Structural inequalities related to different categories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and ability persist in different contexts and cut across borders. Often, the operating mechanisms of these inequalities are strikingly similar despite the differences in geographical contexts. Decolonial perspectives in research on inequalities are increasingly making visible how equality before law is not a guarantee to reduce structural inequalities in society. The hour of the need is to reflect beyond the notion of exceptionalism in researching inequalities and instead focus on ways to understand these inequalities from the lens of commonality. This seminar brings together scholars in Finland working on structural inequalities related to whiteness, antiracist pedagogy, linguistic vulnerability, labor market discrimination, global development, religion and caste in conversation with Professor Surinder Jodhka.
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10.00-10.10 Opening of the event: Mandira Halder (University of Helsinki) & Tiina Seppälä (University of Helsinki)
Session 1 Chair: Mandira Halder
10.10-10.40 Presentation 1: Maija Jones (University of Helsinki): “(Re)configuring antiracism pedagogy in Finland: Identifying challenges that maintain white superiority”
10.40-11.10 Presentation 2: Samina Tasnim (University of Tampere): “Racism and Islamophobia in Finnish schools. Perspective of Pakistani children and their parents”
11.10-11.40 Presentation 3: Quivine Ndomo (University of Jyväskylä): Highly educated immigrants in Finland as working underclass.
11.40-12.40 Lunch break
Session 2 Chair: Tiina Seppälä
12.40-13.10 Presentation 4: Daria Krivonos (University of Helsinki): “How ‘labour migrants’ become deserving refugees’ and back again: Europeanisation and racial capitalism amidst the war in Ukraine
13.10-13.40 Presentation 5: Eveliina Heino (University of Helsinki): Accessibility of health and social services to Russian-speaking mothers with disabled children
14.10-14.40 Presentation 6: Eija Ranta (University of Helsinki): “Social justice and anti-racism activism in Latin America”
14.40-15.00 Coffee break
Concluding Session Chair: Johanna Rainio-Niemi (University of Helsinki) (tbc)
15.00-15.30 Professor Surinder S. Jodhka (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Connecting Global North and South