BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-1@blogit.utu.fi DTSTART:20240412T100000Z DTEND:20240412T120000Z DTSTAMP:20240410T051255Z URL:https://blogit.utu.fi/kultva/events/structural-racism-and-migration/ SUMMARY:Structural racism and migration   DESCRIPTION:Time: 12.4.2024\, 13:00-15:00 (EEST / UTC+03:00)\n\nPlace: Zoom (https://utu.zoom.us/j/62202813771)\n\n\n\nNB! There is also a possibilit y to follow the seminar together in Publicum (Assistentinkatu 7)\, seminar room 399 (University of Turku\, Finland).\n\n\n\nThe online multidiscipli nary seminar series Current Intersections of Culture\, Language and Wellb eing continues!\n\n\n\nJoin us for an exploration of a pressing question in today’s landscape – structural racism and migration. This fourth w ebinar of the series will dive into two perspectives on issues which have been contentious for the past couple of years. Finland prides itself in be ing the happiest country for a number of years in a row and a model countr y for equality\, despite having numerous reports and studies on the state of racism and inequality. What are then issues and phenomena that may be h idden beneath the facade of the model country for equality and the world ’s happiest country? For this session we have two presentations: First\,  Quivine Ndomo will talk about discriminative structures that shape the lives of non-EU citizens and so-called “second generation migrants”\, a presentation which is based on her PhD dissertation. Our second presenta tion is by Johanna Ennser-Kananen\, who will discuss how language and rac ialization interact and how we can move toward culturally sustaining pedag ogies in Finland. We have reserved plenty of time for discussion and quest ions and we welcome an open and respectful discussion!\n\n\n\nThe seminar series Current Intersections of Culture\, Language and Wellbeing is a mu ltidisciplinary online seminar organized by three networks from the Univer sity of Turku\, Finland: the Cultural Interaction Researcher Network KULTV A\, the Centre of Language and Wellbeing (LaWe)\, and the Research Center for Culture and Health. The aim of the seminar is to foster international networking and research collaboration between social sciences\, humanities \, and linguistics\, focusing on topics related to health and wellbeing.\n \n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nQuivine Ndomo (University of Jyväskylä\, Fi nland)\n\n\n\nThe bold faces of discrimination and racism in Finland: A st ructural perspective\n\n\n\nIn my presentation\, I will discuss empirical illustrations of blatant discriminative structural processes and norms tha t shape the labour market integration experiences of Third-country nationa l migrants in Finland. My objective is to draw attention to critical struc tures such as Finland’s migration regime\, focus on some of their functi ons that are otherwise missed\, and show how they affect the lives of non- EU/EEA citizens\, and people who are discriminatively perceived and treate d as non-EU citizens such as the so-called “second generation migrants ”. The presentation is based on my doctoral dissertation\, which is base d on 51 biographical narrative interviews with 44 individuals who migrated to Finland for studies\, and 7 for family and international protection pu rposes. 45 participants were Black Africans.\n\n\n\nIn the whole group dis cussion\, I will be happy to have webinar participants bring in their take s on the intersection of culture and well-being specifically\, but also la nguage where that is possible.\n\n\n\nJohanna Ennser-Kananen (University of Jyväskylä\, Finland)\n\n\n\nMy home is my language: Towards culturall y sustaining pedagogies in Finland\n\n\n\nHow do language and racializatio n interact? Why does this interaction matter in language education? And ho w does all of this relate to wellbeing? In this presentation\, I discuss t hese questions based on examples from an adult basic education context in rural Finland. Data thus stems from my long-term engagement with a communi ty college that serves adult students who are forced migrants from mostly African and West Asian countries. I understand wellbeing broadly as strivi ng towards social justice\, educational equity\, and belonging\, and show how these are challenged if language use/learning orient towards white and Eurocentric norms. I also provide examples of language use as a means of resistance and home making. Together\, these examples make an argument for implementing culturally sustaining pedagogies in Finnish educational cont exts.\n\n\n\n———————\n\n\n\nQuivine Ndomo is a University t eacher at the University of Jyväskylä and a project researcher on the JU STMIG project funded by the European Commission’s DG Employment\, and th e SINKING ISLANDS project funded by the KONE foundation. My research inter prets and problematises the labour market structures for migrant workers i n the EU from a social constructivist lens\, using multiple theories inclu ding theories of citizenship rights\, welfare\, disaggregated human agency \, social construction\, and justice among others.\n\n\n\nJohanna Ennser-K ananen is an Associate Professor of English and Academy Research Fellow a t the University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Language and Communicati on Studies. Her work focuses on linguistically and culturally sustaining l anguage and teacher education\, particularly on epistemic justice in educa tional contexts. This entails the deconstructing of white\, Eurocentric\, and anthropocentric norms and the search for more sustainable and communit y-guided ways of being an academic.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://blogit.utu.fi/kultva/wp-content/uploads/ sites/141/2024/04/Current-intersections-of-culture-language-and-wellbeing. png LOCATION:https://utu.zoom.us/j/62202813771 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR