Aija Lulle
Senior Researcher
Karelian Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
aija.lulle@uef.fi | +358 50 304 0443
I am a migration scholar and geographer, currently working on a project Returning home? Making and imagining ageing futures. This research examines the lives of ageing people in the historical context of recent large-scale emigration and the unprecedented acceleration of population ageing in Eastern Europe. Its rationale originates from an urgent necessity to understand the wellbeing needs of ageing people. The theoretical approach is grounded in concepts from human geography and migration theory, focusing on migrants’ capabilities to aspire. The project utilises sensory, practical and imaginative homemaking practices.
Prior to my current research post, I was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University, UK. My experience includes intense teaching and diverse fieldwork in Baltics, Nordic countries, border regions with Russia and the UK. In addition, I have significant leadership and administrative skills (as Director of the Diaspora and Migration Research Centre in Latvia (2014-2015) and as head of Doctoral Programmes in Geography and Environment in Loughborough (2021-2022).
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Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and sexualities
Lulle, Aija; Schweppe, Cornelia. 2023. Sexualities. [First published online March 7, 2023]: 1-7 -
How do borders produce ethno-sexualisation and lived senses of sexuality? Insights from lives of Latvian women in Guernsey
Lulle, Aija. Teoksessa: Helms, Elissa; Pulkkinen, Tuija(toim.) , 2023. Borders of Desire: Gender and Sexuality at the Eastern Borders of Europe. s. 62-79. Manchester university press -
Older migrants and self-realization projects
Lulle, Aija; King, Russell. Teoksessa: Torres, Sandra; Hunter, Alistair(toim.) , 2023. Handbook on Migration and Ageing. s. 229-240. Edward Elgar -
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK
Lulle, Aija. 2023. Sociological review. 71: 315-331 -
Life Course Justice and Learning
Lulle, Aija. 2022. Social inclusion. 10: 76-78 -
Visiting migrants: An introduction
Miah, Md Farid; King, Russell; Lulle, Aija. 2022. Global networks: a journal of transnational affairs. 2023; 23: 150-159 -
Age Matters: Encountering the Dynamism of a Child's Agency from Cradle to Emerging Adulthood
Lulle; Aija. Teoksessa: Assmuth, Laura; Hakkarainen, Marina; Lulle; Aija, Siim, Pihla Maria(toim.) , 2018. Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe. s. 235-250. Palgrave Macmillan -
Children in Translocal Families
Assmuth, Laura; Hakkarainen, Marina; Lulle; Aija, Siim, Pihla Maria. Teoksessa: Assmuth, Laura; Hakkarainen, Marina; Lulle; Aija, Siim, Pihla Maria(toim.) , 2018. Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe. s. 3-33. Palgrave Macmillan -
Doing Translocal Families Through Children's Names
Balode, Marta; Lulle; Aija. Teoksessa: Assmuth, Laura; Hakkarainen, Marina; Lulle; Aija, Siim, Pihla Maria(toim.) , 2018. Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe. s. 63-85. Palgrave Macmillan -
Mobilities and waiting: experiences of middle-aged Latvian women who emigrated and those who stayed put
Lulle, Aija. 2018. Gender, place and culture. 25: 1193-1208