Researchers

The following researchers are a part of the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism.
Suvi Keskinen

Professor
Post-/de-colonial feminism, Racism and whiteness, Nationalism and right-wing populism, Activism by racialized minorities, Ethnic and racial profiling, Migrant/minority families.

Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji

Postdoctoral Researcher
Antiracism, Education, Race and racism, Interculturalism/multiculturalism.

Ali Ali

Postdoctoral Researcher
Queer theory, Relations of kinship and political alliances, Relational and situational aspects in sociopolitical change and recovery

Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho

Postdoctoral Researcher

Racism, racialization, antiracism, integration, education, migrants and refugees

James Anyan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Stratification in higher education, immigrant integration, labour migration, social exclusion

Gwenaëlle Bauvois

University Researcher
Extreme narratives, Right-wing populism, Conspiracies, Post-truth politics

Nora Fabritius

Doctoral Researcher

Border studies, border control, sociology of law, minority rights

I-An Gao (Wasiq Silan)

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Indigenous peoples and self-determination, Aging, Indigenous/decolonizing methodologies, Care, Long-term care policies.

Emma Grillo Kajava

Doctoral researcher

Racism and anti-racism; political solidarities; social class; racial capitalism; temporality

 

Markus Himanen

Doctoral Researcher

Ethnic profiling, Citizenship and borders, Immigration policy, Asylum seekers and refugees, Undocumented migrants.

Koko Hubara

Doctoral Researcher
Daughtering and mothering, critical mixed-race studies, life-writing, decolonization of knowledge, activism, creative writing, mad studies.

Elina Ikävalko

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mad/feminist Studies, Antiracism, Ableism, Psychiatrization

Daria Krivonos

Researcher 

Postsocialism, racialisation, migration, whiteness, labour.

Tuuli Kurki

Researcher
Racism, Antiracism, Whiteness, Intersectionality, Education, Mental Health

 

Maïmouna Matikainen-Soreau

Academy Research Fellow

Racialization, Whiteness, Decoloniality, Intersectionality, Cultural Studies

Olivia Maury

University Lecturer in Sociology 

Autonomy of migration, border regimes, digital labour platforms, labour power, racial capitalism.

 

Liina Mustonen

Postdoctoral researcher
Gender theory, Mobility and cosmopolitanism, the Middle East, Knowledge production and discourses of othering.

Aino Nevalainen

Doctoral Researcher
Race and racism, Antiracism, Media, Anti-antiracism, Anti-woke discourse

Minou Norouzi

Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher

Interdisciplinary documentary practice, ethics of representation, migrant and diasporic screen cultures, feminist decolonial studies, Middle East/Southwest Asia and North Africa (MENA/SWANA)

Niko Pyrhönen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nationalism, Ethnic relations, Migration, Hybrid Media Space, Citizenship.

Tobias Pötzsch

University Lecturer
Ethnic Relations, Anti-oppressive social work, Inclusion/Integration, Migration and Minorities, Anti-Racism.

Anni Reuter

Researcher

Integration and empowerment; organized sports and newcomers; history of deportations and diaspora; Ingrian Finns and ethnic minorities

Nelli Ruotsalainen

Doctoral Researcher

Feminist theories, activism, anti-racism, whiteness, creative methodologies

Amiirah Salleh-Hoddin

Doctoral Researcher

Anti-Racism, Equality data, Identity and belonging, Intersectionality, Decolonising knowledge

Maryna Smahina

Doctoral Researcher 
Migration, nationalism, transnationalism, identity and belonging, labor, forced migration with a focus on Ukrainian migrants.

Olga Tkach

Researcher

Migrations, mobility inequality, feminist and migration studies of home, housing and neighbour relations, conviviality

Mari Toivanen

Postdoctoral Researcher 
Diasporas and transnationalism, Second generation, Diaspora politics, Identity and belonging, Kurdish.

Affiliated researchers

Rolle Alho

Ali Ali

Alemanji Aminkeng Atabong

Erna Bodström

Karin Creutz

Linda Haapajärvi

Driss Habti

Peter Holley

Zeinab Karimi

Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Saara Koikkalainen

Aino Korvensyrjä

Camilla Nordberg

Cristian Norocel

Shadia Rask

Sanna Saksela-Bergholm

Valter Sandell

Reiko Shindo

Gavan Titley

Marjukka Weide