Saana Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saana Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saana |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2556-0704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Saving ‘the Greenlandic child’? Postcolonial humanitarianism and ‘the adoption’ of Inuit (Greenlandic) children by Danish families
This article explores why hundreds, possibly thousands, of Inuit children from Greenland were placed into Danish families between the 1950s and 1970s, examining postcolonial ideals of modernization and humanitarianism. It highlights the creation of the ‘vulnerable Greenlandic child’, the coexistence of formal and informal adoptions, and the lasting effects of historical silence around them
The Price of Suffering? Monetary Compensation Claims for the Danish State's Postcolonial Child Displacement in Greenland
This article explores how the cost of harm and suffering are measured and monetized in contemporary compensation claims for postcolonial child removals from Greenland to Denmark. I ask how painful past experiences can be translated into legal compensation claims and which forms of harm remain uncounted and, therefore, economically worthless. I draw on ethnographic material from two monetary reparation cases in the context of child displacement fr…
Lectio præcursoria-Economies of care and politics of return: Sustaining life among injivas and their families in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate's research or even anthropological research in general
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
This article explores how Zimbabwe’s prolonged politico-economic crisis and large-scale migration to South Africa have impacted care practices surrounding transnational death. Focusing on the repatriation of dying and deceased injivas (low-income migrants from Matabeleland), it examines how return migrants and their social networks seek to maintain social continuity amid economic and legal challenges, highlighting the importance of injivas return…
Reaching 'the Vulnerable' by Working from the Heart: Community Case Workers in Zimbabwe
This article considers how the image of a caring state is both performed and contested by the actual workings of Zimbabwe's volunteer community case workers (CCWs). According to their policy mandate, the volunteers' commitment to registering 'the vulnerable' and mobilising them for different welfare project purposes is based on an assumed affective closeness to their communities. Ethnographic investigation also identifies community-level care wor…
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
This article explores how Zimbabwe’s prolonged politico-economic crisis and large-scale migration to South Africa have impacted care practices surrounding transnational death. Focusing on the repatriation of dying and deceased injivas (low-income migrants from Matabeleland), it examines how return migrants and their social networks seek to maintain social continuity amid economic and legal challenges, highlighting the importance of injivas return…
Reaching 'the Vulnerable' by Working from the Heart: Community Case Workers in Zimbabwe
This article considers how the image of a caring state is both performed and contested by the actual workings of Zimbabwe's volunteer community case workers (CCWs). According to their policy mandate, the volunteers' commitment to registering 'the vulnerable' and mobilising them for different welfare project purposes is based on an assumed affective closeness to their communities. Ethnographic investigation also identifies community-level care wor…
Lectio præcursoria-Economies of care and politics of return: Sustaining life among injivas and their families in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate's research or even anthropological research in general
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
This article explores how Zimbabwe’s prolonged politico-economic crisis and large-scale migration to South Africa have impacted care practices surrounding transnational death. Focusing on the repatriation of dying and deceased injivas (low-income migrants from Matabeleland), it examines how return migrants and their social networks seek to maintain social continuity amid economic and legal challenges, highlighting the importance of injivas return…
The Price of Suffering? Monetary Compensation Claims for the Danish State's Postcolonial Child Displacement in Greenland
This article explores how the cost of harm and suffering are measured and monetized in contemporary compensation claims for postcolonial child removals from Greenland to Denmark. I ask how painful past experiences can be translated into legal compensation claims and which forms of harm remain uncounted and, therefore, economically worthless. I draw on ethnographic material from two monetary reparation cases in the context of child displacement fr…
Saving ‘the Greenlandic child’? Postcolonial humanitarianism and ‘the adoption’ of Inuit (Greenlandic) children by Danish families
This article explores why hundreds, possibly thousands, of Inuit children from Greenland were placed into Danish families between the 1950s and 1970s, examining postcolonial ideals of modernization and humanitarianism. It highlights the creation of the ‘vulnerable Greenlandic child’, the coexistence of formal and informal adoptions, and the lasting effects of historical silence around them
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Ancestor (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (1 works)