Engaging the New Mobilities Paradigm in the Finnish Context
Driss Habti, doctor in sociology, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. His latest research project is on career mobility of Russian physicians in Finland. His main research interests include international migration and ethnic relations, global highly skilled mobility, ethnicity, and cultural diversity. Habti has taught courses in cultural diversity, migration and cultural security, and sociology of migration and mobility. He has co-edited special issues on international highly skilled migration, and he has international publications on issues related to international highly skilled migration, internationalization of higher education, and ethnicity and cultural diversity in Europe. He recently published a co-edited book with Maria Elo on highly skilled self-initiated expatriation.
Tuulikki Kurki, PhD and Adjunct Professor, works as a Senior Researcher in Cultural Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Currently, she also works as a deputy director of the Karelian Institute. As a principal investigator, she has managed two international research projects studying literature, cultural practices, and traumas at borders and borderlands: Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders and Traumatized Borders: Reviving Subversive Narratives of B/Order, and Other, funded by the Academy of Finland. In 2018, she and her research group launched a project entitled A Lost Mitten and Other Stories: Experiences of Borders and Mobilities and New Neighbourhoods, funded by the Kone Foundation.
Driss Habti, Tuulikki Kurki; Engaging the New Mobilities Paradigm in the Finnish Context. Journal of Finnish Studies 1 January 2019; 22 (1-2): 3–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/28315081.22.1.2.02
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