Sanna Mustasaari

Sanna Mustasaari

Senior Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

LL. D. Senior Researcher (Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow)

Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Law School

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LL.D Sanna Mustasaari is Senior Researcher at the Center of Law and Welfare, UEF Law School. Her on-going research project Children Abroad: A Relational Analysis of Finnish Child Protection and Welfare in Transnational Contexts [CARELA], Academy of Finland 2020-2024) adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study children’s rights to protection in various transnational settings. She is the PI of the NOS-HS exploratory workshop series Transnational Childhoods, Transnational Rights (https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/group/nos-hs-workshop-series-transnational-childhoods-transnational-rights-nordic-responses-to-global-challenges-in-the-field-of-child-protection/ ) and leads a subproject in a Consortium that focuses on cross-border child protection (SUOJATIE, 2022-2024).

Mustasaari’s PhD “Rethinking recognition: Transnational families and belonging in law” (2017) studied the diverse forms of the legality and recognition of family relationships in different normative systems. Her main research interests include religion and family law, human rights law, private international law, migration law, children’s rights, trans rights, relational legal theory, feminist legal theory, rights in context, and migration and transnationalism studies.

 

Research groups

Publications

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

  1. S Mustasaari. Forthcoming in 2023. ‘Challenges of cross-border child protection between Eastern and Western Europe: Russia and Central Eastern Europe in the files of the Finnish Central Authority’, in D Wiedemann, K Duden and J Antomo (eds), Changing families, changing family law -Convergence or divergence in Europe? (Intersentia)
  2. Mustasaari, S. 2023. ’Bileet! Feministinen teoria, relationaalinen autonomia ja nuorten seksuaalioikeudet’. [Party! Feminist theory, relational autonomy and sexual rights of adolescents] In: Maija Aalto-Heinilä, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen & Paul Tiensuu (eds.) Itsemääräämisoikeus. Vastapaino. Available at osoitteessa https://blogit.vastapaino.fi/oa-kirjat/itsemaaraamisoikeus
  3. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘Children abroad: A relational analysis of cross-border child protection cases in the Finnish Central Authority’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 34:4. Available at https://www.familylaw.co.uk/docs/pdf-files/children-abroad-cflq-2023-1.pdf?sfvrsn=a4ebc9a8_2 .
  4. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2023. Islamic Family Law(s) in Finland: Reflections on Freedom of Religion from the Perspective of Well-being’, Temenos – Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 58:2, 217-238. Available at https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/113886
  5. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘Nuoret somalitaustaiset muslimit ja islamilainen perheoikeus.’ [Young Somali Muslims and Islamic Family Law] In: Johanna Konttori & Teemu Pauha (eds.). Suomalaiset muslimit. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
  6. Nieminen, K., Hurri, S., Soirila, U. & Mustasaari, S., 2021, ’Uusi oikeustapausanalyysi’ in Nieminen, K. & Lähteenmäki, N. (eds.) Empiirinen oikeustutkimus. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 233-224.
  7. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2021. ‘Governing Divorce Practices of Somali Finnish Muslims: Does Religious Literacy Matter?’ in T. Sakaranaho, T. Aarrevaara and J. Konttori (eds.) Challenges of Religious Literacy. Springer.
  8. Mustasaari, S. 2020. ‘Affective constructions of justice: ISIS-families and the law in the Finnish public debate,’ Oñati Socio-Legal Series 11(4), pp. 1036–1065. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1198
  9. Mustasaari, S. 2020 ‘Finnish Children or “Cubs of the Caliphate”? Jurisdiction and State ‘Response-ability’ in Human Rights Law, Private International Law and the Finnish Child Welfare Act,’ Oslo Law Review 1/2020, 22-45. Available at: https://www.idunn.no/doi/full/10.18261/ISSN.2387-3299-2020-01-03
  10. Mustasaari, S. & Vora, V. 2019. ‘Muslim marriages, wellbeing and the law’, in Marja Tiilikainen, Mulki Al-Sharmani, & Sanna Mustasaari (eds.) Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender, pp. 39-58. London, New York: Routledge.
  11. Tiilikainen, M., Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2019. ‘Introduction: Wellbeing, family life, and transnational Muslims in the West’ in Marja Tiilikainen, Mulki Al-Sharmani & Sanna Mustasaari (eds.) Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender, pp. 1-21. London, New York: Routledge. Available at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/312101
  12. Nieminen, K. & Mustasaari S. 2019. ‘Narratives of Belonging: Religion, Gendered body and claims of autonomy and authenticity,’ in Anne Macduff & Dorota Gozdecka (eds.) Beyond the Gendered Subject – The Provocation of the ‘Post’ in Law and Feminist Thought, 3. chapter. London, New York: Routledge.
  13. Mustasaari, S. & Al-Sharmani, M. 2018. ‘Between ‘Official’ and ‘Unofficial’: Discourses and Practices of Muslim Marriage Conclusion in Finland’, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, rwy029, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwy029
  14. Al-Sharmani, M., Mustasaari, S. & Ismail, A. 2018.’Uskonnollinen perheriitojen sovittelu suomalaisissa moskeijoissa: kehittyviä rooleja ja muovautuvia käytäntöjä,’ in Johanna Hiitola, Merja Anis & Kati Turtiainen (eds.) Maahanmuutto, palvelut ja hyvinvointi. Kohtaamisissa kehittyviä käytäntöjä. [Migration, services and welfare. Evolving practices in encounters] Vastapaino. Finnish translation of previously published article ’Faith-based Family Dispute Resolution in Finnish Mosques: Unfolding Roles and Evolving Practices’.
  15. Mustasaari, S. 2017. ‘Ruling on belonging: Transnational marriages in Nordic immigration laws,’ Migration Letters 14:1, pp. 25-37.
  16. Al-Sharmani, M., Tiilikainen, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2017. ‘Editorial: Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Marriage, Generation and Gender in Multiple Spheres,’ Migration Letters 14:1, pp. 1-10.
  17. Al-Sharmani, M., Mustasaari, S. & Ismail, A. 2017. ‘Faith-based Family Dispute Resolution in Finnish Mosques: Unfolding Roles and Evolving Practices,’ in Samia Bano (ed), Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration, pp. 270-291. Waltham, MA, USA: Brandeis University Press.
  18. Mustasaari, S. 2016. ‘Best interests of the child in family reunification – A citizenship test disguised?’ in Griffiths, A., S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, (eds.) Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections, pp. 124-145, Abingdon: Routledge.
  19. Mustasaari, S. 2015. ‘Law, Agency and the Intimate Relationships of Young People: from Rights to Duties and Back?’ in Dorota Gozdecka & Magdalena Kmak (eds.) Europe at the Edge of Pluralism, pp. 133–146. Cambridge: Intersentia.
  20. Mustasaari, S. and Koulu, S. 2015. ‘State Curriculum and Parents’ Convictions under the European Convention on Human Rights,’ in M. Jänterä-Jareborg (ed.) The Child’s Interests in Conflict: The Intersections between Society, Family, Faith and Culture, pp. 55–72. Intersentia.
  21. Mustasaari, S. 2015. ‘The “nuclear family paradigm” as a marker of rights and belonging in transnational families,’ Social Identities 21:4, pp. 359–372.

Non-refereed scientific articles

  1. Mustasaari, S. Forthcoming in 2022. ‘Editorial – Transnational Child Protection’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 2022:4.
  2. Mustasaari, S. & Nieminen, K., 2021, ‘Law and emotions – new paths for research?’ No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice.18, i-x.
  3. Mustasaari, S. 2021 ‘Best Interests and Joint Governance: Tracing Slowly Emerging Diversity in Finnish Family Law’ in M. Foblets & N. Yassari (eds.) Family Law and Cultural Diversity. Springer.
  4. Mustasaari, S. 2019. ‘Extra-Judicial Muslim Divorces and Family Mediation in the Nordic Countries: What Role is There for the Welfare State?’ in K. Boele-Woelki (ed.) Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe, pp. 285-312. Cambridge: Intersentia.
  5. Nieminen, K., & Mustasaari, S. 2019. Editorial: Good Judgment? No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice, (16).
  6. Karjalainen, K., Mikkilä, T., Mustasaari, S., Salminen, K. & Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, A. 2018. Lainopillinen ja yhteiskuntatieteellisesti painottunut tutkimus: Yhtä perhettä. [Legal-dogmatic research and socio-legal research: One family] Lakimies 6/2018.
  7. Mustasaari, S. 2016. ‘CEDAW and the Riddle of Diversity: Can Culture, Traditions or Religion Justify Economic Inequalities Embedded in Family Laws?’ in M. Jänterä-Jareborg & H. Tigroudja (eds.) Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination / Les droits des femmes et l’élimination de la discrimination, pp. 391-420. Leiden: Brill.
  8. Mustasaari, S., A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen & A. Griffiths. 2016. ’Identities and Intersections: Critical Perspectives on the Person of the Law,’ in Griffiths, A., S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, (eds.) Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections, pp. 3-23, Abingdon: Routledge.
  9. Mustasaari, S. 2013. ‘Nahkatakkisia tyttöjä ja neitsythäkkejä – “normaalius” nuorten seksuaalioikeuksien määrittäjänä,’ [Girls in leather jackets and caged virgins – Defining the sexual rights of adolescents through “normality”] in S. Hakalehto-Wainio & L. Nieminen (eds.) Lapsen oikeudet murroksessa. Lakimiesliiton kustannus.
  10. Koulu, S. & Mustasaari, S. 2012. Kansainväliset lapsen huoltoa koskevat velvoitteet ja Suomen käytäntö,’ [International obligations of the state and Finnish praxis regarding children’s care and custody] in M. Mikkola and O. Khazova (eds.) Riita lapsen huollosta Suomessa ja Venäjällä. University of Helsinki, Forum Iuris, s. 35-55.
  11. Mustasaari, S. 2012. ‘KKO 2012:11 Isyyslain siirtymäsäännösten kanneaika,’[Case commentary] in P. Timonen (ed.) KKO:n ratkaisut kommentein 2012:1. Helsinki: Talentum.
  12. Mustasaari, S. 2008. ’Islamilainen perheoikeus Suomen oikeusjärjestelmässä’ [Islamic family law in the Finnish legal system] in Oikeustiede-Jurisprudentia XLI, the year book of the Finnish Lawyers’ Society.

Scientific books (monographs) and edited collections

  1. Edited Journal Special Issue. Forthcoming in 2022. ‘Transnational Child Protection,’ Child and Family Law Quarterly 2022:4, guest edited by Sanna Mustasaari et al.
  2. Edited Journal Special Issue. 2017. ‘Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Marriage, Generation and Gender in Multiple Spheres,’ Migration Letters 14:1, guest edited by Mulki Al-Sharmani, Marja Tiilikainen & Sanna Mustasaari.
  3. Mustasaari, S. 2017. Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Finland, Leiden: Brill.
  4. Edited volume: Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections. 2016. Abingdon: Routledge. Edited by A. Griffiths, S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen.
  5. Edited volume: Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender. 2019. Routledge. Edited by M. Tiilikainen, M. Al-Sharmani & S. Mustasaari.

Theses

  1. Mustasaari, S. 2017. Doctoral dissertation (article-based): Rethinking recognition: Transnational families and belonging in law. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.

Publications intended for the general public

  1. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘The issue of extraterritorial jurisdiction in the repatriation of children detained in Syrian camps: shortcomings in the ECtHR judgment in H.F. and Others v. France’ Strasbourg Observers blog, available at https://strasbourgobservers.com/2022/11/01/the-issue-of-extraterritorial-jurisdiction-in-the-repatriation-of-children-detained-in-syrian-camps-shortcomings-in-the-ecthr-judgment-in-h-f-and-others-v-france%EF%BF%BC/
  2. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ’Koillis-Syyrian leireillä olevien lasten ja äitien oikeudet esillä Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuimessa – H.F. ja muut vastaan Ranska’ [The rights of children and mothers in camps in North-East Syria are presented at the European Court of Human Rights – H.F. and others against France] Perustuslakiblogi 9.2022 https://perustuslakiblogi.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/sanna-mustasaari-koillis-syyrian-leireilla-olevien-lasten-ja-aitien-oikeudet-esilla-euroopan-ihmisoikeustuomioistuimessa-h-f-ja-muut-vastaan-ranska/
  3. Mustasaari, S. 2019. ’Al-Holin suomalaisnaiset ja -lapset kansainvälisen yksityisoikeuden näkökulmasta’ [Finnish women and children in the al-Hol camp from the perspective of private international law] Perustuslakiblogi12.2019 https://perustuslakiblogi.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/sanna-mustasaari-al-holin-suomalaisnaiset-ja-lapset-kansainvalisen-yksityisoikeuden-nakokulmasta/
  4. Mustasaari, S. & Al-Sharmani, M. 2018. ’Sharia-laki ymmärretään usein väärin – Vastakkainasettelu islamin normien ja Suomen lain välillä perustuu yksinkertaistuksiin’ [Op-ed: Sharia law is often misunderstood – The confrontation between Islamic norms and Finnish law is based on simplifications] Helsingin Sanomat 15.6.2018. https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000005719849.html

 

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