This project is on-going ethnographic research of migrants in North Karelia. Since the beginning of the 2000s, I have been carrying on my research among Russian migrants from the everyday ethnographic perspective, in the border areas of North Karelia. The theoretical framework of the project lies in the intersection of welfare politics, transnational everyday life, rural border areas and everyday geopolitics (see e.g. Pöllänen & Davydova-Minguet 2017). Methodologically the study continues the border ethnography tradition (Davydova & Pöllänen 2010, 2011; Vila 2003). This project conducts research on migration and transnationalism in the contexts of border areas in the era of austerity policy and politics.
Sanna Mustasaari ([email protected])
LL.D (title of Docent) Sanna Mustasaari is Associate Professor of family law at the civil law team and the Center of Law and Welfare, UEF Law School. She is a member of the leading group of the research community Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters BOMOCULT | University of Eastern Finland. Her main research interests include family and inheritance law, transnational child welfare, intersections of religion and family law, human rights law, private international law, migration law, children’s rights, trans rights, relational legal theory, feminist legal theory, rights in context, and migration and transnationalism studies.