| 9.00-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-10.15 | Opening words |
| 10.15-11.30 | Keynote: Does inclusion require settlement? Lessons from studying healthcare for people on the move – Professor Karolina Follis, Lancaster University |
| 11.30-12.30 | Lunch |
| 12.30-14.00 | Parallel Sessions 1.1–1.5 |
| 14.00-14.30 | Coffee break |
| 14.30-16.00 | Parallel sessions 2.1–2.5 |
Room: Pieni juhlasali (F4050)
Yasmin Samaletdin, Seija Jalagin – Pathways to societal change in migration research: Reflections from the Mobile Futures
Eva Malessa – Breaking barriers to accessibility and usability in a serious game: Redesigning a literacy support game app to make it LESLLA-friendly
Miia Seppänen, Suvi Valsta, Salla Kuuluvainen – The ReBel Journey – Harnessing design thinking in research can create magic
Kirsi Leskinen, Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö, Sanna Mustonen – Identifying and breaking language-related institutional barriers to higher education for students from migrant backgrounds
Megan Dale – Migrant Participation in Sustainability Transformations: A Systematic Literature Review
Room: U4079
Riikka Era – Bridging Barriers through Art: Low-Threshold Encounters in a Finnish Reception Centers
Anthony Nimely – Building Belonging in Transit: Everyday Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Migrants and Host Communities in Peripheral Urban Spaces
Venla Rantanen – Resisting Otherness through Humor in adult basic education classroom
Annika Valtonen – Ethnicity-based categories as bridges and barriers in storytelling interactions
Paula Paajanen – The lived experience of repeated intergroup contact in a befriending program: A dyadic, longitudinal and multimodal analysis
Room: U4072
Frida Alizadeh Westerling – Techno-legal modalities in asylum law
Nia Sullivan, Tuuli Kurki – From Filtering Harm to Building Joy - Digital Advocacy and Collective Care by, with and for Racialized Communities
Gwenaëlle Bauvoisi – Femonationalism and Digital Feminist Repertoires - The Case of Collectif Némésis
Shomaila Sadaf, Marko Siitonen – Faith, Friction, and the Feed - A Discursive Analysis of Religious Intolerance on Social Media
Room: F3010
David Hoffman, Sonya Sahradyan, Merja Perhonen, Heidi Säntti – Visualizing Structural Dynamics to Better Understand the (Ir)Relevance and Limitations of Design Thinking and the Hype Around Digitalization and AI: Bringing a Bigger Picture into View (LEVERAGE)
Chamanie Nanayakkara – Hello Helsinki! (on the everyday experiences of food delivery workers)
Room: F3005
TBA
Room: Pieni juhlasali (F4050)
Discussion
Room: U4079
Olga Tkach – Making and breaking barriers across homestay accommodation: Mediating labour beyond hosting households
Maarit Pönkänen – A narrative dyadic study of loneliness among mothers participating in a befriending programme
Athina Simatou – Visual and Performative Narratives: Feminist Storytelling as Inclusionary Practice in Contemporary Cities
Ángel García Morales, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez – Bridging Communication Gaps: Protocols for Telephone Interpreting with Neurodivergent Patients in Spanish Healthcare
Heli Tikkanen, Lotta Haikkola – ”No, we don´t really talk about racism.” DEI and Avoidance of Discussions on Racism in the Finnish Private Sector.
Room: U4072
Pia Hagqvist, Perpetual Crentsil – Culture and digital skills – Gender, minorities, and barriers in accessing health
Maryna Smahina – ‘More Than Sufferers’ - Digital Boundary - Making and Belonging through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland
Sukthawee Suwannachairop – Digital Participation of Migrants and Refugees from Myanmar
Claudia Lintner – Between Presence and Exclusion - Digital Belonging in the Lives of Undocumented Migrants in Italy
Room: U3039
Naomi Howard – From Bureaucracy to Bot: Evaluating AI-Mediated Information Access for Migrant Inclusion in Urban Europe
Inge Bimie – No language left behind? Linguistic justice in the age of AI
Savitri Jetoo, Gail Krantzberg – Sanctuary by design: Artificial intelligence and the rise of the North American Great Lakes Climate Havens
Room: U4075
Samira Barzegar – Piranfar Invisible yet present: investigating subtle forces shaping the educational paths of Afghan migrants students in Iran
Tatiana Morais – Navigating Divides: How Grassroots Movements and NGOs Help Overcome Group Barriers
Yi-Hsuan Huang – Building Bridges through Participatory Curation: Strengthening Indigenous Adolescents’ Ethnic Identity and Historical Empathy
Barış Yüksel – Postmigrant Futures and Imaginaries: Rethinking Belonging of Racialized Young Adults in Finland and Germany in Times of Rising Anti-immigration Sentiments
| 10.15-11.30 | Keynote: Tech at the Crossroads: Navigating Migration in a Digital World – Associate Professor Amanda Paz Alencar, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 11.30-12.30 | Lunch |
| 12.30-14.00 | Parallel sessions 3.1-3.5 |
| 14.00-14.30 | Coffee break |
| 14.30-16.00 | Panel discussion |
| 16.00-16.15 | ETMU award and final words |
Room: Pieni juhlasali (F4050)
Frida Hartman, Maïmouna Matikainen-Soreau, Linda Mannila – Who conducts research on AI bias, and what are the implications?
Katharina Ruuska – "Make for me comprehension and writing test for Finnish language B1 level, like real one”. Language learning, digital technologies and social (dis)connection in a migration context
Meysam Abedi – Designing a Blockchain Framework to Rebuild Trust: Overcoming Digital Barriers of Misinformation in the GenAI Era
Room: U3029
Henna Nurmi – This is not Migration Policy, this is Security, Security, and Security’: Securitization of Migrants in Finnish Political Discourse on Instrumentalized Migration
Olga Cielemecka – Border Barriers: From Barbed Wire to Smart Fence
Iiris Annala – EU social security regulations, statistics and the epistemic government of EU mobility
Mohammed Asaduzzaman – Digitalization and Public Administration Ethics in Bangladesh: A Contemporary Analysis
Room: U3041
Interactive craft workshop by Annukka Svanda
Room: U3043
Linda Bäckman – International students as a potentially vulnerable group in Finnish society
Areen Nassar – Examining the Capability to Integrate into the Finnish Labour Market: Experiences of Forced Migrants
Olena Ocheredko, Dominik Siemon – From Efficiency to Empathy: Managing Refugee Integration Through Trauma-Informed Information Systems
Sandra Nasser El-Dine – Arabitaustaisten äitien ääniä Helsingistä: arki, koulutus ja kotiutuminen
Room: F3006
Yorgos Konstantinou – HABIBING/ 3 days at Habibi.Works
Liina Mustonen – Cartographies of resistance in Berlin