Anitta Kynsilehto
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
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kansainvälisten instituutioiden heikkous ja ihmisten liikkuvuuden välineellistäminen osana kolonialismin jatkumoa
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General 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 journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Paperittomien henkilöiden sosiaaliset oikeudet Suomessa
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
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Toisin tietäminen ja toivo rauhanomaisesta tulevaisuudesta
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Forced displacement crisis amidst the war in Ukraine
Kynsilehto, A., 12 Apr 2022, In: Alusta!. 12.4.2022Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Migration
Kynsilehto, A., 10 Mar 2022, Foundations of International Relations. McGlinchey, S. (ed.). London, p. 219-232Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Muuttuva maailma ja Ukrainan sodan globaalit ulottuvuudet
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific