Jukka Könönen
Biographic Data
| ID | 227120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jukka Könönen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jukka |
| FAMILY NAME | Könönen |
| SIGNATURE | KÖNÖNEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4843-7741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Support and control: Individualised supervision work during gradual release in Finland
This article examines how supervision work during gradual release from prison in Finland contributes to the individualisation of punishment. Drawing on interviews with prison and community sanction officials, it demonstrates how probation and parole are understood as client-centred practices aimed at supporting social integration, with emphasis on individual planning, trust, and participatory cooperation instead of punitive control. Despite insti…
Fear of small numbers: Assemblages of power in the deportation regime in Finland
This article critically examines the multiscalar, transnational, and interdependent nature of deportations with a focus on complex assemblages of power in shaping deportation outcomes inside and beyond the state. The police are the main actor in the security-oriented deportation regime in Finland, playing a key role in the formation of deportation policies by developing new assemblages with different actors in order to advance deportations. While…
Citizenship
As a result of increased mobility and restrictive immigration policies in Europe, a growing number of people live in conditional and deportable positions with only limited social rights and access to welfare services. In this keyword, we discuss how the conception of national citizenship that underpins immigration and welfare regimes affects the position of non-citizens, with a particular focus on legal status as an instrument of hierarchisation …
Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations
Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable noncitizens with limited rights and protections. Drawing on an analysis of the detention system in Finland, I discuss different functions of immigration detention, focusing on police powers in the governance of mobile populations. In Finland, immigration detention is separated fr…
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice
Notwithstanding claims about the emergence of ‘crimmigration’ systems, immigration law and criminal law entail two different sets of instruments for authorities to control foreign nationals. Drawing on an analysis of removal orders for foreign offenders in Finland, this article demonstrates that significant administrative powers in immigration enforcement are employed largely autonomously from the criminal justice system. Immigration law enables …
Removals of ‘Dangerous’ Mobile EU Citizens: Public Order and Security as a Police Paradigm
Despite being frequently invoked in everyday police work and immigration enforcement to justify coercive measures, public order and security remains an ambiguous legal concept. For EU citizens, the Citizens’ Rights Directive stipulates public order and security grounds to provide a higher threshold against removals than criminal convictions alone. However, the removal grounds for EU citizens were founded on even less than criminal convictions in …
Borders in the future: Policing unwanted mobility through entry bans in the Schengen area
Despite their prominent role in the Return Directive and the constitution of the common European border regime, entry bans and their role in the governance of unwanted mobility remain largely unexamined in migration research. Entry bans accompany removal decisions for non-compliant or criminalised non-citizens, applying by default in the whole Schengen area, excluding EU citizens and legally residing third-country nationals, who receive national …
Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland
This article discusses how administrative practices shape immigration detention policies, addressing both administrative discretion in detention orders and their judicial supervision. Due to vaguely formulated legal criteria and ineffective ex-post judicial supervision, the authorities have considerable discretionary powers in ordering detentions for noncompliant and criminalized noncitizens. Instead of being a measure of last resort, immigration…
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: Methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention
Due to the difficulties in accessing detention facilities, the discussion on immigration detention often draws on limited empirical data with varying degrees of attention paid to the heterogeneity of the detained population and their different stakes in an impending removal. Although a closed institution, various legal and administrative processes related to the enforcement of immigration decisions render immigration detention a relational field.…
Legal geographies of irregular migration: An outlook on immigration detention
In this article, I discuss legal geographies of irregular migration, drawing on a case study on immigration detention in Finland. Based on analysis of detention records, four different types of legal geographies are identified, relating to south–north movement of third‐country nationals inside Europe, criminalised Eastern European EU citizens, irregularity during the asylum process (in particular, related to the Dublin Regulation) and irregularly…
The waiting game: Immigration detention as the waiting room of immigration law
In this article, I examine detained third-country nationals’ negotiations with the immigration system during detention, focusing on how immigration and removal proceedings inform their waiting while in detention. Based on multisited ethnographic research into the immigration detention system in Finland, I argue that waiting in immigration detention needs to be understood as a relational concept that involves different objects and expectations dep…
Becoming a 'Labour Migrant: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment
This article addresses the role of immigration regulations as a frame of reference for migrant employment before obtaining permanent residency status. Drawing on interviews with non-EU migrants and service sector employers in the Helsinki area, the article examines how immigration regulations inform migrant employment and contribute to the hierarchisation of labour markets. The analysis focuses on the legal significance of employment for migrants…
Differential inclusion of non-citizens in a universalistic welfare state
The regulation of legal statuses and differentiation of non-citizens’ rights within the states has become a significant site in the management of migration, yet the actual operations of differential inclusion remain an underexamined issue in the migration research. This article provides an empirically grounded analysis of the differential inclusion of non-citizens and demonstrates the legal hierarchies between non-citizens’ entitlements using Fin…
Border Struggles within the State: Administrative bordering of non-citizens in Finland
Drawing on interviews with non-EU citizens, who arrived as asylum seekers or students in Finland, I examine different aspects of materialisation of borders within the state. This article focuses on non-citizens' negotiations with the immigration bureaucracy, in particular on administrative procedures in residence permit applications. The analysis of non-citizens' immigration trajectories and various border struggles during the conditional period …
Differential inclusion of non-citizens in a universalistic welfare state
The regulation of legal statuses and differentiation of non-citizens’ rights within the states has become a significant site in the management of migration, yet the actual operations of differential inclusion remain an underexamined issue in the migration research. This article provides an empirically grounded analysis of the differential inclusion of non-citizens and demonstrates the legal hierarchies between non-citizens’ entitlements using Fin…
Becoming a 'Labour Migrant: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment
This article addresses the role of immigration regulations as a frame of reference for migrant employment before obtaining permanent residency status. Drawing on interviews with non-EU migrants and service sector employers in the Helsinki area, the article examines how immigration regulations inform migrant employment and contribute to the hierarchisation of labour markets. The analysis focuses on the legal significance of employment for migrants…
Border Struggles within the State: Administrative bordering of non-citizens in Finland
Drawing on interviews with non-EU citizens, who arrived as asylum seekers or students in Finland, I examine different aspects of materialisation of borders within the state. This article focuses on non-citizens' negotiations with the immigration bureaucracy, in particular on administrative procedures in residence permit applications. The analysis of non-citizens' immigration trajectories and various border struggles during the conditional period …
Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland
This article discusses how administrative practices shape immigration detention policies, addressing both administrative discretion in detention orders and their judicial supervision. Due to vaguely formulated legal criteria and ineffective ex-post judicial supervision, the authorities have considerable discretionary powers in ordering detentions for noncompliant and criminalized noncitizens. Instead of being a measure of last resort, immigration…
The waiting game: Immigration detention as the waiting room of immigration law
In this article, I examine detained third-country nationals’ negotiations with the immigration system during detention, focusing on how immigration and removal proceedings inform their waiting while in detention. Based on multisited ethnographic research into the immigration detention system in Finland, I argue that waiting in immigration detention needs to be understood as a relational concept that involves different objects and expectations dep…
Legal geographies of irregular migration: An outlook on immigration detention
In this article, I discuss legal geographies of irregular migration, drawing on a case study on immigration detention in Finland. Based on analysis of detention records, four different types of legal geographies are identified, relating to south–north movement of third‐country nationals inside Europe, criminalised Eastern European EU citizens, irregularity during the asylum process (in particular, related to the Dublin Regulation) and irregularly…
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice
Notwithstanding claims about the emergence of ‘crimmigration’ systems, immigration law and criminal law entail two different sets of instruments for authorities to control foreign nationals. Drawing on an analysis of removal orders for foreign offenders in Finland, this article demonstrates that significant administrative powers in immigration enforcement are employed largely autonomously from the criminal justice system. Immigration law enables …
Removals of ‘Dangerous’ Mobile EU Citizens: Public Order and Security as a Police Paradigm
Despite being frequently invoked in everyday police work and immigration enforcement to justify coercive measures, public order and security remains an ambiguous legal concept. For EU citizens, the Citizens’ Rights Directive stipulates public order and security grounds to provide a higher threshold against removals than criminal convictions alone. However, the removal grounds for EU citizens were founded on even less than criminal convictions in …
Borders in the future: Policing unwanted mobility through entry bans in the Schengen area
Despite their prominent role in the Return Directive and the constitution of the common European border regime, entry bans and their role in the governance of unwanted mobility remain largely unexamined in migration research. Entry bans accompany removal decisions for non-compliant or criminalised non-citizens, applying by default in the whole Schengen area, excluding EU citizens and legally residing third-country nationals, who receive national …
Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations
Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable noncitizens with limited rights and protections. Drawing on an analysis of the detention system in Finland, I discuss different functions of immigration detention, focusing on police powers in the governance of mobile populations. In Finland, immigration detention is separated fr…
Differential inclusion of non-citizens in a universalistic welfare state
The regulation of legal statuses and differentiation of non-citizens’ rights within the states has become a significant site in the management of migration, yet the actual operations of differential inclusion remain an underexamined issue in the migration research. This article provides an empirically grounded analysis of the differential inclusion of non-citizens and demonstrates the legal hierarchies between non-citizens’ entitlements using Fin…
Border Struggles within the State: Administrative bordering of non-citizens in Finland
Drawing on interviews with non-EU citizens, who arrived as asylum seekers or students in Finland, I examine different aspects of materialisation of borders within the state. This article focuses on non-citizens' negotiations with the immigration bureaucracy, in particular on administrative procedures in residence permit applications. The analysis of non-citizens' immigration trajectories and various border struggles during the conditional period …
The waiting game: Immigration detention as the waiting room of immigration law
In this article, I examine detained third-country nationals’ negotiations with the immigration system during detention, focusing on how immigration and removal proceedings inform their waiting while in detention. Based on multisited ethnographic research into the immigration detention system in Finland, I argue that waiting in immigration detention needs to be understood as a relational concept that involves different objects and expectations dep…
Becoming a 'Labour Migrant: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment
This article addresses the role of immigration regulations as a frame of reference for migrant employment before obtaining permanent residency status. Drawing on interviews with non-EU migrants and service sector employers in the Helsinki area, the article examines how immigration regulations inform migrant employment and contribute to the hierarchisation of labour markets. The analysis focuses on the legal significance of employment for migrants…
Legal geographies of irregular migration: An outlook on immigration detention
In this article, I discuss legal geographies of irregular migration, drawing on a case study on immigration detention in Finland. Based on analysis of detention records, four different types of legal geographies are identified, relating to south–north movement of third‐country nationals inside Europe, criminalised Eastern European EU citizens, irregularity during the asylum process (in particular, related to the Dublin Regulation) and irregularly…
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: Methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention
Due to the difficulties in accessing detention facilities, the discussion on immigration detention often draws on limited empirical data with varying degrees of attention paid to the heterogeneity of the detained population and their different stakes in an impending removal. Although a closed institution, various legal and administrative processes related to the enforcement of immigration decisions render immigration detention a relational field.…
Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland
This article discusses how administrative practices shape immigration detention policies, addressing both administrative discretion in detention orders and their judicial supervision. Due to vaguely formulated legal criteria and ineffective ex-post judicial supervision, the authorities have considerable discretionary powers in ordering detentions for noncompliant and criminalized noncitizens. Instead of being a measure of last resort, immigration…
Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations
Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable noncitizens with limited rights and protections. Drawing on an analysis of the detention system in Finland, I discuss different functions of immigration detention, focusing on police powers in the governance of mobile populations. In Finland, immigration detention is separated fr…
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice
Notwithstanding claims about the emergence of ‘crimmigration’ systems, immigration law and criminal law entail two different sets of instruments for authorities to control foreign nationals. Drawing on an analysis of removal orders for foreign offenders in Finland, this article demonstrates that significant administrative powers in immigration enforcement are employed largely autonomously from the criminal justice system. Immigration law enables …
Removals of ‘Dangerous’ Mobile EU Citizens: Public Order and Security as a Police Paradigm
Despite being frequently invoked in everyday police work and immigration enforcement to justify coercive measures, public order and security remains an ambiguous legal concept. For EU citizens, the Citizens’ Rights Directive stipulates public order and security grounds to provide a higher threshold against removals than criminal convictions alone. However, the removal grounds for EU citizens were founded on even less than criminal convictions in …
Borders in the future: Policing unwanted mobility through entry bans in the Schengen area
Despite their prominent role in the Return Directive and the constitution of the common European border regime, entry bans and their role in the governance of unwanted mobility remain largely unexamined in migration research. Entry bans accompany removal decisions for non-compliant or criminalised non-citizens, applying by default in the whole Schengen area, excluding EU citizens and legally residing third-country nationals, who receive national …
Citizenship
As a result of increased mobility and restrictive immigration policies in Europe, a growing number of people live in conditional and deportable positions with only limited social rights and access to welfare services. In this keyword, we discuss how the conception of national citizenship that underpins immigration and welfare regimes affects the position of non-citizens, with a particular focus on legal status as an instrument of hierarchisation …
Fear of small numbers: Assemblages of power in the deportation regime in Finland
This article critically examines the multiscalar, transnational, and interdependent nature of deportations with a focus on complex assemblages of power in shaping deportation outcomes inside and beyond the state. The police are the main actor in the security-oriented deportation regime in Finland, playing a key role in the formation of deportation policies by developing new assemblages with different actors in order to advance deportations. While…
Support and control: Individualised supervision work during gradual release in Finland
This article examines how supervision work during gradual release from prison in Finland contributes to the individualisation of punishment. Drawing on interviews with prison and community sanction officials, it demonstrates how probation and parole are understood as client-centred practices aimed at supporting social integration, with emphasis on individual planning, trust, and participatory cooperation instead of punitive control. Despite insti…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Immigration detention (6 works)