Join the Migration Institute of Finland’s research seminar!
Time: 13.0ct. at 13:00 – 14:30
Place: Hybrid – Migration Institute of Finland, Hämeenkatu 13, Turku (lecture room) / on-line
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13:00 – 13:45
Karis Shearer, PhD, Visiting Researcher, Migration Institute of Finland / Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies The University of British Colombia, CA, Associate Professor
Kalevan Naiset: Reading Epic Poetry in Finnish Migrant-Settler Communities in Thunder Bay
The presentation introduces the project that asks how Finnish-Canadian women used reading, recitation, and collective listening practices—particularly those involving the Kalevala—to sustain cultural memory, negotiate gender roles, and articulate belonging amid shifting ideas about citizenship, nationalism, and multiculturalism in Canada.
13:45 – 14:30
Dr. Turkan Firinci Orman, Visiting Researcher, Migration Institute of Finland, Docent of Sociology
Place Attachment without Social Membership: Transnational Youth Mobility and Situated Belonging in a Sustainable City
The presentation builds on recent fieldwork in Tampere, conducted as part of multi-country research project on youth environmental citizenship. Preliminary findings on how young people with transnational mobility trajectories experience place and urban belonging.
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Mika Raunio & Nadja Nordling, MIF