnapuu, Krista

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“…This literature foregrounds the fluid and dynamic nature of their processes of identity formation (e.g. Bushin et al, 2007;Christopoulou and de Leeuw, 2005;Easthope, 2009;Harinen et al, 2005;Mannitz, 2005;Olwig, 2003;Sirriyeh, 2008;Sporton et al, 2006;Valentine et al, 2009). We argue that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives.…”

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Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

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This article introduces a special issue on childhood and migration. It argues that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives. The articles in this collection highlight the mobile and translocal nature of children’s lives, from different perspectives and in different global and migration contexts. Taken together, they make a number of key contributions to an emerging literature on the lives of migrant, mobile and diasporic children and young people. They emphasize the situated and contextualized nature of migrant children’s negotiations of home and belonging. In particular, the collection explores children’s and young people’s constructions of home and belonging, often negotiated in contradictory or challenging circumstances and frequently destabilizing powerful assumptions about the nature of migration, mobility and childhood, such as ideals of childhood based on notions of residential fixity.

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Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

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“…Ethnographies in England (Back, 1996), the Netherlands (den Uyl and Brouwer, 2009) and Scandinavia (Fangen, 2010) depict multi-ethnic peer groups in urban milieus-'communities of difference' (Vestel, 2004) which include only a scant number of majority members. This seems to be the case in Finland as well: everyday demarcations between ethnic minority and majority youth are common (Harinen et al, 2005).…”

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“…In spite of these variations, many of these youth are at risk of suffering from exclusions. Thus, the one thing that ethnic minority youth have in common is that their individuality and their full membership of Finnish society, can be contested at any moment (Harinen et al, 2005). However, adequate social, cultural and economic resources may equip some ethnic minority youth with the ability to detach themselves from the national(istic) categories.…”

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Interethnic Affiliations and Everyday Demarcations of Youth in Finland

Kivijärvi

2014

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In this article, affiliations between ethnic majority and minority youth in leisure surroundings around Finland are scrutinised. It is asked how these affiliations are formulated: To what extent they are based on individual choices and factors such as ethnicity, class and locality? The twofold data of the study consists of (1) interviews of ethnic minority youth (n = 38) and (2) observations and interviews of ethnic majority and minority youth (n = 13) conducted in the fields of youth work. The results of the study indicate that peer affiliations among ethnic minority youth are determined through complex positionalities. Even though in the interview data most youth present themselves as individuals not constrained by structural factors, in the observation data affiliations are generally formulated through processes in which ethnicity, class and locality are intertwined. In contrast to ‘common knowledge’, deprived urban localities and rural areas offer fruitful spaces for interethnic affiliations.

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Is Education Still Enough? Skilled Sub-Saharan Africans Face the Nordic Labour Market

Ebot

2016

Dislocations of Civic Cultural Borderlines

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Membership Contests: Encountering Immigrant Youth in Finland

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

Interethnic Affiliations and Everyday Demarcations of Youth in Finland

Is Education Still Enough? Skilled Sub-Saharan Africans Face the Nordic Labour Market

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