Affiliated researchers

The following affiliated researchers are a part of the research community at CEREN.
Alemanji Aminkeng Atabong

Senior University Lecturer
Antiracism, Education, Race and racism, Interculturalism/multiculturalism.

 

Kolar Aparna

Postdoctoral Researcher
Situated knowledges on borders, displacement and mobilities, Colonialism, Relational geographies

Erna Bodström

Postdoctoral Researcher

International migration, Asylum seekers and refugees, Citizenship and borders, Administrative documents, Texts and images.

 

Karin Creutz

Doctoral Researcher

Nationalism, ethnicity, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia; Far-right politics, anti-Muslim fringe, populism and radicalisation; Immigration, integration and transnationalism; Power, Post-Colonialism and Border dynamics.

Linda Haapajärvi

Postdoctoral researcher

Citizenship, death, inequality, public policy, transnationalism, urban sociology.

Driss Habti

Postdoctoral researcher

Migration and ethnic relations, highly skilled migration, mobilities, sociology of professionals, cultural diversity.

Peter Holley

Doctoral Researcher

International migration, Identity and belonging, Ethnicity, 'race' and nationhood, Citizenship and multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism.

Zeinab Karimi

Postdoctoral Researcher
International migration, Racialization of Islam, Citizenship, Transnational family, Intersectionality, Religion

Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Postdoctoral Researcher

History and Memory, Embodied Realism, Ethnic Relations, Metaphor Analysis, Peace Education.

Saara Koikkalainen

University Researcher
Highly skilled migration, Intra-European mobility, Migration decision-making, EU, Expatriates in London

Aino Korvensyrjä

Postdoctoral Researcher
Deportation policy, citizenship and borders, racism and the border regime, asylum, criminalisation of migration, migration justice movements.

Faith Mkwesha

Postdoctoral researcher
African feminism, Decolonial, Diversity, Anti-racism, Disobedient knowledge

Cristian Norocel

University Lecturer
Intersectionality, Right-wing populism, Political sociology, Sociology of gender, Europe.

Shadia Rask

Postdoctoral researcher

Discrimination and health inequities, Racism as a social determinant of health.

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Anna-Leena Riitaoja

University Lecturer
Immigrant representations, Welfare services, Sociology of knowledge, Social work, Education.

Sanna Saksela-Bergholm

Postdoctoral Researcher

Inclusion/Integration, Transnationalism, Civil society, Labour migration, Informal social protection

Valter Sandell

Doctoral Researcher
Discretionary power, social security, precarization, Nordic welfare states.

Reiko Shindo

University Lecturer
Security and the regulation of borders, solidarity activism and belonging, and the politics of aesthetics and sense.

Gavan Titley

Senior Lecturer

Europe, digital media and public formations, media theory as social theory, racism and transnational discourse.

Marjukka Weide

Doctoral Researcher
Participation policy, Ethnic relations, Citizenship, Interpretive policy analysis.