Marja Alastalo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4244743 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marja Alastalo |
| NOMBRES | Marja |
| APELLIDO | Alastalo |
| FIRMA | ALASTALO M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4133-7393 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Frictions in Automating Routine Data Work
This article explores the implementation of an Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -based robot designed to automate one small phase of data validation in primary healthcare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Finnish wellbeing services county, we investigate the complexities involved in the implementation and use of RPA technology. Theoretically, the article uses and develops the concepts of breakdown and friction to examine how the r…
Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state
This article analyses border practices that are enacted through an array of migrants’ residence registration procedures in Finland. These practices extend to the country of departure and also take place upon arrival and settlement within a municipality, and they are intimately tied with the person’s access to social rights in the country. Building on critical border studies and Annemarie Mol’s idea of multiple ontologies we examine migrant storie…
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
Organisational and professional hierarchies in a data management system
Nordic countries are considered international leaders in producing combinable data on their citizens’ encounters with public institutions, as well as the digitalisation of public services. Public-sector professionals increasingly collaborate with private IT companies in developing data analytics products for cost saving and cost-efficiency. This article presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of a collaboration between the Knowledge…
A code for care and control
Many states make use of personal identity numbers (PINs) to govern people living in their territory and jurisdiction, but only a few rely on an all-purpose PIN used throughout the public and private sectors. This article examines the all-purpose PIN in Finland as a political technology that brings people to the sphere of public welfare services and subjects them to governance by public authorities and expert institutions. Drawing on documentary m…
Software-Sorted Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Norway and Finland
As James Scott writes, to be able to govern, administrative bodies need to make objects of government legible. Yet migrant persons do not fall neatly into the categories of administrative agencies. This categorical ambiguity is illustrated in the tendency to exclude asylum seekers from various population registers and to not provide them with ID numbers, which constitute the backbone of many welfare states in Europe. Based on ethnographic fieldwo…
The early school leaver count as a policy instrument in EU governance
The EU has embraced the use of indicators as policy instruments for achieving common aims. One of the indicators, ‘early school leaver’ (ESL), depicts the proportion of young people leaving education and training prematurely. Initially defined as an education policy indicator, it has been transformed into a performance indicator measuring the targets of the current Europe 2020 strategy. In this article, we examine how the indicator works as a pol…
Eurostat
Number of Children Placed Outside the Home as an Indicator – Social and Moral Implications of Commensuration
The article explores what goes into one particular child indicator – children placed outside their home – and how it makes its object of description knowable and governable. This indicator is widely used in the making of social policy as a follow‐up and performance indicator and is applied also in social research, including cross‐national comparisons, to recognize problems and their scope, especially with reference to child welfare. The indicator…
A code for care and control
Many states make use of personal identity numbers (PINs) to govern people living in their territory and jurisdiction, but only a few rely on an all-purpose PIN used throughout the public and private sectors. This article examines the all-purpose PIN in Finland as a political technology that brings people to the sphere of public welfare services and subjects them to governance by public authorities and expert institutions. Drawing on documentary m…
Number of Children Placed Outside the Home as an Indicator – Social and Moral Implications of Commensuration
The article explores what goes into one particular child indicator – children placed outside their home – and how it makes its object of description knowable and governable. This indicator is widely used in the making of social policy as a follow‐up and performance indicator and is applied also in social research, including cross‐national comparisons, to recognize problems and their scope, especially with reference to child welfare. The indicator…
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
The early school leaver count as a policy instrument in EU governance
The EU has embraced the use of indicators as policy instruments for achieving common aims. One of the indicators, ‘early school leaver’ (ESL), depicts the proportion of young people leaving education and training prematurely. Initially defined as an education policy indicator, it has been transformed into a performance indicator measuring the targets of the current Europe 2020 strategy. In this article, we examine how the indicator works as a pol…
Number of Children Placed Outside the Home as an Indicator – Social and Moral Implications of Commensuration
The article explores what goes into one particular child indicator – children placed outside their home – and how it makes its object of description knowable and governable. This indicator is widely used in the making of social policy as a follow‐up and performance indicator and is applied also in social research, including cross‐national comparisons, to recognize problems and their scope, especially with reference to child welfare. The indicator…
Eurostat
The early school leaver count as a policy instrument in EU governance
The EU has embraced the use of indicators as policy instruments for achieving common aims. One of the indicators, ‘early school leaver’ (ESL), depicts the proportion of young people leaving education and training prematurely. Initially defined as an education policy indicator, it has been transformed into a performance indicator measuring the targets of the current Europe 2020 strategy. In this article, we examine how the indicator works as a pol…
Software-Sorted Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Norway and Finland
As James Scott writes, to be able to govern, administrative bodies need to make objects of government legible. Yet migrant persons do not fall neatly into the categories of administrative agencies. This categorical ambiguity is illustrated in the tendency to exclude asylum seekers from various population registers and to not provide them with ID numbers, which constitute the backbone of many welfare states in Europe. Based on ethnographic fieldwo…
A code for care and control
Many states make use of personal identity numbers (PINs) to govern people living in their territory and jurisdiction, but only a few rely on an all-purpose PIN used throughout the public and private sectors. This article examines the all-purpose PIN in Finland as a political technology that brings people to the sphere of public welfare services and subjects them to governance by public authorities and expert institutions. Drawing on documentary m…
Organisational and professional hierarchies in a data management system
Nordic countries are considered international leaders in producing combinable data on their citizens’ encounters with public institutions, as well as the digitalisation of public services. Public-sector professionals increasingly collaborate with private IT companies in developing data analytics products for cost saving and cost-efficiency. This article presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of a collaboration between the Knowledge…
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
Frictions in Automating Routine Data Work
This article explores the implementation of an Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -based robot designed to automate one small phase of data validation in primary healthcare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Finnish wellbeing services county, we investigate the complexities involved in the implementation and use of RPA technology. Theoretically, the article uses and develops the concepts of breakdown and friction to examine how the r…
Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state
This article analyses border practices that are enacted through an array of migrants’ residence registration procedures in Finland. These practices extend to the country of departure and also take place upon arrival and settlement within a municipality, and they are intimately tied with the person’s access to social rights in the country. Building on critical border studies and Annemarie Mol’s idea of multiple ontologies we examine migrant storie…
Political science (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Welfare (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Welfare state (4 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Law (3 obras)