Johanna LeinonenUniversity of Oulu · Department of History
Johanna Leinonen
Doctor of Philosophy, Title of Docent
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Introduction
Johanna Leinonen (PhD, University of Minnesota, 2011) is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Oulu in the project Refugee Journeys: Narratives of Forced Mobilities (Academy of Finland, 2018 ̶ 2023). She also leads the Academy of Finland funded project Postmemory of Family SepaSeparation: An Intergenerational Perspective (2019 ̶ 2023) and the Nordic collaborative project Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries (NOS-HS).
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Publications (22)
The editorial presents the fifteenth ETMU Conference, held at Åbo Akademi University in Turku on 15–16 November 2018, dedicated to the theme "Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance in Diverse Societies’. The first two articles of the current issue are based on papers presented at the conference.
Highly skilled migrants and expatriates are the subject of the global competition for talent. Their human capital is considered as positive, and it is expected to be wanted and not brain-wasted. Economic benefits and career building represent acknowledged reasons for migration of this “elite”. Their decision-making on migration is a complicated and...
These conference proceedings gather expert articles about different ways of understanding immigrant incorporation, both historically and in contemporary society. It is important to examine critically what is meant by the term “integration”. Who are targeted with integration policies and who are left out? In which domains of society (e.g. education,...
In the early twentieth-century United States, circa 90 percent of Finnish immigrants married inside their ethnic community, due to factors such as their cultural preferences, experiences of marginalization, lack of language skills, and the tightness of Finnish communities. In contrast, since 1960 more than half of Finnish-born men and women in the...
This chapter focuses on the processes of defining and redefining Finnish identity and traditions that are taking place among recent immigrants from Finland and American-born descendants of earlier Finnish immigrants in the present-day United States, utilizing oral history interviews that I conducted with thirty-five Finnish-born women living in Min...
Within the growing amount of scholarship on transnational families and family reunification policies in Europe, studies that consider both transnational family constellations and the regulation of marriage and family migration rarely intersect. This article considers both migrants' transnational family ties and nation-states' efforts to restrict bo...
This article examines contemporary immigration discourses in Finland using experiences of immigrants originating from the United States as a case study. This research shows that the notion of an “immigrant” (maahanmuuttaja) is a highly racialized and class-based category in Finland. The difficulties of finding work that fits Americans’ educational...
This article highlights and fills gaps in research on migrant elites, traditionally defined as highly educated or professional migrants. The research on elite migrants has often suffered from methodological individualism: elite migrants are depicted as male professionals who shuttle from one work assignment or country to another, unrestricted by fa...
This paper estimates and interprets empirical shifts in the gender composition of immigrants to add to scholarship about the gendering of international migrations over time. We map shifts in gender ratios using micro-level data that permit us to create age-standardized estimates among adult foreign born stock living in the United States since 1850...
The present study examines the interplay of integration and transnationalism in international marriages of white, professional women migrants, using marriages between Finns and Americans in the U.S. as a case study. The study argues that a woman's simultaneous engagement in her country of origin and in the country in which she currently lives highl...
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The aim of the study is to find out to what extent memories of family separation and forced displacement have been transmitted across generations, what becomes hidden over time, and how family separation influences quality of family relationships, psychological wellbeing, and ethnic identity of the 2nd and 3rd generation. More about the project: https://postmemories.com/
The research project "Family Separation, Migration Status and Everyday Security" is funded by the Academy of Finland and led by Docent Marja Tiilikainen. The project examines the impact of tightened asylum and family reunification policies on the experiences and organization of everyday security among vulnerable migrants and their transnational families.
My sub-project "Families Apart: Navigating Everyday Life in the Context of Family Separation" examines how the tightened Finnish family reunification policy influences the family life of those who acquired residency in Finland as refugees or through the asylum process. I investigate the strategies that migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia employ when attempting to bring family members to Finland. My research will reveal how migrants cope with family separation when living apart for a prolonged period. How does family separation influence migrants’, including minors’, sense of everyday security? In addition, I examine the networks and meaningful relationships that migrants develop in Finland in the absence of their family members. Thus, I analyze the intersection of migration control, time, and conceptions regarding family.
