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Paula Paajanen

Project Researcher

Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies

[email protected] | +358 50 434 7354

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I work as a postdoctoral researcher in FriendMUM research project, which studies intercultural friendships between immigrant and Finnish mothers/women in the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare’s ‘Friend for an Immigrant Mum’ program. I also work as a part-time teacher in social psychology.

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Paajanen, P. (2024). Intergroup relations in multiethnic neighborhoods : informal segregation and everyday contact among mothers of young children. Dissertations in Social Sciences and Business Studies, 340. Kuopio: University of Eastern Finland. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-61-5356-8

Finell, E., Paajanen, P., & Riikonen, R. (2024). Ulkomaalais- ja suomalaistaustaisten pienten lasten äitien väliset kohtaamiset omalla asuinalueella [Encounters between mothers of young children with foreign and Finnish backgrounds in their own residential area]. Teoksessa Renvik, Tuuli Anna & Säävälä, Minna (toim.). (2024). Kotoutumisen kokonaiskatsaus 2023: Näkökulmana väestösuhteet [Comprehensive Review of Integration 2023: Population Relations as a Perspective] (pp. 175–185). TEM oppaat ja muut julkaisut 2024:1 FI. Helsinki: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-327-703-8

Paajanen, P., Finell, E., Riikonen, R. & Stevenson, C. (2023). ‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers’ talk. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(6), 1426–1439. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2746

Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Stevenson, C., Paajanen, P., Repo, K., & Finell, E. (2023). Intragroup contact with other mothers living in the same neighborhood benefits mothers’ life satisfaction: The mediating role of group identification and social support. Journal of Community Psychology, 51, 1365–1377. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22960

Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Suoninen, E., Paajanen, P., & Stevenson, C. (2023). Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62, 264–280. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12580

Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., Riikonen, R., & Finell, E. (2023). Keeping apart on the playground: Construction of informal segregation on public playgrounds in multiethnic neighborhoods. Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221116632

Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Child’s presence shapes immigrant women’s experiences of everyday intergroup contact. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(2), 430–444. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7477

Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Paajanen, P., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Development of first-time mothers’ sense of shared identity and integration with other mothers in their neighbourhood. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32(4), 692–705. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2592

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intergroup contact intergroup relations mothers qualitative research social psychology

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