Activities
Presentations
Pihla Siim (20.3.2025) Erineva kodakondsusega paarid kuuluvuse piire kompamas. 19th Folklorists' Winter Conference: Parallel Worlds and Parallel Traditions, 20.-21.3.2025. Kadrina manor, Estonia.
Pihla Siim (20.11.2024) Challenges Faced by Mixed-Citizenship Couples: Navigating Understandings of Genuine Relationships and the Burden of Proof. Guest talk at the joint Seminar with the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and the SPAIS Migration Group, University of Bristol.
Pihla Siim (7.11.2024) Challenges Faced by Mixed-Citizenship Couples: Navigating Understandings of Genuine Relationships and the Burden of Proof. ETMU-days, 7.-8.11.2024. University of Tampere.
Eveliina Lyytinen (15.8.2024) Feminist geolegal analysis of mixed-citizens couples’ narratives of deportability, body and home. 22nd Nordic Migration Research Conference at the University of Bergen 14.-16.8.2024.
Pihla Siim & Eveliina Lyytinen (4.7.2024) Intimacy and spatiality intertwined: Examining the coping strategies of mixed-citizenship couples. Annual IMISCOE Conference 2024 – Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn, 2.-5.7.2024. Lisbon.
Eveliina Lyytinen (4.7.2024) Finnish women’s ‘experiential migrantisation’ in the face of their asylum-seeking spouse’s deportability. Annual IMISCOE Conference 2024 – Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn, 2.-5.7.2024. Lisbon.
Saara Pellander & Sami Torssonen (17.6.2024) Migrantisation, trust and the state. Exploring experiences of a failing system. Migrantisation Work-in-Progress Workshop, online. Organised by the Brexit Couples and INDEFI research project teams, with Bridget Anderson (Migration Mobilities Bristol) and Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham).
Eveliina Lyytinen (17.6.2024) ”I have completely exhausted myself during this journey” – Finnish women’s ‘experiential migrantisation’ in the face of their asylum-seeking spouse’s deportability. Migrantisation Work-in-Progress Workshop, online. Organised by the Brexit Couples and INDEFI research project teams, with Bridget Anderson (Migration Mobilities Bristol) and Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham).
Pihla Siim (13.6.2024) Discourses of Difference and Sameness: Estonian Return Migrants Reflecting on (non)Belonging. Guest talk. Lecture Series "(Changing) Images, Narratives and Perspectives – 20 Years of EU Enlargement to the East/Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region". University of Greifswald.
Pihla Siim (3.6.2024) Yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroja: ulkomailla asuvien virolaisten ajatuksia ja kokemuksia paluusta. Suomen ja Viron väliseen liikkuvuuteen keskittyvä juhlaseminaari Siirtolaisuusinstituutissa.
Eveliina Lyytinen (21.5.2024) Suomen turvapaikkapolitiikka. SOSTE:n kansainvälisen sosiaalipolitiikan iltapäivä. Helsinki & online.
Eveliina Lyytinen (6.12.2023) ”I have completely exhausted myself during this journey” – Finnish women’s ‘experiential migrantisation’ in the face of their asylum-seeking spouse’s deportability. Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) guest talk, University of East London.
Pihla Siim & Eveliina Lyytinen (30.11.2023) Mixed-citizen families’ strategies of survival and resistance under the threat of deportation. ETMU days, 29.11.–1.12.2023. University of Jyväskylä.
Eveliina Lyytinen (17.11.2023) “[Deportation] is such a shocking word that I do not even want to say it aloud!” – Finnish citizens’ ‘experiential migratisation’ in the face of their foreign spouse’s deportability. Open seminar on Deportability and the family. Migration Institute of Finland.
Pihla Siim & Eveliina Lyytinen (17.11.2023) “Just the two of us against the Finnish system”. Mixed-citizen families’ strategies of survival and resistance under the threat of deportation. Open seminar on Deportability and the family. Migration Institute of Finland.
Saara Pellander & Jaana Palander (17.11.2023) Intimate geographies of bordering: Deportability and its effects on Finnish citizens with foreign spouses and their extended families. Open seminar on Deportability and the family. Migration Institute of Finland.
Eveliina Lyytinen, Saara Pellander & Pihla Siim (3.7.2023) Intimate geographies of bordering: Deportability and its effects on citizens’ right to love and family life. 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 3.–6.7.2023. Warsaw & online.
Eveliina Lyytinen & Saara Pellander (10.11.2022) Rajallistamisen intiimi maantiede: Karkotettavuus ja sen vaikutukset ylirajaisissa parisuhteissa eläviin suomalaisiin sekä heidän lähipiiriinsä. Perhetutkimuksen päivät 10. –11.11.2022. Turun yliopisto.
Eveliina Lyytinen, Jaana Palander & Saara Pellander (3.11.2022) Deportability and its effects on Finnish citizens with foreign spouses and their extended families. Geographies of Displacement/Geography Days, Tampere 3.-4.11.2022.
Eveliina Lyytinen, Jaana Palander & Saara Pellander (17.8.2022) Intimate geographies of bordering: Deportability and its effects on Finnish citizens with foreign spouses and their extended families. The 21st Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference. University of Copenhagen, 17.-19.8.2022.
Publications
Erna Bodström & Eveliina Lyytinen (25.3.2024) Siirtolaisuusinstituutin lausunto sisäministeriölle luonnoksesta hallituksen esitykseksi laiksi väliaikaisista toimenpiteistä välineellistetyn maahantulon torjumiseksi (ns. käännytyslaki, SVN/5349/2024).
Erna Bodström, Eveliina Lyytinen & Marja Tiilikainen (12.3.2024) Siirtolaisuusinstituutin lausunto sisäministeriölle luonnoksesta hallituksen esitykseksi ulkomaalaislain muuttamiseksi (ns. pakolaisaseman lyhentäminen ja lakkauttaminen, VN/24058/2023).
Erna Bodström, Eveliina Lyytinen & Marja Tiilikainen (23.2.2024) Siirtolaisuusinstituutin lausunto sisäministeriölle luonnoksesta hallituksen esitykseksi ulkomaalaislain muuttamisesta ja laiksi kansainvälistä suojelua hakevan vastaanotosta sekä ihmiskaupan uhrin tunnistamisesta ja auttamisesta annetun lain muuttamisesta (ns. rajamenettely, VN/22620/2023).
Erna Bodström, Linda Bäckman, Eveliina Lyytinen & Marja Tiilikainen (19.2.2024) Siirtolaisuusinstituutin lausunto sisäministeriölle luonnoksesta hallituksen esitykseksi ulkomaalaislain sekä kolmansien maiden kansalaisten maahantulon ja oleskelun edellytyksistä tutkimuksen, opiskelun, työharjoittelun ja vapaaehtoistoiminnan perusteella annetun lain 2 §:n muuttamisesta (VN/24628/2023).
Events
Session: Immigration control and the intimate sphere (7.-8.11.2024). Conveners: Jaana Palander & Pihla Siim. ETMU days, 7.-8.11.2024. University of Tampere.
Session: Bordering the intimate sphere: precarious legal status families in European migration regimes (4.7.2024). Chairs: Laura Cleton & Saara Pellander. Annual IMISCOE Conference 2024 – Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn, 2.-5.7.2024. Lisbon.
Migrantisation Work-in-Progress Workshop (17.6.2024, online). Organised by the Brexit Couples and INDEFI research project teams, with Bridget Anderson (Migration Mobilities Bristol) and Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham).
Lecture on critical integration research by Marit Aure (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway), and book launch of Migration and Families in East and North Europe. Translocal Lifelines (27.2.2024). Migration Institute of Finland (Turku) and online.
Workshop: Deportations and deportability (30.11.2023). Conveners: Päivi Pirkkalainen & Saara Pellander. ETMU days, 29.11.–1.12.2023. University of Jyväskylä.
Open seminar on Deportability and the family (17.11.2023) Migration Institute of Finland (Turku) and online.