Anitta Kynsilehto

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. 

Editor-in-chief in Kosmopolis: Finnish Journal in Peace and Conflict Research and World Politics (with Eeva Puumala and Leena Vastapuu, 2022-2025). Associate editor in Frontiers Human Dynamics: Refugees and Conflicts (since 2019).

My research encompasses global mobility, different forms and practices of solidarity and resistance, and the concept and practical implications of intersectionality. In my current work, I focus increasingly on mobilities in the so-called Global South and in possibilities and forms of decolonizing knowledge production.

Mobility, solidarity, politics, peace, resistance

I received my doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tampere in 2011. Alongside Tapri, I have worked at Institute for Advanced Social Research (UTA) and Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

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.