Elina Turjanmaa
University Lecturer
Social Psychology
Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
[email protected] | +358 50 566 1427
Elina Turjanmaa is a Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on migration, minority identities, and family relationships. She has examined, for example, how intergenerational relationships are shaped after migration, the transmission of historical trauma in families with a forced migrant background, and the relationship between familial remembering of past traumatic events and descendants’ mental health. After completing her doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki in 2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland and the University of Oulu, and as a visiting researcher at the University of Essex, before joining Kuopio in Autumn 2024. Currently, Elina leads a project funded by the Kone Foundation that examines intergenerational experiences of non-belonging and their connections to mental health in Swedish Finnish families.
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Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories
Leinonen, Johanna; Jalagin, Seija; Kähäri, Outi; Leppihalme, Ilmari; Määttä, Hanna-Leena; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2026, Helsinki University Press. C2 Edited book, conference proceedings or special issue of a journal -
Emotions and emotional agency at work: the perspective of trust
Vanhanen, Sari; Turjanmaa, Elina; Kähäri, Outi, 2026, Vocations and learning, 19, 1, 1. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Family, Memory, and Displacement: Introduction
Leinonen, Johanna; Jalagin, Seija; Kähäri, Outi; Leppihalme, Ilmari; Määttä, Hanna-Leena; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2026, Leinonen, Johanna; Jalagin, Seija; Kähäri, Outi; Leppihalme, Ilmari; Määttä, Hanna-Leena; Turjanmaa, Elina, Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories, 1-21. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Hidden Family History and Sense of Coherence among Second- and Third-Generation Displaced Ingrians
Turjanmaa, Elina; Kähäri, Outi, 2026, Leinonen, Johanna; Jalagin, Seija; Kähäri, Outi; Leppihalme, Ilmari; Määttä, Hanna-Leena; Turjanmaa, Elina, Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories, 165-184. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Monialaisen kotoutumistyön haasteet ja mahdollisuudet : näkökulmana instituutioiden välinen luottamus
Kähäri, Outi; Raunio, Mika; Turjanmaa, Elina; Vanhanen, Sari; Tiilikainen Marja, 2026, Mobile Futures. D4 Published development or research report or study -
Embodied Memory and the Social Trauma of Family Separation: A Case Study of the Ingrian Diaspora
Kähäri, Outi; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2025, Body and society, 32, 1, 29-55. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Ethnic Identity as Social Curse: Intergenerational Transmission of Historical Trauma
Turjanmaa, Elina; Finell, Eerika; Tolvanen, Asko, 2025, Journal of community and applied social psychology, 35, 3, e70094. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Immigrants’ identities in time and context
Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga; Birman, Dina; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2025, Branscombe, Nyla R.; Reynolds, Katherine J., Handbook of Social Identity Research, 307-325. B2 Book section -
Intergenerational Transmission of Institutional Distrust: The Aftermath of Transnational Oppression of Ingrian Refugees After World War II
Kähäri, Outi; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2025, Alenius, Kari; Kaubrys, Saulius; Zakšauskienė, Inga, Aspects of everyday life in Lithuania and Finland in the early 20th century, 289-307. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Työyhteisön vastaanottavuus ja toimivat käytännöt – Näin rakennamme hyvinvointia monimuotoisessa työelämässä
Vanhanen, Sari; Turjanmaa, Elina, 2025, Mobile Futures. D4 Published development or research report or study