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Anitta Kynsilehto

Senior Research Fellow, New Social Research
Tampere University
phone number+358503187595
City Centre Campus

About me

Senior Research Fellow (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

Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kesken jäänyt dekolonisaatio ja turvattomuus Länsi-Afrikassa

Translated title of the contribution: The coup d’état belt in Africa:: Halted decolonization and insecurity in West AfricaMaiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleGeneral public

Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kansainvälisten instituutioiden heikkous ja ihmisten liikkuvuuden välineellistäminen osana kolonialismin jatkumoa

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 colonialismMaiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 28 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleGeneral public

Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration

Kynsilehto, A., 28 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientificpeer-review

Paperittomien henkilöiden sosiaaliset oikeudet Suomessa

Translated title of the contribution: Undocumented persons' access to social rights in FinlandKatisko, 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)

Research output: Book/ReportCommissioned 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/ReportCommissioned report

Poliittisen ja henkilökohtaisen suhde muuttuvassa maailmassa

Translated title of the contribution: Relationship between the political and the personal in a changing worldPuumala, E., Vastapuu, L. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 Jun 2023, In: Kosmopolis. 53, 2, p. 3-6 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientific

Toisin tietäminen ja toivo rauhanomaisesta tulevaisuudesta

Translated title of the contribution: Knowing otherwise and the hope for a peaceful futurePuumala, E., Kynsilehto, A. & Vastapuu, L., 3 Apr 2023, In: Kosmopolis. 53, 1, p. 3-8 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientific

Forced displacement crisis amidst the war in Ukraine

Kynsilehto, A., 12 Apr 2022, In: Alusta!. 12.4.2022

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleGeneral public

Migration

Kynsilehto, A., 10 Mar 2022, Foundations of International Relations. McGlinchey, S. (ed.). London, p. 219-232

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterScientificpeer-review

Muuttuva maailma ja Ukrainan sodan globaalit ulottuvuudet

Translated title of the contribution: World in flux and the global dimensions of the war in UkrainePuumala, E., Vastapuu, L. & Kynsilehto, A., 14 Dec 2022, In: Kosmopolis. 52, 4, p. 3-7 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientific