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I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Mobile Futures project in the Faculty of Education and Psychology in the University of Oulu. In this project I look at trust and two-way integration in everyday encounters and am interested in concepts such as love, decoloniality, justice and materiality. My doctoral thesis focused on exploring practices creating barriers to social justice in the lives of children and youth who once were seeking for asylum in Finland without their primary caregivers.
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In this article, we discuss what we have learned about love and how it is perceived in academia. We wish to celebrate some of the complex global histories and contemporary practices of love as a political concept. While the concept of care is much more common than love in Eurocentric research that attends to issues of social justice, we suggest tha...
This coda begins with a commentary on the ethical and philosophical dynamics that inspired this special issue, emerging from two conversations around the ridiculousness of navigating ethics approval processes that are detached from the research itself. In what follows, rather than rehearsing the arguments from the special issue, the contributors re...
This article discusses how needs for loving relationships are met for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. The data was collected through a focused ethnography with 13 unaccompanied children. The findings show that institutional protocols and practices fail to consider the need for love of these children, hindering their possibilities...
This integrative literature review studies well‐being of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children through the three modes of recognition—love, rights and solidarity—as conceptualized by Axel Honneth. The analysis shows that the children's basic needs, such as safety, shelter and nutrition, are mostly recognized; however, the systems responsible for th...
