Aura Lounasmaa

Post-doctoral researcher, Space and Political Agency Research Group

Doná, G., Lounasmaa, A. and Squire, C. (2026) De-bordering higher education: refugees, universities and social justice. Bristol: Policy Press.  

Lounasmaa, A., Kallio, K. P. and Häkli, J. (submitted, under review) Adult migrant educational spaces as arrival infrastructures: assimilation, work life orientation, and social belonging. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.  

Häkli, J., Kallio,. K. P., Lounasmaa, A. and Ruez, D. (2026) Between Welcome and Exclusion: Discretion in Arrival Infrastructures. Article for Geopolitics special issue: “Geographies of Discretionary Power in Spaces and Politics of International Migration” (ed. Malene Jacobsen and Austin Crane) 

Lounasmaa, A. and Iglesias Ortiz, A. (accepted for publication) Echoing the borderscape: working with migrant stories in Calais and Mexico-US border. In Moran, L., Kovacic, T. and Prieto Blanco P. (eds) Voice in Biographical Narrative Research. Routledge.   

Lounasmaa, A., Kallio, K. P., and Häkli, J. (2026). Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography. Social & Cultural Geography, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2026.2629852 

Andrews, M., Davis, M., Esin, G., Harrison, B., Hydén, L-C., Hydén, M., Lounasmaa, A. and Squire, C. 2025. Narrative Research: research methods. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350319035. 

Kallio, K. P., Häkli, J., & Lounasmaa, A. (2025). Embodiment and dignity: Asylum migrants’ experiences of (mis)recognised personhood in everyday encounters. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251382864  

Lounasmaa, A., Masserano, E., Quintero, S., Kim, Charles, Mordi, J., Makuyana, T. Achola, E. and Fernando, A. 2024. Writing Collaboratively in a Lockdown: Building Connections in Online Writing Groups with Refugees, Migrants and Local Communities. In: Moran, L., Dooly, Z. (eds) Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19. Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54442-2_18  

Oddy, J., Harewood, M., Masserano, E., and Lounasmaa, A. 2022. Experiences of forced migration: learning for educators and learners: a report, International Review of Psychiatry, pp.1-8, DOI:10.1080/09540261.2022.2096403   

Lounasmaa, A., Masserano, E., Harewood M., and Oddy. J. 2022. Strategies against everyday bordering in universities: the Open Learning Initiatives. In: Cantat, Cook and Rajaram (eds) Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees. Oxford: Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/CantatOpening/CantatOpening_18.pdf  

Lounasmaa, A., Esin, C. and Hughes, C. 2020. Decolonisation, Representation, and Ethics in Visual Life Stories from the Jungle. in: Dodd, S. (ed.) Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods Vol: 5 Emerald Publishing Limited. pp. 11-28 Decolonisation, Representation, and Ethics in Visual Life Stories from the Jungle | Emerald Insight  

Lounasmaa, A. 2020. Refugees in Neoliberal Universities. in: Crimmins, G. (ed.) Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy: Higher Education, Aspiration and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan.   

Esin, C. and Lounasmaa, A. 2020. Narrative and ethical (in)action: creating spaces of resistance with refugee-storytellers in the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 23 (4), pp. 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1723202   

Hall, T., Lounasmaa, A. and Squire, C. 2019. From Margin to Centre? Practising New Forms of European Politics and Citizenship in the Calais ‘Jungle’. in: Birey, T., Cantat, C., Maczynska, E. and Sevinin, E. (ed.) Challenging the Political Across Borders: Migrants’ and Solidarity Struggles Central European University. pp. 99-128, Hall et al., 2019.pdf (uel.ac.uk)  

Lounasmaa, A. 2016. Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women’s activism in Morocco. in Schwabenland C., Lange, C., Onyx, J. & Nakagawa, S. (eds) The role of CSOs in women’s emancipation: challenging or reinforcing the status quo? Policy Press 

Brannlund, Kovacic and Lounasmaa. 2013. ‘Trialogue on narrative research and translation’, Narrative Works, 3(2) autumn 2013 [available at https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/21469/0]