Paula Merikoski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 382709 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paula Merikoski |
| PRENOMES | Paula |
| SOBRENOME | Merikoski |
| ASSINATURA | MERIKOSKI P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1346-7913 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
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…
Living Together through the Asylum Process
This article examines the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland from the perspective of hosts' affective experiences of living through the asylum process from proximity. This study contributes to the research on the affective dimension of pro-asylum solidarity beyond the framework of compassion. Instead of being observers of distant suffering, hosts are personally affected by the asylum seekers' past involving war and conflict and their…
At least they are welcome in my home!' Contentious hospitality in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland
This article discusses hospitality towards asylum seekers as a political and contentious act. Accommodating asylum seekers in local homes is one of the pro-asylum mobilisations that emerged across Europe following the ‘summer of migration’. Based on interviews with local hosts in Finland, this article demonstrates that offering accommodation is often motivated by an explicit mistrust in state asylum policies and a will to make a statement in supp…
At least they are welcome in my home!' Contentious hospitality in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland
This article discusses hospitality towards asylum seekers as a political and contentious act. Accommodating asylum seekers in local homes is one of the pro-asylum mobilisations that emerged across Europe following the ‘summer of migration’. Based on interviews with local hosts in Finland, this article demonstrates that offering accommodation is often motivated by an explicit mistrust in state asylum policies and a will to make a statement in supp…
Living Together through the Asylum Process
This article examines the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland from the perspective of hosts' affective experiences of living through the asylum process from proximity. This study contributes to the research on the affective dimension of pro-asylum solidarity beyond the framework of compassion. Instead of being observers of distant suffering, hosts are personally affected by the asylum seekers' past involving war and conflict and their…
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…
At least they are welcome in my home!' Contentious hospitality in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland
This article discusses hospitality towards asylum seekers as a political and contentious act. Accommodating asylum seekers in local homes is one of the pro-asylum mobilisations that emerged across Europe following the ‘summer of migration’. Based on interviews with local hosts in Finland, this article demonstrates that offering accommodation is often motivated by an explicit mistrust in state asylum policies and a will to make a statement in supp…
Living Together through the Asylum Process
This article examines the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland from the perspective of hosts' affective experiences of living through the asylum process from proximity. This study contributes to the research on the affective dimension of pro-asylum solidarity beyond the framework of compassion. Instead of being observers of distant suffering, hosts are personally affected by the asylum seekers' past involving war and conflict and their…
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…
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…
Law (4 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Accommodation (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Refugee (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 obras)