Director
Saara Pellander
Director +358 40 127 1070 saara.pellander@migrationinstitute.fi
D. Soc. Sc., Associate professor
Support desk
Kirsi Sainio
Administrative director +358 40 668 5904 kirsi.sainio@migrationinstitute.fi
- Secretary of the Board of Directors and Board of Administration
- Financial and human resources management
- Coordination of publication production
- Subeditor and layout of the Siirtolaisuus-Migration quarterly
- Miscellaneous graphic works (layout and image processing of publications, invitations, brochures, etc.)
Mika Orjala
Research Funding Specialist +358 40 120 4409 mika.orjala@migrationinstitute.fi
MSc
Support in applying research funding
Support in implementation and reporting of projects
Fundraising for the Migration Institute of Finland
Krista Mielismäki-Kettunen
Management assistant +358 40 724 9802 krista.mielismaki@migrationinstitute.fi
BBA
- Financial administration
- IT support
- Office tasks
Jarno Heinilä
Archivist +358 40 631 3042 jarno.heinila@migrationinstitute.fi
BA
- Reception, acquisition and management of and access to archival materials
- Information service: Migration Collections, Emigrant register
- Tasks related to the management of the organization’s archive
Katri Kanervo
Information specialist +358 40 130 4681 katri.kanervo@migrationinstitute.fi
MA
- Information services
- Library: Information search, collection management, acquisition, cataloguing, customer service, inter-library loans
- Classification and storage of electronic data and traditional written information material
- Communications: Daily communications, press releases, newsletters, brochures, social media, website of the Migration Institute of Finland, media monitoring
- Tasks related to event production
- Tasks related to publication production
Research
Marja Tiilikainen
Senior Research Fellow, Temporary Research Director +358 40 684 3814 marja.tiilikainen@migrationinstitute.fi
PhD, Associate professor
- Cross-border immigrant families and family practices
- Illness and healing as cultural phenomena
- Religious everyday life
- Family separation and everyday security
- Somali diaspora
Tomas Hanell
Senior Research Fellow +358 40 120 4573; +358 45 651 9120 tomas.hanell@migrationinstitute.fi
D.Sc (Tech)
- Domestic migration
- Regional development
- Geography of quality of life
- Statistical indicators and the politics of measurement
Markku Mattila
Senior Research Fellow +358 44 259 2447 markku.mattila@migrationinstitute.fi
PhD, Associate professor
- Population policy
- Minorities
- Migration
- Social history
- History of science and ideas
Magnus Enlund
Project manager +358 44 559 2447 magnus.enlund@migrationinstitute.fi
MA, doctoral student
- Finland-Swedish migration
Pekka Kettunen
Senior Research Fellow pekka.kettunen@migrationinstitute.fi
D. Soc. Sc., Associate professor
- Organisation
- Implementation and evaluation
- Comparative study
- Municipal research
- Integration
Eveliina Lyytinen
Senior Research Fellow +358 400 219 184 eveliina.lyytinen@migrationinstitute.fi
DPhil, Associate professor
- Forced migration
- Exile
- Deportation of asylum seekers
- Qualitative research methods
- Research ethics
- Urban exile
Mika Raunio
Research Fellow +358 44 925 5042 mika.raunio@migrationinstitute.fi
LicSc (Admin)
- Migration and regional development
- International migration of talent
- Regional attraction
- Emerging economies
Toni Ahvenainen
Junior Research Fellow +358 40 164 6762 toni.ahvenainen@migrationinstitute.fi
MSSc
- Urbanisation
- Regional development
- Project communication
- EN
Fath E Mubeen
Junior Research Fellow +358 40 1204325 fathe.mubeen@migrationinstitute.fi
MA
- Refugee studies
- Unaccompanied young people
- Muslim women and the labour market
- Art-based methods
- Intersectionality
- Gamification
Samira Saramo
Senior Research Fellow samira.saramo@migrationinstitute.fi
Ph.D., Associate Professor
- Migration and Ethnicity in Canadian and United States History
- Place-making and Community-building
- Histories of Experience and Emotion
- Settler Colonialism and Migration
- Transnational Death and Mourning
- Transdisciplinary Methodologies
Pihla Siim
Research Fellow +358 40 129 3539 pihla.siim@migrationinstitute.fi
PhD
Transnational families
Narrative research
Children and mobility
Estonians in Finland
Effects of the threat of deportation on families
Migration and intimate relations
Sari Vanhanen
Research Fellow +358 40 163 4890 sari.vanhanen@migrationinstitute.fi
D. Soc. Sc., adult educator
- Multi-agency collaboration
- Two-way integration
- Professional knowledge and guidance related to ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity
Andrei Kalinitchev
Research Fellow +358 40 7577578 andrei.kalinitchev@utu.fi
PhD
Finns and Finno-Ugrics in history
Ingria’s research
Demographic transformation
Migration to big cities
Study of ethnicity
Elli Heikkilä
Research director emerita +358 40 069 5452 elli.heikkila@migrationinstitute.fi
PhD, Associate professor
- Immigrants in the labour market
- Multicultural marriages
- International students
- Unaccompanied refugee children
- Expatriate Finns
- Internal migration
- Regional development
Also at the moment
Also at the moment
M.Soc.Sc. Marika Saarinen, 15.8.2022-14.2.2023
marika.saarinen@migrationinstitute.fi
Marko Alivuotila 3.10.2022-2.2.2023
marko.alivuotila@migrationinstitute.fi
Research assistant Gabriel Olegario 1.10.2022-31.1.2023
gabriel.olegario@migrationinstitute.fi
Library assistant Pirjo Leppänen 5.9.2022-4.3.2023
pirjo.leppanen@migrationinstitute.fi
PhD Aliakbar Almaspour 12.9.2022-11.9.2023
aliakbar.almaspour@migrationinstitute.fi