Anitta Kynsilehto
About me
Associate Professor (tenure-track) working at Tampere Peace Research Institute. Docent in Ethnic relations at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
Responsibilities
Editor-in-chief in Kosmopolis: Finnish Journal of Peace and Conflict Research and World Politics (with Eeva Puumala and Leena Vastapuu). Associate editor in Frontiers Human Dynamics: Refugees and Conflict (since 2019).
Fields of expertise
My academic passion centers around exploring and understanding global mobilities and possibilities for enhancing social justice, bearing in mind the goals of globally responsible research and praxis.
Research topics
Mobility, solidarity, intersectionality, decoloniality
Selected publications
Kynsilehto, Anitta (2023) Making do as a migrant in Morocco: Between formal recognition and true integration. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 21(2): 158–170.
Penttinen, Elina & Anitta Kynsilehto (2017) Gender and Mobility: A Critical Introduction. Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield. (Korean translation published in 2021)
Kynsilehto, Anitta (2017) Mobilities, Politics and Solidarities. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 29(1): 48–54.
Kynsilehto, Anitta & Eeva Puumala (2015) Persecution as Experience and as Knowledge. The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews. International Studies Perspectives 16(4): 446–462.
Kynsilehto, Anitta (2011) Negotiating intersectionality in highly educated migrant Maghrebi women’s life stories. Environment and Planning A 43(7): 1547–1561.
Latest publications
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile
Kynsilehto, A., 14 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: GEOPOLITICS.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Tarvitsevatko naapurit aitoja? Rajat, ihmisten liikkuvuus ja militarisaatio
Kynsilehto, A., 13 Mar 2024, Sodan pauloissa. Militarismi suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa. Hast, S. & Kotilainen, N. (eds.). p. 267–276Translated title of the contribution :Do neighbours need fences? Borders, mobility and militarization Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kesken jäänyt dekolonisaatio ja turvattomuus Länsi-Afrikassa
Maiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.Translated title of the contribution :The coup d’état belt in Africa:: Halted decolonization and insecurity in West Africa Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kansainvälisten instituutioiden heikkous ja ihmisten liikkuvuuden välineellistäminen osana kolonialismin jatkumoa
Maiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 28 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.Translated title of the contribution :The coup d’état belt in Africa: International institutions’ weakness and instrumentalization of human mobility as parts of continuums of colonialism Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Kaupungit, rauha ja (maailman)politiikka
Puumala, E., Kynsilehto, A. & Vastapuu, L., 23 Oct 2023, In: Kosmopolis. 53, 3, p. 3-8 6 p.Translated title of the contribution :Cities, peace and (world) politics Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Liikkuvuuden politiikasta ja ylitysyrityksistä Eurooppa-linnakkeen rajoilla
Kynsilehto, A., 13 Dec 2023, In: Alusta!.Translated title of the contribution :On the politics of mobility and crossing attempts at the borders of the Fortress Europe Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration
Kynsilehto, A., 2023, In: Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. 21, 2, p. 158-170Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Paperittomien henkilöiden sosiaaliset oikeudet Suomessa
Katisko, M., Annala, I., Kalm-Akubardia, M., Kynsilehto, A., Marucco, C., Pehkonen-Elmi, T. & Viljanen, K., 6 Feb 2023, Helsinki. 121 p. (Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja; no. 6)Translated title of the contribution :Undocumented persons' access to social rights in Finland Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Peace, security and democracy support in West Africa
Kynsilehto, A., Agyei, P. & Maiche, K., 4 Apr 2023, 2023 ed. Helsinki. 36 p. (Publications of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; no. 2)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Poliittisen ja henkilökohtaisen suhde muuttuvassa maailmassa
Puumala, E., Vastapuu, L. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 Jun 2023, In: Kosmopolis. 53, 2, p. 3-6 4 p.Translated title of the contribution :Relationship between the political and the personal in a changing world Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific