Niina Vuolajärvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 288381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niina Vuolajärvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niina |
| FAMILY NAME | Vuolajärvi |
| SIGNATURE | VUOLAJÄRVI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4948-7214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Everybody loves to hate methodological nationalism”
Surpassing the constraints of methodological nationalism has become one of the main questions in migration studies. Yet the nation-state framework continues to dominate research on migration. In this paper, we draw on two multi-sited fieldworks to discuss how to address methodological nationalism while attending to the centrality of the nation-state. We show how adopting a multi-sited and regime-based approach can help mitigate methodological nat…
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction
The Control of “Wandering Women
This paper traces the contemporary governance of migrant sex work to early vagrancy laws aimed at controlling poor mobile populations and people not engaging in ‘honest’ labor. The paper argues that these notions of dishonest labor are still visible in the contemporary crimmigration controls. It uses a legal analysis of the development of prostitution and immigration laws together with ethnographic research in the Nordic region as a case study to…
The discipline of hope
This article examines the role of hope in the stories of people with experiences of deportation collected during a photojournalistic research project following deportees from Europe. Drawing on the political philosophy of hope, specifically Ernst Bloch, this article explores the complex and ambiguous presence of hope and despair in the stories of deportees. Hope could present itself as denial, naïve optimism that everything will be fine, or as de…
Sexual Commerce
Precarious intimacies – Europeanised border regime and migrant sex work
This article examines the meaning of borders – the spaces where immigration policies and restrictions are materially condensed – in the lives of migrant sex workers. I provide a theoretical and conceptual framework to discuss the role of borders in creating living and working conditions for sex workers within the European border regime. This regime both restricts and enables a structural background for migrant sex work. I argue that sex work scho…
Governing in the Name of Caring—the Nordic Model of Prostitution and its Punitive Consequences for Migrants Who Sell Sex
Criminalising the Purchase of Sex
In 1999, Sweden criminalized the purchase of sexual services. The Swedish Sex Purchase Act was introduced with the aim of reducing the levels of prostitution and trafficking, while also providing a
Governing in the Name of Caring—the Nordic Model of Prostitution and its Punitive Consequences for Migrants Who Sell Sex
Precarious intimacies – Europeanised border regime and migrant sex work
This article examines the meaning of borders – the spaces where immigration policies and restrictions are materially condensed – in the lives of migrant sex workers. I provide a theoretical and conceptual framework to discuss the role of borders in creating living and working conditions for sex workers within the European border regime. This regime both restricts and enables a structural background for migrant sex work. I argue that sex work scho…
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction
The discipline of hope
This article examines the role of hope in the stories of people with experiences of deportation collected during a photojournalistic research project following deportees from Europe. Drawing on the political philosophy of hope, specifically Ernst Bloch, this article explores the complex and ambiguous presence of hope and despair in the stories of deportees. Hope could present itself as denial, naïve optimism that everything will be fine, or as de…
Criminalising the Purchase of Sex
In 1999, Sweden criminalized the purchase of sexual services. The Swedish Sex Purchase Act was introduced with the aim of reducing the levels of prostitution and trafficking, while also providing a
Criminalising the Purchase of Sex
In 1999, Sweden criminalized the purchase of sexual services. The Swedish Sex Purchase Act was introduced with the aim of reducing the levels of prostitution and trafficking, while also providing a
Governing in the Name of Caring—the Nordic Model of Prostitution and its Punitive Consequences for Migrants Who Sell Sex
Sexual Commerce
Precarious intimacies – Europeanised border regime and migrant sex work
This article examines the meaning of borders – the spaces where immigration policies and restrictions are materially condensed – in the lives of migrant sex workers. I provide a theoretical and conceptual framework to discuss the role of borders in creating living and working conditions for sex workers within the European border regime. This regime both restricts and enables a structural background for migrant sex work. I argue that sex work scho…
The discipline of hope
This article examines the role of hope in the stories of people with experiences of deportation collected during a photojournalistic research project following deportees from Europe. Drawing on the political philosophy of hope, specifically Ernst Bloch, this article explores the complex and ambiguous presence of hope and despair in the stories of deportees. Hope could present itself as denial, naïve optimism that everything will be fine, or as de…
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction
The Control of “Wandering Women
This paper traces the contemporary governance of migrant sex work to early vagrancy laws aimed at controlling poor mobile populations and people not engaging in ‘honest’ labor. The paper argues that these notions of dishonest labor are still visible in the contemporary crimmigration controls. It uses a legal analysis of the development of prostitution and immigration laws together with ethnographic research in the Nordic region as a case study to…
“Everybody loves to hate methodological nationalism”
Surpassing the constraints of methodological nationalism has become one of the main questions in migration studies. Yet the nation-state framework continues to dominate research on migration. In this paper, we draw on two multi-sited fieldworks to discuss how to address methodological nationalism while attending to the centrality of the nation-state. We show how adopting a multi-sited and regime-based approach can help mitigate methodological nat…
Political science (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sex work and related issues (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (2 works)