Camilla Nordberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 384254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Nordberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Nordberg |
| SIGNATURE | NORDBERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6448-8891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Meaning‐Making of Mental Health and Mental Health Support Among Asylum Seekers in Reception Context
Asylum seekers face higher mental health risks than quota and other refugee groups. In Finland, reception centres organise health and social services for asylum seekers. This study examines how asylum seekers make sense of mental health and mental health support to help improve the services. This qualitative study involved ten semi‐structured interviews. Asylum seekers were interviewed in person in four reception centres across Finland between No…
Some Useful Sources
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary
The article studies how public policies of migrant ‘integration’ are enacted and made sense of in the street-level welfare state from the perspective of social work practitioners performing integration work and with a focus on language and language skills acquisition. It draws from twenty-seven semi-structured individual interviews and reflective discussions after service user meetings with eleven social workers and social advisors in migrant int…
Introduction
This themed section explores linguistic disadvantage as a key form of structural-institutional disadvantage in welfare societies, focusing on how language policies, practices, and ideologies shape migrant background service users’ access to services, rights, and social protection. The novel contribution by the team of authors with a background in social policy, social work, sociology, and ethnology is to fill existing conceptual and empirical gap…
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions
Social policy has not systematically addressed linguistic disadvantage and its enactment through welfare policies and practices. In this state-of-the-art article, we review literature on linguistic disadvantage in various fields, highlighting its dialogue with broader social policy research on inclusive and exclusive tendencies within welfare policies and practices. We distinguish between three thematically separate, yet intertwined, perspectives…
Linguistic Vulnerability and Slow Bureaucratic Violence in Institutional Welfare Borderscapes
Despite the fact that public services in contemporary societies are increasingly marked by language diversity, research on language as a vantage point for understanding social (in)justice in human service work is still scarce. The logic of the neoliberal welfare state emphasises an individual’s responsibility and thus produces a situation where one has to actively claim services, such as interpretation. Drawing on conceptualisations of bureaucrat…
Sharing domestic space in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland
In Finland, a grassroots initiative for accommodating asylum-seeking migrants in local homes took off in 2015.This hospitable initiative is about offering asylum seekers the chance to live with locals during the asylum process rather than in a reception centre.Drawing on the voices of local hosts, the article investigates how the racialised and gendered public discourses on asylum-seekers are challenged and reproduced in home accommodation.Moreov…
Ruling Relations Coordinating the ‘Migrant Family’ in Institutional Encounters between Finnish Social Work Professionals and Migrant Service Users
Despite the growing body of literature on how migrancy transforms family relations, surprisingly little research exists on how ‘migrant family’ takes shape in institutional encounters. In this article, we analyse the negotiations on when and how family relations become addressed in encounters between social workers and migrant service users. Drawing from institutional ethnography, we understand the local service encounters as actively regulated b…
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level
While previous research has highlighted the significant role of language in conditioning migrants’ access to key institutions of the welfare state, the question of how individual migrants experience linguistic disadvantage has been less in focus. Drawing on a relational approach, the article moves beyond the idea of language barriers as a static structure of (in)equality or a matter of individual shortcomings. It demonstrates how language policie…
Changes in the Well-Being of Foreign Language Speaking Migrant Mothers Living in Finland during the Initial Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines changes in the well-being of foreign-language-speaking migrant mothers living in Finland during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Our data consist of 73 mothers' responses to a qualitative survey conducted between 18 April and 26 May 2020. In our analysis, we employ the division of well-being into three dimensions: having, loving, and being. According to our results, the participating mothers …
The ethical performance of access and consent in ethnographic research on social work encounters with migrant-background service users
In this article, we contribute to an emerging body of literature concerning the often-overlooked topics of access and consent in research. We posit our understanding of access and consent as continuous ethical reflection and negotiation, conceptualised here as ethical performance, which is particularly valuable in research in institutional contexts defined by numerous power asymmetries. We draw empirically from research on street-level institutio…
Outsourcing Equality
Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories of care workers and a redefinition of the terms of citizenship and participation in working life. Drawing on the idea that policy actors script care worker subjectivities, this article examines print media as a key arena where the cultural imaginary of care work is played out. The media has the potential to accommodate ideological complexity throug…
Neoliberal postcolonialism in the media
In 2007, a private recruitment agency started recruiting nurses from the Philippines to private elderly care homes and to operation wards in Finland. Although less than a hundred nurses have been recruited to Finland, the recruitment has received extensive media attention. Applying discourse analysis to the media data, the article analyzes the ways in which Filipino subjects were constructed by the Finnish media. We distinguish three types of cat…
Invisibilised Visions
In a time of welfare state restructuring, migrant background 'stay-at-home' mothers have become a politicised social category, constructed as unproductive and socially disengaged. The article examines the ways newly arrived women, who take care of children at home, enact and negotiate their own and their families' early citizenisation process, with a particular focus on institutional encounters. Drawing on two case stories from the capital region…
Street-Level Engagements
Medierepresentationer av etnicitetsochmigrationsrelaterade frågor inomäldreomsorgen i Sverige och Finland
Media representations of ethnicity- and migration-related issues within the elderly care in Sweden and FinlandResearch on welfare regimes and migration regimes has shown that Sweden and Finland have similar elderly care regimes but different migration regimes. It is against this backdrop that we set out to study what Swedish and Finnish daily press focusing on elderly care has written about ethnic minorities, migrants and migration. The study use…
Claiming Citizenship
While the Roma in Finland share history and national myths with the majority population, they have maintained their particular sense of identity. In spite of increasing recognition, manifested in legislation, their socio-economic position is still poor. This article explores the articulation of citizenship, identity and belonging among Finnish Roma. The study is based on conversation-like interviews with Romani activists. Recognising the marginal…
Legitimising immigration control
The arrival of groups of Romani asylum‐seekers in Finland during 1999–2000 sparked an intense political debate, largely conducted in the press. The Finnish Aliens Act was eventually changed and 'manifestly unfounded' applications could be rejected in accordance with an accelerated procedure. By scrutinising the press debate on Romani asylum‐seekers this article sheds light on the articulation of various nation‐state dilemmas in relation to immigr…
Claiming Citizenship
While the Roma in Finland share history and national myths with the majority population, they have maintained their particular sense of identity. In spite of increasing recognition, manifested in legislation, their socio-economic position is still poor. This article explores the articulation of citizenship, identity and belonging among Finnish Roma. The study is based on conversation-like interviews with Romani activists. Recognising the marginal…
Invisibilised Visions
In a time of welfare state restructuring, migrant background 'stay-at-home' mothers have become a politicised social category, constructed as unproductive and socially disengaged. The article examines the ways newly arrived women, who take care of children at home, enact and negotiate their own and their families' early citizenisation process, with a particular focus on institutional encounters. Drawing on two case stories from the capital region…
Street-Level Engagements
Neoliberal postcolonialism in the media
In 2007, a private recruitment agency started recruiting nurses from the Philippines to private elderly care homes and to operation wards in Finland. Although less than a hundred nurses have been recruited to Finland, the recruitment has received extensive media attention. Applying discourse analysis to the media data, the article analyzes the ways in which Filipino subjects were constructed by the Finnish media. We distinguish three types of cat…
Legitimising immigration control
The arrival of groups of Romani asylum‐seekers in Finland during 1999–2000 sparked an intense political debate, largely conducted in the press. The Finnish Aliens Act was eventually changed and 'manifestly unfounded' applications could be rejected in accordance with an accelerated procedure. By scrutinising the press debate on Romani asylum‐seekers this article sheds light on the articulation of various nation‐state dilemmas in relation to immigr…
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary
The article studies how public policies of migrant ‘integration’ are enacted and made sense of in the street-level welfare state from the perspective of social work practitioners performing integration work and with a focus on language and language skills acquisition. It draws from twenty-seven semi-structured individual interviews and reflective discussions after service user meetings with eleven social workers and social advisors in migrant int…
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level
While previous research has highlighted the significant role of language in conditioning migrants’ access to key institutions of the welfare state, the question of how individual migrants experience linguistic disadvantage has been less in focus. Drawing on a relational approach, the article moves beyond the idea of language barriers as a static structure of (in)equality or a matter of individual shortcomings. It demonstrates how language policie…
Linguistic Vulnerability and Slow Bureaucratic Violence in Institutional Welfare Borderscapes
Despite the fact that public services in contemporary societies are increasingly marked by language diversity, research on language as a vantage point for understanding social (in)justice in human service work is still scarce. The logic of the neoliberal welfare state emphasises an individual’s responsibility and thus produces a situation where one has to actively claim services, such as interpretation. Drawing on conceptualisations of bureaucrat…
Changes in the Well-Being of Foreign Language Speaking Migrant Mothers Living in Finland during the Initial Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines changes in the well-being of foreign-language-speaking migrant mothers living in Finland during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Our data consist of 73 mothers' responses to a qualitative survey conducted between 18 April and 26 May 2020. In our analysis, we employ the division of well-being into three dimensions: having, loving, and being. According to our results, the participating mothers …
Legitimising immigration control
The arrival of groups of Romani asylum‐seekers in Finland during 1999–2000 sparked an intense political debate, largely conducted in the press. The Finnish Aliens Act was eventually changed and 'manifestly unfounded' applications could be rejected in accordance with an accelerated procedure. By scrutinising the press debate on Romani asylum‐seekers this article sheds light on the articulation of various nation‐state dilemmas in relation to immigr…
Claiming Citizenship
While the Roma in Finland share history and national myths with the majority population, they have maintained their particular sense of identity. In spite of increasing recognition, manifested in legislation, their socio-economic position is still poor. This article explores the articulation of citizenship, identity and belonging among Finnish Roma. The study is based on conversation-like interviews with Romani activists. Recognising the marginal…
Medierepresentationer av etnicitetsochmigrationsrelaterade frågor inomäldreomsorgen i Sverige och Finland
Media representations of ethnicity- and migration-related issues within the elderly care in Sweden and FinlandResearch on welfare regimes and migration regimes has shown that Sweden and Finland have similar elderly care regimes but different migration regimes. It is against this backdrop that we set out to study what Swedish and Finnish daily press focusing on elderly care has written about ethnic minorities, migrants and migration. The study use…
Neoliberal postcolonialism in the media
In 2007, a private recruitment agency started recruiting nurses from the Philippines to private elderly care homes and to operation wards in Finland. Although less than a hundred nurses have been recruited to Finland, the recruitment has received extensive media attention. Applying discourse analysis to the media data, the article analyzes the ways in which Filipino subjects were constructed by the Finnish media. We distinguish three types of cat…
Invisibilised Visions
In a time of welfare state restructuring, migrant background 'stay-at-home' mothers have become a politicised social category, constructed as unproductive and socially disengaged. The article examines the ways newly arrived women, who take care of children at home, enact and negotiate their own and their families' early citizenisation process, with a particular focus on institutional encounters. Drawing on two case stories from the capital region…
Street-Level Engagements
Outsourcing Equality
Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories of care workers and a redefinition of the terms of citizenship and participation in working life. Drawing on the idea that policy actors script care worker subjectivities, this article examines print media as a key arena where the cultural imaginary of care work is played out. The media has the potential to accommodate ideological complexity throug…
The ethical performance of access and consent in ethnographic research on social work encounters with migrant-background service users
In this article, we contribute to an emerging body of literature concerning the often-overlooked topics of access and consent in research. We posit our understanding of access and consent as continuous ethical reflection and negotiation, conceptualised here as ethical performance, which is particularly valuable in research in institutional contexts defined by numerous power asymmetries. We draw empirically from research on street-level institutio…
Sharing domestic space in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland
In Finland, a grassroots initiative for accommodating asylum-seeking migrants in local homes took off in 2015.This hospitable initiative is about offering asylum seekers the chance to live with locals during the asylum process rather than in a reception centre.Drawing on the voices of local hosts, the article investigates how the racialised and gendered public discourses on asylum-seekers are challenged and reproduced in home accommodation.Moreov…
Ruling Relations Coordinating the ‘Migrant Family’ in Institutional Encounters between Finnish Social Work Professionals and Migrant Service Users
Despite the growing body of literature on how migrancy transforms family relations, surprisingly little research exists on how ‘migrant family’ takes shape in institutional encounters. In this article, we analyse the negotiations on when and how family relations become addressed in encounters between social workers and migrant service users. Drawing from institutional ethnography, we understand the local service encounters as actively regulated b…
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level
While previous research has highlighted the significant role of language in conditioning migrants’ access to key institutions of the welfare state, the question of how individual migrants experience linguistic disadvantage has been less in focus. Drawing on a relational approach, the article moves beyond the idea of language barriers as a static structure of (in)equality or a matter of individual shortcomings. It demonstrates how language policie…
Changes in the Well-Being of Foreign Language Speaking Migrant Mothers Living in Finland during the Initial Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines changes in the well-being of foreign-language-speaking migrant mothers living in Finland during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Our data consist of 73 mothers' responses to a qualitative survey conducted between 18 April and 26 May 2020. In our analysis, we employ the division of well-being into three dimensions: having, loving, and being. According to our results, the participating mothers …
Some Useful Sources
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary
The article studies how public policies of migrant ‘integration’ are enacted and made sense of in the street-level welfare state from the perspective of social work practitioners performing integration work and with a focus on language and language skills acquisition. It draws from twenty-seven semi-structured individual interviews and reflective discussions after service user meetings with eleven social workers and social advisors in migrant int…
Introduction
This themed section explores linguistic disadvantage as a key form of structural-institutional disadvantage in welfare societies, focusing on how language policies, practices, and ideologies shape migrant background service users’ access to services, rights, and social protection. The novel contribution by the team of authors with a background in social policy, social work, sociology, and ethnology is to fill existing conceptual and empirical gap…
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions
Social policy has not systematically addressed linguistic disadvantage and its enactment through welfare policies and practices. In this state-of-the-art article, we review literature on linguistic disadvantage in various fields, highlighting its dialogue with broader social policy research on inclusive and exclusive tendencies within welfare policies and practices. We distinguish between three thematically separate, yet intertwined, perspectives…
Linguistic Vulnerability and Slow Bureaucratic Violence in Institutional Welfare Borderscapes
Despite the fact that public services in contemporary societies are increasingly marked by language diversity, research on language as a vantage point for understanding social (in)justice in human service work is still scarce. The logic of the neoliberal welfare state emphasises an individual’s responsibility and thus produces a situation where one has to actively claim services, such as interpretation. Drawing on conceptualisations of bureaucrat…
Meaning‐Making of Mental Health and Mental Health Support Among Asylum Seekers in Reception Context
Asylum seekers face higher mental health risks than quota and other refugee groups. In Finland, reception centres organise health and social services for asylum seekers. This study examines how asylum seekers make sense of mental health and mental health support to help improve the services. This qualitative study involved ten semi‐structured interviews. Asylum seekers were interviewed in person in four reception centres across Finland between No…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Welfare (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works)