Pellander, Saara

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...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4096
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-4390

Roles

  • 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
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1 Journal Article

Buy me love: entanglements of citizenship, income and emotions in regulating marriage migration

Authors Saara Pellander
Year 2023
Book Title Cross-Border Marriages
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2 Book Chapter

(Not) Looking Like A Refugee

Authors Noora Kotilainen, Saara Pellander
Year 2022
Journal Name Media History
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3 Journal Article

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
4 Journal Article

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
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5 Journal Article

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
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6 Journal Article

The Ageing Body as a Bordering Site: Narrowing definitions of dependency for elderly family reunification in Finland

Authors Saara Pellander
Year 2018
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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7 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Court decisions over marriage migration in Finland: a problem with transnational family ties

Authors Johanna Leinonen, Saara Pellander
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 15
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1 Journal Article
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