A5021840556- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Research in Social Sciences
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Education Systems and Policy
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Disability Education and Employment
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Family Support in Illness
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Regional Development and Policy
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
University of Helsinki
2011-2025
Students in Finland are obliged to apply for upper secondary education during their 9th year. The main divisions occur between general (academically oriented) and vocational education, within female male dominated sectors. In this article we discuss the tension these options explore young people's hopes, choices, transitions. These related expectations imbedded policies practices. We present a contextualized cross-cultural analysis which interviews ethnographic data from different settings...
This essay is about the ethos of vulnerability, young people, and policies practices related to youth support systems in Finland. Our aim scrutinize alliance vulnerability neoliberal rationality as well its outcomes terms people from various backgrounds. In end, we take our analysis further see how this associated with education it works by de-politicising, narrowing, individualizing toward a new kind highly tailored precision governance.
Today, education is massively affected by marketisation and the drastic demands of global economy. Integration training for immigrants has fallen prey to that; are employed serve market needs, which been attributed creation “integration as business”. In article, authors examine how integration becomes organised within current market-oriented policies practices; kinds discourses represented utilised through one an “integrated immigrant” and; what consequences this orientation on subjects...
This article explores a new kind of political ethos in education: the alliance projectisation and precarisation their individual-based implementation. It is critique project based activities working with ‘at risk’ groups Finland, specifically preparation immigrants those criminal backgrounds, for life precarity. The projects discussed refer to publicly funded, short-term educational programmes that operate outside or on edge formal education system. authors' argument while have become an...
This paper explores the educational choice-making of students with special needs in context Finnish pre-vocational training and one its programmes, ‘Preparatory Rehabilitative Instruction Guidance for Disabled Students’. The authors enquire into kinds choices available preparatory programme, how student counselling meets their hopes future plans. analysis draws on an ethnographic study education post-compulsory Finland. It shows that need to reflect plans within institutional diagnostic...
The ethos of vulnerability has come to play an increasingly central role in shaping cross-sectoral transition policies and practices related young people outside education working life. Yet the wider effects this are still rarely analysed. In article, we draw our data from five separate studies. set includes policy documents, news reports, programme guidelines as well interview ethnographic data. This article shows what kinds can have on
The Nordic Journal of Migration Research is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open access international journal that cost free for authors and readers alike. publishes theoretical empirical analyses migratory processes, dealing with themes such as nationalism transnationalism, ethnic relations racism, border practices belonging. gives priority to issues, but articles also from other geographical contexts.Back content now available in our issue archive.
Finland’s integration policy is praised for its inclusivity and guaranteeing equal opportunities. This paper examines how processes work within such an ideal image. Building on theoretical critical discussions of racialisation, we approach as a mechanism racialisation discuss the consequences racialised practices Arabic-speaking refugees immigrants living in Finland. We move beyond established high unemployment rates among provide examination reasons their unemployment. argue that...
In this article, we examine the lived experiences of young people who receive student support services through lenses coloniality and intersectionality. Our focus is on within Finnish education system, encompassing for schoolwork learning, mental health well-being. Drawing two research projects – a multi-sited ethnographic study an ethnography-based life-historical shed light four as they navigate school its system. We apply theoretical concepts intersectionality to empirically analyse...
Aikuiskasvatuksen tutkimusmenetelmiä: asiantuntijat esittelevät aikuiskasvatustieteen tutkimusmenetelmiä ja näkökulmia tutkimukseen.