Mobile Futures and Endings projects (2025–2027)
The overall aim of this study is to understand older persons’ experiences of integration, trust and end of life. The aim is also to explore place-bound social relations and the development of social and institutional (mis)trust of older people. This project is interested in examining how the older persons understand ageing from their cultural perspectives. Further, it examines their experiences of two-way integration, and the benefits and challenges of belonging in a new country at older age. This study also covers issue of death and grief in the context of living in exile.
The research questions are following:
1) How older persons perceive ageing and their role in intergenerational processes of integration?
2) How is social and institutional trust and mistrust related to older persons’ sense of belonging?
3) How older persons who have experienced refugeehood perceive their or their close one’s end of life and grief in exile?
This research is part of two different larger projects:
1) Mobile Futures – Diversity, Trust, and Two-way integration
Mobile Futures is an interdisciplinary, action-oriented research project that strives to promote a fair and inclusive society through focusing on integration as a trust-based, two-way process. This research project is funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Academy of Finland. The research is conducted by the Migration Institute of Finland. This research with older persons is connected to the work package titled “Trust in Everyday Encounters”. For more information: https://mobilefutures.fi/
2) Endings – Refuge, Time, and Space
Endings project examines how, when, and where forced migration and refugeehood may come to an end. This research-art project is funded by the Kone Foundation. The project is conducted by the Migration Institute of Finland. This research with older persons is linked to the work package called “End of life in refuge”. For more information: https://siirtolaisuusinstituutti.fi/en/research/research-projects/endings-refuge-time-and-space/
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