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11th International ETMU Days Conference
In/Equalities in Diverse Societies.
Identifying Problems, Remedies, Alternatives
23–24 October 2014
University of Helsinki, Finland
Program & General information
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In/Equalities in Diverse Societies.
Identifying Problems, Remedies, Alternatives
The theme of the 11th international ETMU Days conference is In/Equalities in Diverse Societies.
Identifying Problems, Remedies, Alternatives. Poverty, precarity and different forms of ethnic
inequalities have been accentuated in the global North and South. Although these trends are
rooted in the legacy of colonialism, they have only been reinforced by the economic crisis.
Increasing social and economic inequalities not only erode social cohesion and the institutional
basis and democratic principles of societies, but also threaten and violate the capabilities and
human rights of people living in poverty. In societies which are increasingly defined by ethnic
diversity, solutions to tackle inequalities are not merely found in income redistribution, but must
include also social recognition and address questions related to political, legal and media
representations.
(Epa )tasa-arvo kulttuurisesti monimuotoisissa yhteiskunnissa: Ongelmia,
ratkaisuja ja vaihtoehtoja
Köyhyys, prekaarisuus ja etnisen epätasa-arvoisuuden eri muodot ovat kasvussa. Ilmiön juuret
ulottuvat kolonialismiin, ja talouskriisi on voimistanut epätasa-arvoisuuden kasvua. Lisääntyvä
sosiaalinen ja taloudellinen eriarvoisuus paitsi horjuttaa sosiaalista koheesiota ja yhteiskuntien
institutionaalisia ja demokraattisia periaatteita, myös loukkaa ihmisoikeuksia. Kasvavan etnisen
monimuotoisuuden leimaamissa yhteiskunnassa vaihtoehdot epätasa-arvoisuudelle eivät löydy
vain tuloerojen tasaamisesta: niiden tulee kytkeytyä myös sosiaaliseen, oikeudelliseen ja
poliittiseen tunnustukseen.
XI kansainvälisten ETMU-päivien teema käsittelee kasvavan eriarvoisuuden syitä ja seurauksia
erityisesti sosiaalitieteellisistä ja humanistisista näkökulmista käsin. Konferenssissa etsitään myös
keinoja tasa-arvon edistämiseen monimuotoisissa yhteiskunnissa. Konferenssin järjestävät
yhteistyössä Etnisten suhteiden ja nationalismin tutkimuskeskus CEREN, Helsingin yliopiston
sosiaalitieteiden laitos sekä ETMU ry.
Organising committee
Lotta Haikkola, University of Helsinki
Peter Holley, University of Helsinki
Johanna Leinonen, University of Turku
Tuuli-Anna Mähönen, University of Helsinki
Lena Näre, University of Helsinki (chair)
Jan Saarela, University of Helsinki
Heidi Aaltonen, University of Helsinki (general secretary)
Student assistants:
Olivia Maury, Jenny Högström, Mia Rosendahl
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Conference program
Day 1, Thursday 23rd
Day 2, Friday 24th
09:00
Registration opens
University Main Building, entrance lobby
10:15
Opening remarks
09:30
Jan Saarela, Director of CEREN
Keijo Rahkonen, Head of the Department
of Social Research
Lotta Haikkola, Chair of Etmu
Keynote: Multicultural Conviviality in
the Midst of Racism’s Ruins
Professor Les Back
Chair: Peter Holley
10:30
Keynote: Inequalities of the 21st
Century World: The Major Battles
Professor Göran Therborn
Chair: Lena Näre
10:30
Coffee Break
11:30
Annual ETMU Award
11:00
Keynote: Dimensions of Inequality:
Divided by Status and Competition
Professor Susan Fiske
Chair: Tuuli Anna Mähönen
12:00
Lunch
Etmu book launch. Ulos kammiosta!
nd
Lobby, 2 floor
12:00
Lunch
13:15
Keynote: Segregation and Spatial
Inequality in the United States
Professor Douglas S. Massey:
Chair: Johanna Leinonen
13:15
Workshops 3
14:15
Coffee Break
14:45
Coffee Break
14:45
Workshops 1
15:15
Workshops 4
Joint Program: A Conversation with
Renata Pepicelli, The Veil In Islam (p. 12)
15:45
Break
16:15
Break
16:30
Keynote: The Individualisation of
Racism and Its Contestations. A
Nordic Perspective
Academy Research Fellow Suvi Keskinen
Chair: Lotta Haikkola
17:30
–
19:30
Closing of the conference: University of
Helsinki Reception
Teachers' Lobby (Lehtisali), Main Building
16:00 Workshops 2
–17.30
18:00
Reception by the City of Helsinki City
Hall (map p. 15)
20:00
Conference dinner
Restaurant Sipuli
(map, p. 15)
09:00
Registration opens
University Main Building, entrance
lobby
Lobby, 2
nd
floor
Note that the opening remarks, Etmu
Award and all keynote lectures will be
held in Lecture Hall 1, Main Building
The Joint program will be held in Think
Corner (map p. 15)
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ETMU DAYS 2014 Keynote Speakers
Les Back, Professor, Goldsmith’s, University of London, UK
Professor Les Back’s research interests cover a variety of topics, including racism and ethnicity,
popular culture and music, urban life, community, and social divisions and class, social theory and
sociological research methods. He has led several projects funded by the UK’s Economic and
Social Research Council and has most recently participated in the EU-funded EUMARGINS (On
the Margins of the European Community) project.
Susan Fiske, Professor, Princeton University, US
Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton
University. She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional
prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuro-scientific levels. She is the author of over 300
publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, and she has been elected to the National
Academy of Sciences.
Douglas S. Massey, Professor, Princeton University, US
Douglas S. Massey has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of
Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international migration, race and housing, discrimination,
education, urban poverty, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the author, most recently, of
Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American
Suburb (Princeton University Press 2013). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Göran Therborn, Professor, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK, Affiliated Professor of
Sociology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Former co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for
Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala, former Professor of Sociology at Gothenburg
University, Sweden, former Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University Nijmegen,
Netherlands. He has worked in and on all the populated continents of the world. His works have
been published in at least twenty-four languages. He is also a civic intellectual, with a lifetime
commitment to universal freedom and equality.
Suvi Keskinen, Academy Research Fellow, Associate Professor, University of Turku, Finland
Suvi Keskinen is Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Social Research, University of
Turku, Finland. Her current study focuses on postethnic activism in the Nordic countries in the
neoliberal and neonationalist context. Previously she has conducted research on right-wing
populism and anti-immigration movement, media debates on immigration and multiculturalism,
gendered violence and welfare state. Her research interests include postcolonial feminism, critical
race and whiteness studies, politics of belonging, nationalism and political activism. She has
published widely in Finland and internationally.
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Workshop timetables and conference facilities
1 ETHNIC INEQUALITIES IN THE CITY
Organizers: Linda Haapajärvi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France & Katja
Vilkama, City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Auditorium XIII (Old side, 3rd floor)
Session 1, 14.45–15.45
1. Saija Niemi: Place and interaction in cities during forced migration movements: forced
migrant experiences through a grounded theory
2. Eveliina Lyytinen: Congolese refugees’ ‘right to the city’ in Kampala, Uganda
Session 2 16.00–17.30
1. Tarja Tolonen: Young people in public spaces
2. Michail Galanakis: Intercultural public space and activism learning from Toronto
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–14.45, Conference room
Session 3
3. Tuula Joronen & Martti Tuominen: Feelings of safety among second generation young
immigrants in Helsinki
4. Mika Hyötyläinen: Immigrants and ethnic minorities in the city: Comments on terminology of
Finnish urban studies
5. Concluding remarks and discussion
2 HEALTH AND WELLBEING AMONGST THE URBAN PRECARIAT: INTERSECTIONAL
EXCLUSION, RESISTANCE AND COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTIONS
Organizers: Margaret Greenfields, Institute for Diversity Research, Bucks New University, UK &
David Smith, Department of Social Work and Health Development, University of Greenwich, UK
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Auditorium III (Old side, 2nd floor)
1. David Smith: Introduction Guy Standing and the urban precariat
2. Margaret Greenfields & David Smith: Doing it for ourselves: narratives of resistance,
resilience and empowering the precariat from within
3. Marketa Dolezalova: Well-being and 'being well' among Roma migrants in Leeds, England
4. Jenni Berlin: Discrimination among the discriminated. Finnish Roma in urban Helsinki.
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.15, Conference room
5. Allison Savory: Avoiding eviction: supporting the precariat with mental health needs in
social housing
6. Can Yildiz: Conveyor belts moving women in and out of prison
7. Jessica Wheeler: Resistance, mutual aid, and charity as bridges to social capital, health
and well-being among the migrant precariat of Calais
8. Margaret Greenfields & David Smith: Plenary session
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3 RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES OF MULTICULTURAL LIVING – FROM GOVERNANCE TO
REMEDIES
Organizers: Ville-Samuli Haverinen & Päivi Harinen, Department of Social Sciences, University of
Eastern Finland, Tuomas Martikainen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland & Niko Pyrhönen, Swedish
School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, Conference room: Auditorium IV (Old side, 2nd floor)
Session 1, 14.45–16.10: Multiculturalism, governance, integration
1. Ville-Samuli Haverinen: National models of integration in cross-national comparisons – The
case of the United States and Finland
2. Elke Murdock: Attitude towards multiculturalism – a ‘majority in minority’ in perspective
3. Tanja Riikonen: Do Muslim identities matter? – Multiculturalism in Finland and in the
Quebec Province, Canada
4. Mojtaba Shahnoushi: Social cleavages in post-revolutionary Iran
Session 2, 16.25–17.30: Local remedies to challenges to multicultural living
5. Olga Tkach: Governing migrant integration in Russia: institutional design and approaches
to collaboration
6. Linda Cook: Tajik Migrants and Medical Care in Russia’s Fragmented Welfare State
7. Yasemin Inkaya: From refugee to entrepreneur: The case of Somalis in Finland and in the
US.
8. Päivi Harinen: ‘Active-aged’ immigrants as a demographic resource for the Finnish rural
periphery: Lieksa as a case
4 MIGRANT ROMA IN EUROPEAN ‘LIMBOSCAPES’: LOCATIONS, REPRESENTATIONS,
INEQUALITIES
Organizers: Miika Tervonen, Centre for Nordic Studies CENS, University of Helsinki, Finland &
Anca Enache, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of
Helsinki, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, 16.00–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 21 (New side, 5th floor)
Session 1
1. Stefan Benedik: Faceless women, mysterious mafiosi: Intersectional representations of
Romani migrants in Central European media
2. Miika Tervonen: Criminals, victims or migrants? Political and media framing of Roma
migrants in Nordic countries, 1990-2013
3. Can Yildiz: Profitable miseries. How Roma Mobility is fed into maintaining a system of
inequalities
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–14.45
Session 2
4. Markus Himanen: Battle of Kalasatama – The politics of rights of EU citizens at a parking
lot
5. Anca Enache: Going beyond the irregularity paradigm – an exploration of Roma children’s
geographies of mobilities and resistances in Europe
6. Raluca Bianca Roman: Religious belonging and social becoming among the Finnish Roma:
Pentecostalism and the meaning of Roma religious mobilization in shaping the meaning of
(in)equality and marginality within contemporary Finnish Society
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5 PROCESSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN THE MEDIA
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.15, Confe rence room: Auditorium II (Old side, 2nd floor)
Organizers: Johanna Leinonen, John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of
Turku, Finland & Miia Rantala, Graduate School of Communication Studies, University of Lapland,
Finland
1. Katarina Petterson: To be or not to be feminist: Ideological dilemmas of female politicians of
the populist radical-right
2. Erna Bodström: The Finns, immigrants and the society: discourses of inclusion in the
information booklets of the official Finland
3. Lara Willox, Barbara Kawulich, Dianne Hoff & Sarah Jones: Moving beyond
acknowledgement: representation of diverse families
6 EPÄTASA-ARVON PUOLUSTAJAT? OIKEISTOPOPULISTISET, RASISTISET JA
NATIVISTISET NÄKEMYKSET TASA-ARVOISESTA YHTEISKUNNASTA
Thu, October 23, 2014, 16.00–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 9 (New side, 3rd floor)
Organizers: Vesa Puuronen, Oulun yliopisto & Kari Saari, Itä-Suomen yliopisto
1. Matti Välimäki: Perussuomalaisten maahanmuuttolinjausten haastaminen julkisessa
keskustelussa vuoden 2011 eduskuntavaaleissa ja 2014 europarlamenttivaaleissa
2. Jarmila Rajas: (E)quality, social Darwinism and the production of fit society
3. Vesa Puuronen & Kari Saari: Nativismi ja itäsuomalaiset nuoret
7 AMBIVALENCE, DYNAMICS, IN/VISIBILITIES AND POWER OF RACIALIZATION
Organizers: Albina Gakuru-Hipp & Pauline Hortelano, Women’s Studies, Åbo Akademi University,
Finland & Minna Seikkula, Sociology, University of Turku, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, Conference room: Lecture room 13 (New side, 3rd floor)
14.45–15.45
1. Opening words
2. Aleksi Huhta: ‘Race’: A category of analysis or a category of practice?
3. Anne Lavanchy: The failure of logos: The challenges of racialised inequalities in a racemute society
16.00–17.30
4. Chuan-Ying Liu: Transnational marriage migrants: Gendered, nationalism, and racial
experiences in Taiwan
5. Albina Gakuru-Hipp: Postcolonial relations of race in Kenya: the shift from racial to ethnic
and national identities
6. General discussion
Fri, October 24, 2014, Conference room: Lecture room 13 (New side, 3rd floor)
13.15–16.15
7. Mari Toivanen: Diasporic consciousness, racialized belonging and home-making in the
narrations of second-generation Kurds in Helsinki and Paris
8. Jenni Helakorpi: Becoming teaching assistants with Roma background
9. Minna Seikkula: Anti-racism without race, complexities in addressing racialization
10. General discussion (until 16.15)
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10 SUBALTERN VOICES: ISSUES OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM THE
SOUTH
Organizer: Annika Teppo, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 15 (New side, 4th floor)
Session 1 14.45–15.45 Colonial subjectivities and epistemic violence
1. Emily Höckert: Welcome of the other: Hospitality in Nicaraguan tourism encounters
Postcolonial condition
2. Terwase Akuya: British colonial administration and its policies of inequality in northern
Nigeria
Session 2, 16.00-17.30
Vulnerable people and social exclusion
3. Perpetual Crentsil: Multifaceted inequality: HIV/AIDS patients, poverty, and healthcare
delivery services in Ghana
4. J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada: Igbo ethnic baggage: the case of the descendants of Osu
ritual slaves of eastern Nigeria
Governance in Africa
5. Samuel O. Oloruntoba: Liberal democracy and the challenges of inequality in Africa:
Towards a new democratic paradigm?
11 IMMIGRANT YOUTH, EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Organizers: Lotta Haikkola, University of Helsinki, Finland & Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, University of
Turku, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, Session 14.45–17.30, Room: Lecture room 5 (New side, 3rd floor)
1. Thomas Babila Sama: African migrants with terminal degrees from Finnish universities:
Opportunities or dead ends?
2. Lotta Haikkola: Defining ‘immigrant background’ in the youth services in the employment
offices: discourse of equality and the category of ‘immigrant’
3. Heidi Vaarala, Niina Lilja & Sari Pöyhönen: Migrant young adults and the learning
apparatus in Finland
Session 2 16.00-17.30
4. Marianne Teräs, Johanna Lasonen, & Carine Cools: Immigrant Youth in-between Schools:
Tensions and Transitions
5. Elina Kilpi-Jakonen: Pathways into and out of early school leaving – children of immigrants
in Finland
6. Perttu Salmenhaara: Wasting human capital. Employment- and over-qualification rates of
the foreign-born and women in Europe
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.15, Session 3
7. Jolien Geerlings: The role of teacher self-efficacy in explaining ethnic differences in
educational achievement
8. Raisa Akifyeva: The experience of teaching migrant children as a form of intergroup
contact: relations to teacher expectations and stereotype content
9. Katarzyna Kärkkäinen: Education, employment, social networks and integration of adult
migrant students: migrant students’ and trainers’ perspective
Session 4 15.15–16.15
10. Aija Lulle: 'All my friends were leaving': discomforting geographies of being young in a
crisis-hit Latvia
11. Gunnel Mohme: ‘When I grow up, I want to become a doctor’ – Somali-Swedish girls write
essays on their life-plans
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12 CONSTRUCTING IN/EQUALITIES AND JUSTICE IN EDUCATION IN THE NORDIC
COUNTRIES?
Organizers: Tuuli From & Jenni Helakorpi & Antti Paakkari, Institute of Behavioural Sciences,
University of Helsinki, Finland
Fri, 24 October, 2014, 13.15–16.15, Conference room: Lecture room 8 (New side, 3rd floor)
1. Anna Ambrose: School choice and a local school market: A case study of urban schooling
in Stockholm
2. Heidi Vartiainen: Well-functioning neighborhood schools in challenging areas in Helsinki
3. Ina Juva: Who is a ‘normal’ student? The discourses of the Finnish lower secondary school
teachers of normality
4. Arman Haghestedt: Education and career (plan) of young Iranians in Finland
5. Pia Mikander: The concepts of ‘West’ and ‘western values’ in Finnish school textbooks
6. Eeva Rinne: Multiculturalism and national identity in Finnish primary school textbooks
7. Anna-Leena Riitaoja: Constructing otherness in school: A study of curriculum texts and
everyday life of two primary schools in Helsinki, Finland
13 IN/EQUALITIES AT WORK: SEGREGATION OF LABOUR IN DIVERSE SOCIETIES
Organizer: Tiina Vaittinen, School of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 12 (New side, 3rd floor)
1. Sanna Saksela-Bergholm: Living day by day. Temporary labour migrants’ experiences of
temporariness and social insecurity
2. Tatjana Rynkänen & Mirja Tarnanen: Transforming working-life with eyes of languages:
negotiations of equality in workplaces in Finland
3. Aija Virtanen: The Struggle of becoming a legitimated nurse within Finnish labour market
4. Maiju Partanen: Setting language requirements within cleaning organizations
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.15, Conference room: Lecture room 12 (New side, 3rd floor)
5. Olga Tkach & Olga Brednikova: Not by bread alone: Labour migration and hedonism
6. Speranta Dumitru: How gendered is the international division of labor? The case of Filipina
workers in Italy and the USA
7. Perttu Salmenhaara: Labour market marginalisation of the Turkish-born in Sweden and
Germany: the impact of the host society.
8. Jaana Palander, Tiina Vaittinen & Lena Näre: The rights of labour migrants in Europe: An
empirical analysis
14 GENERATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS, SOCIAL CONTROL AND GENDERED SEXUALITY
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 10 (New side, 3rd floor)
Organizer: Marja Peltola, The Finnish Youth Research Network & University of Helsinki, Finland
1. Päivi Honkatukia & Suvi Keskinen: Young people’s negotiations of social control, gender
and sexuality in multi-ethnic localities
2. Anne Häkkinen: Strategies and counter narratives of confronting social control and othering
images of sexuality among Kurdish women
3. Sari Rusanen: Meetings and encounters in the Girls’ House – Negotiations on multicultural
identity and gender
4. Veronika Honkasalo: Methodological triangulation when studying social control in
multicultural settings
5. Discussion
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Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–14.45, Conference room: Lecture room 10 (New side, 3rd floor)
6. Marja Peltola: Young people and gendered and ethnicized experiences of violence
7. Lisa Grans: The potential of international human rights law to effectively prevent honourrelated violence, with particular attention to the prohibition of torture and the right to privacy
8. Maria Väkiparta: Young men’s agency in eradicating gendered harmful social practices.
Case female genital mutilation/cutting
15 TRANSNATIONALITY OF COUPLE FORMATION, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 8 (New side, 3rd floor)
Organizers: Marja Tiilikainen, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland &
Minna Säävälä, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki & Population Research
Institute, Finland
1. Sanna Mustasaari: Facts and norms of love? Transnational marriages and legal pluralism
2. Anna-Maria Tapaninen: True relations: DNA-testing for family reunification in Finland
3. Mulki Al-Sharmani: Striving against the ‘Nafs’: The ethical and the legal in Muslim spousal
roles in Finland
4. Abdirashid Ismail: Marriage processes and rituals among the diasporic Somalis: The case
of Finland
5. Eveliina Heino: Social relationships providing social support for families with a Russian
background in Finland
6. Tam Nguyen: Vietnamese female immigrants in Finland and changes in familial gender
roles
7. Marja Tiilikainen: Parental roles and challenges in Canadian-Somali families
8. Minna Säävälä: Asian marriage migrants in Finland: The role of transnational networks and
integration
16 TRANSNATIONAL AGEING: TRANSFORMING EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF OLDER AGE
Organizers: Lena Näre, University of Helsinki, Finland & Katie Walsh, University of Sussex, UK
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 3 (New side, 2nd floor)
Migrations, older age and home-making
1. Tanja Bastia: The implications of diversified migration streams for transnational ageing
2. Russell King, Eralba Cela; Tineke Fokkema & Julie Vullnetari: The migration and wellbeing
of the zero generation: Transgenerational care, grandparenting and loneliness amongst
Albanian older people
3. Chih-Yan (Ken) Sun: Going home to contribute: How aging Taiwanese return migrants
engage in home-country development
4. Katie Walsh: Home life: domestic practices among British migrant returnees
5. Discussion / comments by Russell King
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.30
 Care and older age in transnational migration contexts
6. Loretta Baldassar, Laura Ferrero & Lucia Portis: ‘More like a friend than an employee’:
informal relationships of care between elderly employers, paid carers and their respective
extended families. Presentation via Skype.
7. Paolo Boccagni & Maurizio Ambrosini: ‘There is always something missing’. Traditional
moral economies and emerging views of the future among mature immigrant care workers
in Italy
8. Cati Coe: Transnational migration and new elder care arrangements in Ghana
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9. Lena Näre: Juggling transnational care and mobility in older age: Transnational Gujarati
families in the UK
10. Discussion / comments by Russell King
11. Final remarks and wrap up
17 RELIGIOUS EQUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
Organizer: Teemu Pauha, Study of Religion, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–15.45, Conference room: Lecture room 16 (New side, 4th floor)
1. Rebecca Vazquez-Gomez: The Islamic veil at the European Court of Human Rights: Is
Islam not accepted yet?
2. Sari Hammar: Religious and cultural awareness as a welfare supporting factor. In focus: the
multicultural work of the civic organisations in Finland
3. Kholoud Al-Ajarma: From Iraq to Chile: Religious practices and transformation among the
Palestinian refugees
18 PARTICIPATORY METHODS IN RESEARCH ON AFRICAN DIASPORAS
Organizers: Anna Rastas & Uyi Osazee, University of Tampere, Finland
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 7 (New side, 3rd floor)
1. Päivi Pirkkalainen: Meanings of Somali diaspora associations in Finland. Research results
re-visited in the participatory knowledge production process
2. Uyi Osazee: Places of homeliness: Exploring the diversity of experiences for ‘mixed
parentage’ families in Finland
3. Anna Rastas: The benefits of participatory methods in research on transnational and
diasporic subjects
4. Sasha Huber: Reflections on African traces in Finland
5. Anna Linna: Consuming cultures: Appropriating Afro-diasporic dances in Finland, Colombia
and beyond
19 INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGES OF DIVERSE
SOCIETIES
Organizer: Liisa Kosonen, Social Psychology
Thursday, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 6 (New side, 3rd
floor)
1. Fadilla Mutiarawati: Lesson Learn from SOKOLA, local NGO in Indonesia. Presentation via
Skype.
2. Lindall Elaine Adams: Fighting poverty, fighting illiteracy: the library solution. Presentation
via Skype.
3. Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala & Amiirah Salleh-Hoddin: Qutomo Project: Facilitating
integration through dialogue
4. Sarah Jones, Lara Willox, Barbara Kawulich & Dianne Hoff: Generating Equity while
Scaffolding Student Success in Higher Education
5. David Hoffman, Driss Habti, Thomas Sama, Taru Siekkinen & Anatoly Stikhin: SelfEthnography as Intervention: Circumventing Methodological Nationalism
Friday, October 24, 2014, 13.15–16.15
6. Katarina Jirsa: Competitiveness of Women Victims of Domestic Violence on Labor Market –
Problems and Perspectives
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7. Barbara Kawulich, Lara Willox, Dianne Hoff & Sarah Jones: Educating Diverse Students
8. Liudmila Helanterä: Fenomenografia venäjänkielisten maahanmuuttajien käsitysten
tutkimusmenetelmänä (in Finnish)
20 INTEGRATION OF THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING MINORITY IN FINLAND AND ESTONIA
Thu, October 23, 2014, 14.45–17.30, Conference room: Lecture room 14 (New side, 4th floor)
Organizer: Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Intergroup relations in Finland
1. Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti & Tuuli Anna Mähönen: Introduction
2. Merja Pentikäinen: Significance of Legal and Non-legal Measures in Social Integration
Processes as Informed by International Law – with Special Reference to Integrating the
Russian-Speakers in Finland
3. Asteria Brylka: Determinants of inclusive intergroup relations: Findings among national
majority and Russian-speaking immigrants in Finland
4. Emma Nortio & Sirkku Varjonen: On the boundaries of Finnishness
Part 2: Intergroup relations in Estonia
5. Anna Korhonen: Integration and transnational minority protection policies as seen by
Russian-speakers in Estonia
6. Raivo Vetik: Inclusive acculturation context in the perspective of neo-Weberian cultural
sociology
7. Marianna Drozdova & Aune Valk: Measuring acculturation context
8. General Discussion
21 CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN MIGRATION STUDIES
Fri, October 24, 2014, 13.15–14.45, Conference room: Lecture room 7 (New side, 3rd floor)
Organizer: Peter Holley, CEREN, University of Helsinki, Finland
1. Elina Paju: Immigrant youth at risk: Epistemological and ethical baselines for the studying
of vulnerable groups
2. Paolo Boccagni: Migration and home as absence, feeling and (re)construction: a
conceptual overview
3. Maire-Laure Basilien-Gainche: The nature of the EU borders revisited: From geographic
and territorial borders to normative and personal borders
JOINT PROGRAM: Conversation with Renata Pepicelli: The Veil in Islam
Fri, October 24, 2014, 15.15-16.15 Think Corner (address: Yliopistokatu 3, Porthania
Building)
“The Muslim veil” continues to be a source of heated debates. How do Muslim women interpret
religious knowledge? How do policies on Muslim minorities and the regulation of religion in the
public sphere impact them? Welcome to listen to Renata Pepicelli, author of Il velo nell’Islam –
Storia, politica, estetica (Finnish transl. Islamin huntu, Vastapaino 2014), and Academy Research
Fellow Mulki Al-Sharmani discuss Pepicelli’s new book. The event is open to the public.
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Practical information
Conference venue & lecture rooms
The main conference venue is the Main Building (Päärakennus) of the University of Helsinki
(street address: Fabianinkatu 33), located in the City Centre of Helsinki.
Registration, keynotes sessions, workshops and lunches will all be held in the Main Building. The
registration desk is located in the entrance lobby. The workshops are held in the lecture halls,
partly on the “new side” and partly on the “old side” of the Main Building. The main access through
the Main Building from side to side is on the second floor. Lecture rooms marked with numbers
(Lecture room 1) are on the “new side” (Fabianinkatu side, street address Fabianinkatu 33).
Auditoriums marked with Roman numbers (Aud X) are on the “old side” (on the Senate Square
side, street address Unioninkatu 34). Conference room numbers are marked in the workshop
timetable. All keynote sessions will be held in Lecture Hall 1 (New side, 2nd floor).
The Main Building attendant: tel. +358 (0) 2941 23151 (new side) & +358 (0) 2941 22647 (old
side).
Getting around
Airport: Bus 615 services between the Helsinki Airport and the Railways Station. It takes about 30
minutes and costs 5 euros. You can purchase the ticket in the bus with cash or from a ticket
machine at the bus stop with card or cash. The bus leaves from the platform 2 (Terminal T1) and
the platform 21 (Terminal T2).
Conference venue: The Main Building in the City Centre Campus is located in the center of
Helsinki, by the Senate Square (Senaatintori). The Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33, see map on p.
15) is walking distance (600 meters) from the Central Railway Station and the conference hotels.
Trams 2, 3, 4 and 7A&B stop next to the Main Building.
Conference dinner will be held at the Restaurant Sipuli (Kanavaranta 7), near the Main Building
(500 meters). Trams 4 and 4T stop next to the restaurant. The Sipuli Restaurant is set in a restored
brick warehouse, and the kitchen is renowned for its combination of Nordic traditions and new
international cuisine.
Public transport tickets in Helsinki
With a single ticket you can hop aboard trams, buses and the metro. Single tickets can be
purchased from the driver or from ticket machines (2,5 euros single ticket with one hour of
unlimited travel). Day tickets (within Helsinki, does not include the airport) are available for
unlimited use on public transportation for 1-7 days. They can be purchased from ticket machines or
from the Helsinki City Transport service point in the Central Railway Station or from the drivers.
Taxis
 Taksi-Helsinki, tel. +358 (0)100 0700 (1,17€/call +0,25€/10 seconds + local call charge)
 Airport Taxi Yellow Line, tel. +358 (0)600 555 555 (1,25 €/call + local call charge). From
the airport to the city centre with special price.
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Wireless network
There are two separate wireless networks at the University of Helsinki: Eduroam and HUPnet.
You can access Eduroam if your home university or affiliation is connected to Eduroam; it is set to
work right away on university administered devices.
If Eduroam is not working for you, you can log in via HUPnet. In order to log in via HUPnet:
User name: hupnet20813
Password: anu36hame
Lunch and coffee
Lunch will be served in the Main Building, on the 2nd floor lobby, outside Lecture Hall 1 where the
keynote sessions are held.
Cafés and restaurants nearby
Many nice cafés and restaurants are located around the Senate Square, the Market Square and
the Esplanade Promenade (map on the next page), just around the corner of the conference
venue:
 Café Engel (Aleksanterinkatu 26), an idyllic café in the Senate Square, with a view of the
Cathedral. Free WLAN for customers.
 Café Strindberg (Pohjoisesplanadi 33), a café on the street level and on the second floor is
Strindberg à la carte and Strindberg's Bakficka.
 Café Esplanad (Pohjoisesplanadi 37) is well known especially for its huge cinnamon rolls
(a Finnish sweet pastry called korvapuusti) that are baked in the café’s own bakery.
 Fazer Café (Kluuvikatu 3). Karl Fazer’s French-Russian café & cake shop was opened on
Kluuvikatu in 1891. Some of the café&cake shop’s goodies are still made on Kluuvikatu,
and it is possible to see the confectioners at work behind glass.
 Restaurant Kappeli (Eteläesplanadi 11) serves classical Finnish dishes from reindeer to
salmon. The dining room has a unique atmosphere, at once cozy and stylish, comprising
the beauty of Esplanadi Park.
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Map of the city centre
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1 Central Railway Station
2 University of Helsinki, Main Building
3 Restaurant Sipuli
4 Senate Square
5 Original Sokos Hotel Helsinki
6 Scandic Hotel Paasi
7 Hotel Arthur
8 Hotel Cumulus Kaisaniemi
9 Omena Hotel Helsinki
10 Hotel Seurahuone Helsinki
11 City Hall (address: Pohjoisesplanadi 11–13. A group will leave from the conference cite UH
Main Building by the registration desk at 17.50)
12 Tiedekulma/Think Corner
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Cooperation and partners
The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social
Science, University of Helsinki
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV)
Finnish Youth Research Society
The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU)
Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
SOVAKO Graduate School of Social Psychology
University of Helsinki
City of Helsinki
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