
JONI VIRKKUNEN
Research Manager
I work as Research Manager at the Karelian Institute. As the Director of the VERA Centre for Russian and Border Studies, I am also executive board member of the UEF's top-level research area Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters (BOMOCULT) and of the cross-faculty Doctoral Programme in Social and Cultural Encounters. My research relates to borders, border governance, cross-border cooperation, EU-Russian relations and transnational migration in Russian and post-Soviet contexts. I have been recently studying, for example, at the Northern Dimension policy and the regional impacts of EU-Russia relations, and 2015-2016 Arctic migration route through/from Russia to Finland. The latter I have been studying through Finnish and Russian migration and border policies, publicity and public debates of the migration / migration route, migrants' everyday insecurities, and informal practices such as corruption and criminality.
Contact info
Organization
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
joni.virkkunen@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 442 4469
Keywords
Research groups - UEF
PROJECTS - UEF
Publications
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Arktinen aukeaa - kapea turvallisuuskäsitys ja Venäjän muuttoliikkeet. Virkkunen, Joni; Piipponen, Minna / Muuttoliike murroksessa: metaforat, mielikuvat, merkitykset. 2021. 2021
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Virkkunen, Joni. 2021. Rajat, kansallisvaltio ja koronanationalismi Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja 133 3: 153-155. 2021
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Virkkunen, Joni; Piipponen, Minna. 2021. African Immigrants in Russia DEMIS. Demographic Research 1 1: 45-52. 2021
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Virkkunen, Joni. 2021. Tutkimusmatkailijana Venäjällä. Karjalainen. 06.09.2021. s.B4 2021
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Images of Finland, Europe and the West among asylum seekers. Virkkunen, Joni; Piipponen, Minna / Remapping Security on Europe's Northern Borders. 2021. 2021
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Maahanmuuttajien arjen turvattomuus Venäjällä ja arktinen reitti. Piipponen, Minna; Virkkunen, Joni / Arjen turvallisuus ja muuttoliikkeet. 2021. 2021
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Informal practices and the rule of law: Russia, migration and the 'Arctic route'. Virkkunen, Joni; Piipponen, Minna / Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. 2021. 2021
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Johdanto: Muuttoliikkeet arjen turvallisuuden tutkimuksen kohteena. Assmuth, Laura; Davydova-Minguet, Olga; Haverinen, Ville-Samuli; Kotilainen, Noora; Oivo, Teemu; Palander, Jaana; Pellander, Saara; Piipponen, Minna; Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa; Pöllänen, Pirjo; Rannikko, Anni; Sotkasiira, Tiina; Virkkunen, Joni / Arjen turvallisuus ja muuttoliikkeet. 2021. 2021
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Piipponen, Minna; Virkkunen, Joni. 2020. The Remigration of Afghan Immigrants from Russia Nationalities papers 48 4: 644-660. 2020
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Virkkunen, Joni. 2020. Bor'ba s rasprostraneniem virusa i zakrytie vnutrennih granic ES vo vremâ pandemii COVID-19: primer Finlândii. Baltic region 12 4: 83-102. 2020