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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Markkanen, Airi and Åberg, Kai (eds.) 2024. The Culture of the Finnish Roma. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 137 pp.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Heusala, Anna‑Liisa, Aitamurto, Kaarina, and Eraliev, Sherzod (eds.) 2024. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 341 pp.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Winters, Nanneke, Drotbohm, Heike, and Guevara González, Yaatsil (eds.) 2024. (Un)Settling Place: Diverse and Divergent Place‑Making of People on the Move. Berghahn Books, 241 pp.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Bönisch‑Brednich, Brigitte, Christou, Anastasia, Meyer, Silke, Karner, Marie, and Escher, Anton Jakob (eds.) 2024. Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. London: Routledge, 226 pp.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Huttunen, Laura and Perl, Gerhild (eds.) 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 298 pp.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Dickinson, Eliot 2023. Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 256 pp.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beyond Colour‑Blindness: Anti‑Racist Practices in Two Segregated Swedish Schools]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article examines anti‑racist efforts in two schools located in structurally disadvantaged suburbs of Swedish cities. Most pupils in these segregated schools come from low‑income, migrant‑background families. Data were collected using ethnographic methods. The schools form part of a group that previously recorded low academic achievement but has shown improved student performance, largely due to bottom‑up initiatives developed by educators in collaboration with pupils’ families and civil‑society organisations. The study is grounded in a Critical Educational Studies (CES) perspective and draws on Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of liberation as its theoretical framework. The results, consistent with earlier research, show that effective anti‑racist practices include incorporating pupils’ lived experiences into pedagogy, supporting students who have experienced racism and collaborating with families and civil society organisations. The study also identifies challenges, including internalised racism, the reproduction of racial hierarchies between differently racialised groups and external political pressures. The findings demonstrate that, despite the dominance of colour‑blind approaches in Swedish education, educators can create ‘spaces of possible action’ within existing school structures. By moving beyond colour‑blindness, they promote students’ critical awareness, agency and capacity to respond to racism.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish Lifestyle Migrants in Portugal: A Quantitative Gender Analysis of Quality‑of‑Life Aspects]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This study discusses gendered patterns in quality‑of‑life pursuit amongst Swedish lifestyle migrants in Portugal through quantitative analysis of 543 survey respondents in a convenience sample. Using binary probit regression models, we investigate whether quality‑of‑life dimensions (economic security, cultural integration, social connections and subjective well‑being) are evaluated and pursued differently by gender. With one exception, the findings support conventional assumptions: contrary to expectations, the studied women prioritise economic security through tax benefits more strongly than men. The studied women demonstrate greater investment in social quality of life through cultural integration and language learning. Long‑term residency intentions reveal gendered anchoring mechanisms: the studied men’s commitment relates to material security (property ownership, pension status), whilst the studied women’s connects to eudaimonic considerations (life stage, self‑realisation). This explorative pilot study contributes through its quantitative approach and mapping of gender differences across multiple quality‑of‑life domains in privileged migration.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Framing the Professional Conduct of Swedish Transport Leaders in Policy Documents: A Critical Intercultural Examination of ‘Reconciling the Irreconcilable’]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Recent shifts in return policy have altered the legal reception and treatment of migrants worldwide. This article examines how policy documents from forced return operations construct human rights, authority and interculturality. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate how language legitimises institutional power in documents from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SPPS) and the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). The analysis reveals that SPPS frames returnees as ‘clients’ within a rehabilitative model, whereas Frontex employs a legalistic, enforcement‑driven discourse. Although claiming to support human rights, these texts often reproduce power structures and a weak form of interculturality (understood as the situated, power‑sensitive negotiation of difference and similarity). Interculturality matters because these policies script cross‑border encounters by categorising actors and setting rules, thereby shaping whose voice is heard. This discussion is timely given policy shifts in Sweden and the EU that increasingly seem to prioritise security over humanitarian concerns.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[External Voting in Times of Diplomatic Tensions: The Turkish Diaspora in Sweden, NATO, and the 2023 Presidential Elections]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How do foreign policy disputes between host and home states affect external voting? Since the early 2000s, Turkey has adopted a proactive diaspora engagement policy to not only enfranchise nonresident citizens more effectively but also mobilize its diaspora during election campaigns. Scholarship has highlighted how such external campaigns may cause friction between home and host states, as this engagement potentially transgresses the boundaries between domestic and foreign politics and challenges concepts of community and sovereignty. Contributing to debates on state–diaspora relations and external voting, this article examines if and how the crisis in Turkish–Swedish bilateral relations following Sweden’s bid for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may have factored into diaspora voting during the 2023 Turkish presidential elections. The article develops a framework for understanding how foreign policy becomes electorally salient in external voting contexts, arguing that such salience operates less as a direct determinant of vote choice but as a mechanism of political affirmation, boundary‑making, and identity consolidation. The study demonstrates that, while the NATO dispute was highly visible and discursively prominent during the campaign, it did not decisively alter voting preferences but reinforced pre‑existing political alignments within differently positioned segments of the diaspora.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘This is not Migration Policy, this is Security, Security, and Security’: The Securitization of Migrants in Finnish Parliamentary Discourse on Instrumentalized Migration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article examines Finnish political discourse on recent migration events on the eastern border of the European Union and explores its broader societal impacts. Using discourse analysis and a theoretical framework of securitization and ‘othering,’ the study analyzes key Finnish parliamentary debates on instrumentalized migration from 2022–2024. The findings demonstrate how migration and migrants have been constructed as a national security issue in Finland through four dominant securitizing discourses: sovereignty, national protector, dangerous migrants, and transnational insecurities. The analysis shows that securitization in the context of instrumentalized migration takes a distinctly militarized form, in which migrants are depicted as weapon‑like actors, migrants’ rights are disconnected from the issue, and exceptional measures are legitimized. The findings further reveal how exclusionary securitizing rhetoric has become mainstream across party lines in discussions of instrumentalization. By examining how the processes of securitization and othering are aligned, I highlight how securitization, by reinforcing othering and social division, may paradoxically weaken security. I suggest that a more inclusive approach to instrumentalization could reduce the effectiveness of hybrid operations.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Religion, Solidarity, and Prejudice: Interreligious Attitudes Among Adolescents in Norway]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Religion has emerged as a potential barrier to integration in increasingly diverse European societies. While existing research on intergroup relations mostly focuses on majority members’ attitudes toward religious or ethnic minority groups, attitudes in minority populations have received less attention. This study uses data from the first wave of the Children of Immigrant Longitudinal Study in Norway to examine how religion relates to adolescents’ attitudes toward people of different faiths in a multireligious setting. Using multinomial logistic regression, the analysis reveals a dual relationship between religion and outgroup‑attitudes. On the one hand, there is evidence of general religious solidarity: religiously affiliated youth express more positive attitudes toward religious outgroups than the nonaffiliated. On the other hand, specific intergroup tensions emerge: Christian adolescents are more likely to hold negative attitudes toward Muslims (but not Jews or nonbelievers), while Muslims are more prone to view Jews negatively (but not Christians or nonbelievers). Moreover, school exposure to minority‑peers is linked to positive attitudes, while exposure to majority‑peers is not. Overall, the findings underscore the complex role of religion in integration processes, highlighting its potential to promote intergroup understanding and its capacity to reinforce social divisions, depending on the broader social and political context.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Mogstad, Heidi 2023. Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece. New York: Berghahn Books, 278 pp.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interpersonal Austerity as a Barrier to the Social Integration of Highly Skilled Immigrants in Norway]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this article, we examine barriers to the social integration of highly skilled immigrants in Norway, drawing on qualitative interviews. Many participants described significant challenges in forming friendships with Norwegians. Responding to calls to de-migranticize integration research, we shift the analytical focus from the immigrants to the wider society to understand these challenges. Building on anthropological work—particularly Gullestad’s notion of invisible fences—we argue that distinct cultural norms in Norway foster a sense of interpersonal austerity, in which social energy is treated as a scarce resource. Interpersonal austerity may help explain the integration paradox, i.e., that highly skilled immigrants tend to feel more detached from the host country than other immigrants. The combination of frequent interaction with the majority population and limited opportunities to form deeper relationships may heighten feelings of social exclusion. Moreover, immigrants with a cosmopolitan orientation may rely more on personal connections than on place-based belonging to feel anchored. While traditional migration theories emphasize economic austerity as a key motivator, our data suggest that interpersonal austerity can play a comparable role for some immigrants. Overall, our findings indicate that integration outcomes cannot be understood without critically examining the norms and gatekeeping practices of the majority population.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Bijak, Jakub (ed.) 2024. From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 166 pp.]]></title>
            <link>https://reference-global.com/article/10.33134/njmr.1144</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Home–School Cooperation in Children’s Education: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Parents in Finland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[While extensive research on home–school cooperation has been conducted both in Nordic countries and beyond, the perspectives of immigrant parents have received little attention. To bridge the gap, this qualitative study examines the narratives of 24 South Asian immigrant parents regarding home–school cooperation in Finnish schools. The findings are diverse and include positive experiences, concerns and fear. The positive accounts include satisfaction with teachers’ skills, acknowledgement of cultural values by schools, timely feedback and schools’ efforts to support migrant families. However, the narratives also highlight practical challenges, such as segregation, bullying of children and teachers’ unequal treatment of immigrant families. The study contributes theoretically by extending discussions on home–school cooperation through a sociocultural lens, highlighting how social norms shape cooperation and inviting a re-examination of the concept across diverse cultural contexts. Besides, we offer recommendations for promoting the educational inclusion of socioculturally diverse families in Finland.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book review of Eichler, Jessika and Topidi, Kyriaki (eds.) 2022. Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 256 pp.]]></title>
            <link>https://reference-global.com/article/10.33134/njmr.1168</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Compassion as a Social Emotion in Ethnographic Research with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this article, I explore compassion both as a social emotion and as a practice of encounter in ethnographic research. I argue that compassion is not a plain emotion but instead a socially relational one that prompts cognitive processes, leading to a desire to help. My focus is on how compassion deepens our understanding of vulnerability, exposure and the ethics of care in migration research. Empirically, this article draws on fieldwork conducted with unaccompanied refugee minors in Finland. I examine how emotionally challenging moments of (be)longing manifest in the lives of these young people and how compassion can be used to interpret their experiences. I propose that compassion comprises three interrelated dimensions: practical, ethical and analytical. I conclude that taking compassion seriously offers a pathway towards more ethically sustainable and caring research practices, particularly when working with vulnerable subjects and communities.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Between Benefit and Risk: Constructions of Skill and Competency of Internationally Educated Nurses in Sweden]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Highly skilled migrants in Sweden are at risk of exclusion from professions commensurate with their qualifications, particularly in regulated fields like nursing. In response, national policies and programmes have been introduced to facilitate the recognition of foreign qualifications and support the integration of skilled migrants. This paper explores how the competencies of internationally educated nurses (IENs) are constructed within bridging programmes, where professional regulators function as gatekeepers to professional re-entry. Drawing on the concept of a ‘regime of skill’, the study employs a qualitative approach to examine how university educators, administrators and supervisors in clinical training define and evaluate migrant competencies and how such constructions may enable or constrain the professional inclusion of IENs in the Swedish health care system. The analysis identifies two dominant constructions of skill and competency: IENs as an untapped resource and IENs as linguistically and professionally deficient. Both constructions position IENs as ‘others’, contrasting them with Swedish-trained nurses and reinforcing boundaries around professional belonging, albeit not exclusively through exclusionary practices. This paper argues for the importance of examining sector-specific skill regimes to better understand migrant inclusion or exclusion into the labour market.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Intra-Acting Assemblages: New Materialist Exploration of a Family Artifact and Belonging in Finnish Canadian Migration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This new materialist study explores the entanglement between material culture and transnational belonging and investigates the ways an artifact—an inherited vintage coffee creamer—represents transnational migration trajectories and belonging within one Finnish Canadian family across generations. The analysis, completed through a new materialist lens, demonstrates that the artifact is entangled in the trajectories and stories of family members’ lives. The artifact takes on a dual role. First, it offers a context and framework for discussion between the participants in the situation. Second, it acts as a voice in the life narratives of their family trajectories. The material artifact is a mediator, a participant in the implementation of mobility in times and spaces. Intra-action, embedded in the Finnish coffee-drinking tradition, reflects many-sided belonging and mobility patterns and connects the creamer and the study participants to places, family members, time periods, and even emotions. This study is located at the intersection of research on material culture, new materialism, intra-action, belonging, and migration. It emphasizes that things are not just things and highlights the relevance of material culture—here, one artifact—in family-migration trajectories across times and places and representations of transnational belonging.]]></description>
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