Kathleen Valtonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Valtonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Valtonen |
| SIGNATURE | VALTONEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social Work and Integration in Immigrant Communities
There has been a marked rise in global migration with many former countries of emigration becoming immigration destinations. As a result of this, social workers increasingly encounter immigrant clients and are called upon to work in their communities. At the same time, in the field of research, theories, conceptual frames, perspectives and discourse have materialized and evolved to make sense of contemporary events. Social work professionals, res…
Social Work and Migration
Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research in migration which is not widely available to social workers or included in social work literature, she offers readers an opportunity to explore the ca…
Paradoxes of Social Capital
Social work and migration
Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse
Journal Article Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse Get access Kathleen Valtonen, Kathleen Valtonen Correspondence to Kathleen Valtonen, Social Work Unit, Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michele Sogren, Michele Sogren Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
From the Margin to the Mainstream
This article explores settlement processes and the difficulties experienced by refugee individuals and communities in Finland. Focus is also directed to the societal and institutional context of settlement, and how the formal status granted to refugees translates into actual participatory activity and linkages in the society. The study is based on primary data from two qualitative studies, conducted in 1993–1994 and 1997–1998, on settlement and i…
The ethnic neighbourhood
Immigrant integration in the welfare state
This article examines social work with immigrants in the welfare state context. The work is informed by two previous studies on immigrant and refugee integration in Finland and Canada. Taking a holistic perspective on resettlement, social work can be seen as a crucial support and bridging service through transition. Tasks involve active fostering of linkage to promote immigrant participation in the wider society, a mandate that goes beyond that o…
Job-seeking strategies in Trinidad and Tobago
National levels of unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago have remained consistently high since the 1980s, because of the economic recession, subsequent structural adjustment arrangements and the diminution of traditional labourintensive activities such as estate agriculture. Groups which had been dependent upon casual employment that was available in pre-recession times have been experiencing chronic unemployment. Combining extremely irregular casu…
Middle East and Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada and Finland
In this article a case study of resettling Middle East and South Asian refugees in the Metropolitan Toronto area is presented and juxtaposed with a parallel study conducted in Finland. The main strategies for labour market participation in Canada were education, "volunteering" and networking activity. The agency principle was pronounced. Interethnic accord is evident at individual level, while at the group level of collaboration it is more elusiv…
The societal participation of Vietnamese refugees
This qualitative multiple case study looks at the integration of Vietnamese refugee communities in Finland and Canada, using societal participation as an analytic framework. In both sites, the high priority on economic aspects of participation is indicated by the self‐reported resettlement goals variably expressed as financial stability’, ‘a stable livelihood’, ‘a good job’, ‘a really good job’. These goals should be seen in the light of the afte…
Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland
Journal Article Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland: The Elusiveness of Integration Get access KATHLEEN VALTONEN KATHLEEN VALTONEN Department of Social Policy. University of Turku Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/11.1.38 Published: 01 January 1998 Article history Received: 01 July 1996 Revision rece…
Bread and Tea
This study examines immigrant integration in the low socioeconomic stratum in Trinidad. Integration is operationalized as participation in overlapping societal spheres. The study also focuses on corollary aspects of access and goals. While several factors facilitated participation in the social sphere, labor market participation was inhibited by conditions of open unemployment and underemployment. These exigencies had elicited strategies of subsi…
Bread and Tea
Kathleen Valtonen, Bread and Tea: A Study of the Integration of Low-Income Immigrants from Other Caribbean Territories into Trinidad, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 995-1019
East Meets North
This paper examines the integration process of the Vietnamese community in Finland by studying their societal participation in the sociocultural, economic and civil/political spheres. The extended family structure continues to have relevance in resettlement as a matrix that underlies role relationships. The ties of responsibility and obligation in the original family have not diminished with separation, but lead to the establishment of a double s…
The Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugees in Finland
This study examines the life conditions of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Turku in order to understand the nature and pattern of their social adaptation. The research was qualitative and based on in-depth interviews of 57 adults. The heterogeneous refugee group comprises highly cohesive sub-groups exhibiting interaction characteristics very similar to extended family interaction: intensity of contacts with responsibility-type roles, as well as …
Global Apartheid
Global Apartheid examines the impact of postindustrialism, postmodernism, and globalization on international migration, racial conflict, and ethnic nationalism. Refugees are a growing element in the population movements that result from ethnic conflicts, civil wars, and environmental disasters. The economically privileged seek to protect their advantage, while the deprived fight for their share. 'Global apartheid' is how Richmond describes some h…
From the Margin to the Mainstream
This article explores settlement processes and the difficulties experienced by refugee individuals and communities in Finland. Focus is also directed to the societal and institutional context of settlement, and how the formal status granted to refugees translates into actual participatory activity and linkages in the society. The study is based on primary data from two qualitative studies, conducted in 1993–1994 and 1997–1998, on settlement and i…
Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland
Journal Article Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland: The Elusiveness of Integration Get access KATHLEEN VALTONEN KATHLEEN VALTONEN Department of Social Policy. University of Turku Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/11.1.38 Published: 01 January 1998 Article history Received: 01 July 1996 Revision rece…
The societal participation of Vietnamese refugees
This qualitative multiple case study looks at the integration of Vietnamese refugee communities in Finland and Canada, using societal participation as an analytic framework. In both sites, the high priority on economic aspects of participation is indicated by the self‐reported resettlement goals variably expressed as financial stability’, ‘a stable livelihood’, ‘a good job’, ‘a really good job’. These goals should be seen in the light of the afte…
The Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugees in Finland
This study examines the life conditions of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Turku in order to understand the nature and pattern of their social adaptation. The research was qualitative and based on in-depth interviews of 57 adults. The heterogeneous refugee group comprises highly cohesive sub-groups exhibiting interaction characteristics very similar to extended family interaction: intensity of contacts with responsibility-type roles, as well as …
Global Apartheid
Global Apartheid examines the impact of postindustrialism, postmodernism, and globalization on international migration, racial conflict, and ethnic nationalism. Refugees are a growing element in the population movements that result from ethnic conflicts, civil wars, and environmental disasters. The economically privileged seek to protect their advantage, while the deprived fight for their share. 'Global apartheid' is how Richmond describes some h…
Immigrant integration in the welfare state
This article examines social work with immigrants in the welfare state context. The work is informed by two previous studies on immigrant and refugee integration in Finland and Canada. Taking a holistic perspective on resettlement, social work can be seen as a crucial support and bridging service through transition. Tasks involve active fostering of linkage to promote immigrant participation in the wider society, a mandate that goes beyond that o…
The ethnic neighbourhood
Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse
Journal Article Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse Get access Kathleen Valtonen, Kathleen Valtonen Correspondence to Kathleen Valtonen, Social Work Unit, Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michele Sogren, Michele Sogren Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugees in Finland
This study examines the life conditions of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Turku in order to understand the nature and pattern of their social adaptation. The research was qualitative and based on in-depth interviews of 57 adults. The heterogeneous refugee group comprises highly cohesive sub-groups exhibiting interaction characteristics very similar to extended family interaction: intensity of contacts with responsibility-type roles, as well as …
Global Apartheid
Global Apartheid examines the impact of postindustrialism, postmodernism, and globalization on international migration, racial conflict, and ethnic nationalism. Refugees are a growing element in the population movements that result from ethnic conflicts, civil wars, and environmental disasters. The economically privileged seek to protect their advantage, while the deprived fight for their share. 'Global apartheid' is how Richmond describes some h…
Bread and Tea
This study examines immigrant integration in the low socioeconomic stratum in Trinidad. Integration is operationalized as participation in overlapping societal spheres. The study also focuses on corollary aspects of access and goals. While several factors facilitated participation in the social sphere, labor market participation was inhibited by conditions of open unemployment and underemployment. These exigencies had elicited strategies of subsi…
Bread and Tea
Kathleen Valtonen, Bread and Tea: A Study of the Integration of Low-Income Immigrants from Other Caribbean Territories into Trinidad, The International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 995-1019
East Meets North
This paper examines the integration process of the Vietnamese community in Finland by studying their societal participation in the sociocultural, economic and civil/political spheres. The extended family structure continues to have relevance in resettlement as a matrix that underlies role relationships. The ties of responsibility and obligation in the original family have not diminished with separation, but lead to the establishment of a double s…
Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland
Journal Article Resettlement of Middle Eastern Refugees in Finland: The Elusiveness of Integration Get access KATHLEEN VALTONEN KATHLEEN VALTONEN Department of Social Policy. University of Turku Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/11.1.38 Published: 01 January 1998 Article history Received: 01 July 1996 Revision rece…
Middle East and Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada and Finland
In this article a case study of resettling Middle East and South Asian refugees in the Metropolitan Toronto area is presented and juxtaposed with a parallel study conducted in Finland. The main strategies for labour market participation in Canada were education, "volunteering" and networking activity. The agency principle was pronounced. Interethnic accord is evident at individual level, while at the group level of collaboration it is more elusiv…
The societal participation of Vietnamese refugees
This qualitative multiple case study looks at the integration of Vietnamese refugee communities in Finland and Canada, using societal participation as an analytic framework. In both sites, the high priority on economic aspects of participation is indicated by the self‐reported resettlement goals variably expressed as financial stability’, ‘a stable livelihood’, ‘a good job’, ‘a really good job’. These goals should be seen in the light of the afte…
Immigrant integration in the welfare state
This article examines social work with immigrants in the welfare state context. The work is informed by two previous studies on immigrant and refugee integration in Finland and Canada. Taking a holistic perspective on resettlement, social work can be seen as a crucial support and bridging service through transition. Tasks involve active fostering of linkage to promote immigrant participation in the wider society, a mandate that goes beyond that o…
Job-seeking strategies in Trinidad and Tobago
National levels of unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago have remained consistently high since the 1980s, because of the economic recession, subsequent structural adjustment arrangements and the diminution of traditional labourintensive activities such as estate agriculture. Groups which had been dependent upon casual employment that was available in pre-recession times have been experiencing chronic unemployment. Combining extremely irregular casu…
The ethnic neighbourhood
From the Margin to the Mainstream
This article explores settlement processes and the difficulties experienced by refugee individuals and communities in Finland. Focus is also directed to the societal and institutional context of settlement, and how the formal status granted to refugees translates into actual participatory activity and linkages in the society. The study is based on primary data from two qualitative studies, conducted in 1993–1994 and 1997–1998, on settlement and i…
Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse
Journal Article Coping Styles in Persons Recovering from Substance Abuse Get access Kathleen Valtonen, Kathleen Valtonen Correspondence to Kathleen Valtonen, Social Work Unit, Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michele Sogren, Michele Sogren Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Social work and migration
Paradoxes of Social Capital
Social Work and Integration in Immigrant Communities
There has been a marked rise in global migration with many former countries of emigration becoming immigration destinations. As a result of this, social workers increasingly encounter immigrant clients and are called upon to work in their communities. At the same time, in the field of research, theories, conceptual frames, perspectives and discourse have materialized and evolved to make sense of contemporary events. Social work professionals, res…
Social Work and Migration
Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research in migration which is not widely available to social workers or included in social work literature, she offers readers an opportunity to explore the ca…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works)