Publications

Awards and honours

Article of the Year award 2021 by the Association for Gender Studies in Finland for Johanna Hiitola, Zeinab Karimi and Valtteri Vähä-Savo (2021) Continuums of uncertainty: Forms of precarity and gendered violence in the lives of forced migrants [Epävarmuuden jatkumot: Prekaarisuuden muodot ja sukupuolistunut väkivalta pakkomuuttajien elämänkuluissa]. Sukupuolentutkimus-Genusforskning 34(3), 34-46.

Recent publications by the research group

Books

Hiitola, Johanna, Kati Turtiainen, Sabine Gruber and Marja Tiilikainen (eds.) (2020) Family life in transition: Borders, transnational mobility and welfare society in Nordic countries. London: Routledge.

Hiitola, Johanna, Merja Anis and Kati Turtiainen (eds.) (2018) Maahanmuutto, palvelut ja hyvinvointi. Kohtaamisissa kehittyviä käytäntöjä. [Migration, services and welfare. Evolving practices in encounters]. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Articles

Välimaa, Mira, Valtteri Vähä-Savo & Johanna Hiitola (forthcoming) Enrolling around – reconfiguring place and space in the wake of a new reception centre in a small rural town. Population, Space and Place.

Hiitola, Johanna (2021) Studying Intimacies that Matter: Affective Assemblages in Research Interviews with Forced Migrants. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2021.1890209

Hiitola, Johanna, Zeinab Karimi & Valtteri Vähä-Savo (2021) Epävarmuuden jatkumot: Prekaarisuuden muodot ja sukupuolistunut väkivalta pakkomuuttajien elämänkuluissa. [Continuums of uncertainty: Forms of precarity and gendered violence in the lives of forced migrants]. Sukupuolentutkimus-Genusforskning 34(3), 34-46.

Vähä-Savo, Valtteri, Jari Luomanen & Pertti Alasuutari (2021) Between rationalism and romanticism: metaphors in managing conflicting institutional logics in science and technology parks. Culture and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2021.1969650

Hiitola, Johanna & Valtteri Vähä-Savo (2021) Reassembling attachments: place and well-being among Afghan refugees in a small rural town. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1905507 

Hiitola, Johanna & Valtteri Vähä-Savo (2021) Genres of Departure: Forced Migrants’ Family Separation and Personal Narratives. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 11(3), 235–249. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.372

Vähä-Savo, Valtteri (2020) Cross-national comparisons in epistemic governance: analysis of parliamentary debates from eight countries. Contemporary Politics, 26(5), 597-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2020.1813931

Vähä-Savo, Valtteri (2020) Decoupling spheres of belonging in the Nordic welfare states. In Hiitola, Johanna, Kati Turtiainen, Sabine Gruber & Marja Tiilikainen (Eds.) Family life in transition: Borders, transnational mobility and welfare society in the Nordic countries. London: Routledge, 10-20.

Vähä-Savo, Valtteri, Jukka Syväterä & Leena Tervonen-Gonçalves (2019) The authority of meta-organisations: Making the International Association of National Public Health Institutes attractive to prospective members. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 6(4), 474-502. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2019.1612262

Alasuutari, Pertti; Valtteri Vähä-Savo & Laia Pi Ferrer (2019) National Self-Image as a Justification in Policy Debates: An International Comparison. New Global Studies, 13(2), 167–189. https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2018-4038

Hiitola, Johanna and Saara Pellander (2019) The alien child’s best interest ignored: when notions of gendered parenthood meet tightening immigration policies. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 27(4), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2019.1655093

Karimi, Zeinab & Johanna Hiitola (2019) Gender and social control in negotiations over filial obligations: adult children and their ageing parents in Iranian refugee families. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 10(2), 205-221.

Turtiainen, Kati & Johanna Hiitola (2018) Migrant parents talking back – Stigmatised identities and doing being ordinary. Qualitative Social Work, First Published September 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325018796667

Alasuutari, Pertti & Valtteri Vähä-Savo (2018) Owning worldwide principles: The case of American exceptionalism. Social Science Information, 57(4), 533-552. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0539018418816192

Hiitola, Johanna & Teija Hautanen (2017) Assessing violence in the family – social work, courts and discourses. Nordic Social Work Research, 7 (1), 30-41.

Vähä-Savo, Valtteri (2016) Sektoritutkimuksen genealogia. [Genealogy of Sectoral Research]. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 2138. Tampere: Tampere University Press.