Saara
Pellander
Saara Pellander is the Director of the Migration Institute of Finland. She is a Doctor of Social Sciences and holds the title of Associate Professor in Political History at the University of Helsinki. She is the PI for the Academy of Finland funded INDEFI project on deportability and family ties. She has worked and published on issues related to the regulation of cross-border intimacies and family reunification especially from the perspectives of policies and their implementation, as well as media representations of (forced) migration and related activism.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4096 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-4390 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Migration Institute of Finland
Research Institute, Turku, Finland
Director
Research
Collective Discussion: Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic
| Authors | Reiko Shindo, Özlem Altan-Olcay, Evren Balta, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Political Sociology |
Buy me love: entanglements of citizenship, income and emotions in regulating marriage migration
| Authors | Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Cross-Border Marriages | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
(Not) Looking Like A Refugee
| Authors | Noora Kotilainen, Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Media History | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Alien Child’s Best Interest Ignored: When Notions of Gendered Parenthood Meet Tightening Immigration Policies
| Authors | Johanna Hiitola, Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research |
Buy me love: entanglements of citizenship, income and emotions in regulating marriage migration
| Authors | Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The Ageing Body as a Bordering Site: <i>Narrowing definitions of dependency for elderly family reunification in Finland</i>
| Authors | Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Conditions of cultural citizenship: intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration
| Authors | Karina Horsti, Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
Suggested Research
Regulating Marriage Migration into the UK: A Stranger in the Home
| Authors | Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Court decisions over marriage migration in Finland: a problem with transnational family ties
| Authors | Johanna Leinonen, Saara Pellander |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 15 |