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Author:   Laura Assmuth ,  Marit Aure (UIT The Arctic University of Norway) ,  Marina Hakkarainen (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) ,  Pihla Maria Siim (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
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9781032150949

ISBN 10:   1032150947
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   14 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines across Borders Section I: Everyday Emotions 2 Overcoming the Burden of Distance: Emotions in the Family Lives of Estonian Men Working in Finland 3 Place Attachment and Translocal Ties: Adult Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden Commentary on Chapters 2 and 3 Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and Connection Section II: Gender and Inequalities 4 Negotiating Same-sex Family Space between Finland and Russia 5 From Estonia to Finland: Women’s Stories of Inequality, Survival and Relatedness Commentary on Chapters 4 and 5 Feeling Translocalism: Stretched and Connective Emotions through Time and Space Section III: Materialities 6 Representing Translocal Taste Buds: An Exploration of Photography as a Method 7 Claiming Translocal Place among Romanian Roma Migrants in Helsinki: Infrastructures, Urban Encounters and Displacement Commentary on Chapters 6 and 7 The World Constituted through Photos Section IV: Family Values and Integration 8 Lines of Differentiation and Connection in Translocal Lithuanian Lives: Stories about the Norwegian Child Welfare Service 9 Integration, the Generation Gap and Continuity in Russian-speaking Translocal Families in Finland Commentary on Chapters 8 and 9 Family Values and Integration Narrated, Negotiated and Politicised Index

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Laura Assmuth is Professor Emerita of Social and Public Policy, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests are migration and mobility, borders, translocal family and inequality. Assmuth is an experienced ethnographer, with fieldwork in several European countries. She has led several international research projects resulting in publications in many languages. Marit Aure is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Her research interests encompass international and national migration and integration, gender, masculinity, employment-related mobility, (coastal) rural and urban development, just cities and art-based action-oriented research. Aure engages in participatory research. Marina Hakkarainen is an independent researcher living in Finland and a fellow of the European University at St. Petersburg. She is a candidate of sciences in history, specialising in ethnology and anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research among indigenous Siberian communities, rural localities in European Russia and Jewish communities in Ukraine. Her recent research interests include migration and mobility, post-Soviet subjectivities and economic relations. Pihla Maria Siim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Migration Institute, Finland, also affiliated to the University of Tartu, Estonia. She has worked on issues related to children and mobility and translocal families and intimacy, mainly in the Estonian–Finnish context. She has also published on folkloristic fieldwork practices, family storytelling and storycrafting method.

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