Saara Koikkalainen
Senior Researcher
Cultural encounters, mobilities and borders (BOMOCULT)
Karelian Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
saara.koikkalainen@uef.fi | +358 50 314 1246
I work as a university researcher in the Cultural encounters, mobilities and borders (CULTCHANGE) -profile area (2020-2023). My research focuses on various mobility phenomana in Europe, such as on the experiences of Nordic migrants in London during the Brexit era and mobility caused by the war in Ukraine. This research has also been funded by the Kone foundation, the Alfred Kordelinin Foundation and the Kansan sivistysrahasto -foundation. My PhD (University of Lapland 2013) examined the labour market experiences of highly skilled Finns in the European labour markets. I have published also on migration decision making, the labour market position of return migrants, intra-European mobility and Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland.
Publications
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Die öffentliche Meinung über Migration und die Rolle der Medien im Kontext der „Europäischen Flüchtlingskrise“
Koikkalainen, Saara; Pyrhönen, Niko; Wahlbeck, Östen. Teoksessa: Franzke, Jochen; Ruano de la Fuente, José M(toim.) , 2023. Politik zur lokalen Integration von Migranten. s. 307-333. Springer -
Finland country report. Government responses to increased influx of protection seekers in 2015/16 and 2022/23
Koikkalainen, Saara; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary; Virkkunen, Joni. 2023. NIBR Working Paper. . Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research NIBR, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University -
Finnlands Einwanderungspolitik: Staatliche Ziele, lokale Lösungen
Koikkalainen, Saara. Teoksessa: Franzke, Jochen; Ruano de la Fuente, José M(toim.) , 2023. Politik zur lokalen Integration von Migranten. s. 59-78. Springer -
Governance and policy changes during times of high influxes of protection seekers. A comparative governance and policy analysis in eight European countries, 2015-June 2023
Hernes, Vilde; Danielsen, Åsne Øygard; Tvedt, Kristian; Staver, Anne Balke; Tronstad, Kristian; Łukasiewicz, Karolina; Pachocka, Marta; Yeliseyeu, Andrei; Casu, Laura; Zschomler, Silke; Berg, Mette Louise; Engler, Marcus; Nowicka, Magdalena; Koikkalainen, Saara; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary; Virkkunen, Joni; Kazepov, Yuri; Berthelot, Brice; Franz, Yvonne. 2023. NIBR Report. . Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) -
Migration Strategies at the Time of a Crisis: Asylum Applicants in Finland
Virkkunen, Joni; Koikkalainen, Saara; Piipponen, Minna. Teoksessa: Jakobson, Mari-Liis; Vetik, Raivo; King, Russell; Moroşanu, Laura(toim.) , 2023. Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times. s. 41-55. Springer -
Brexit ja perheet: mikä muuttui Ison-Britannian EU-eron jälkeen?
Koikkalainen, Saara. 2022. Migration. 48: 28–31 -
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants
Koikkalainen, Saara; Lulle, Aija; King, Russell; Leon-Himmelstine, Carmen; Szkudlarek, Aleksandra. 2022. Comparative migration studies. 10: . 26