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Biography
My research has revolved around the migration welfare state nexus, focusing on issues of citizenship, power, social justice and street-level institutional encounters.
After my doctoral degree in Social Policy in 2007, I was appointed Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Helsinki (2007-2017). Since 2018, I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Åbo Akademi University. I held an Academy Research Fellowship for the project "Citizenisation in the local welfare state: migrant mothers' everyday life in restructuring urban settings" (2013-2018) and I am the project leader of the ongoing project "Ordering the 'Migrant Family': Power Asymmetry Work and Citizenization in Welfare Professional Bureaucracies" (2017–2023, Academy of Finland). I am affiliated with the Center of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care at the University of Helsinki. In 2015-2016 I was a visiting scholar at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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SOSKIELI: Flerspråkighet och språklig utsatthet i socialarbetets digitaliserande miljöer
Nordberg, C., Kulmala, M., Kara, H., Heino, E., Granholm, C., Olakivi, A. & Lassila, A.
01/11/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Ministry / Government Agency
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CoE AgeCare: Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care Research Group 3 Migration, Care and Ageing
Wrede, S., Nordberg, C., Olakivi, A., Buchert, U., Kouvonen, A., Riitaoja, A., May, V., Kemppainen, L., Asikainen, A., Pirhonen, J. P. T., Harju, M. E., Laakkonen, R., Blomqvist, K., Simola, A., Laisi, I., Safarov, N., Pietilä, I., Begum, S., Takahashi, E., Avdeeva, A., Shindo, R. & Niemi, M.
01/01/18 → 31/12/25
Project: Academy of Finland/Other Research Councils
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MigraFam: Ordering the "Migrant Family": Power Asymmetry Work and Citizenization in Restructuring Welfare Professional Bureaucracies
Nordberg, C., Jäppinen, M., Kara, H., Riitaoja, A. & Simola, A.
01/01/17 → 31/08/23
Project: Academy of Finland/Other Research Councils
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Professional expertise in the multilingual landscape of welfare service work
01/01/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Foundation
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The Shaping of Occupational Subjectivities of Migrant Care Workers: A Multi-Sited Analysis of
Wrede, S., Nordberg, C., Olakivi, A., Saukkonen, M. & Näre, L.
01/09/11 → 31/08/15
Project: Academy of Finland/Other Research Councils
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The ethical performance of access and consent in ethnographic research on social work encounters with migrant-background service users
Kara, H., Jäppinen, M., Nordberg, C. & Riitaoja, A-L., 21 Apr 2022, In: Qualitative Social Work. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Unfolding occupational boundary work: Public service interpreting in social services for structurally vulnerable migrant populations in Finland
Nordberg, C. & Kara, H., 2022, In: Just. Journal of Language Rights & Minorities. 1, 1-2, p. 137-162Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Neoliberal ‘flexibility’ and the discursive incorporation of migrant labour in public eldercare in Finland
Wrede, S., Näre, L., Olakivi, A. & Nordberg, C., 29 Mar 2021, The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration. Mora, C. & Piper, N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 253-268 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Siirtolaisuus ja moninaisuus sosiaalityön yliopistokoulutuksen ja sosionomi (AMK) -koulutuksen opetussuunnitelmissa
Riitaoja, A-L., Jäppinen, M., Kara, H. & Nordberg, C., 2021, In: Janus: Sosiaalipolitiikan Ja Sosiaalityön Tutkimuksen Aikakauslehti. 29, 3, p. 267 285 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Kuka kuuluu perheeseen? Perheen rakentumista ohjaavat hallinnan suhteet hyvinvointivaltion ammattilaisten ja maahan muuttaneiden asiakkaiden kohtaamisissa
Jäppinen, M., Kara, H., Nordberg, C. & Riitaoja, A-L., 2020, In: Tutkiva Sosiaalityö. 29-41, 13, p. 29 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
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Activities
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Evaluaton committee for Heidi Katz's PhD thesis
Petri Salo (Examiner), Katri Hansell (Examiner) & Camilla Nordberg (Examiner)
8 Dec 2022Activity: Evaluation, assessment or examination › Examination
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Unfolding occupational boundary work: Public service interpreting in social services for structurally vulnerable migrants in Finland
Camilla Nordberg (Speaker) & Hanna Kara (Speaker)
16 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference presentation
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Power asymmetries and agenda setting in social service encounters with migrant families
Hanna Kara (Contributor), Camilla Nordberg (Speaker), Anna-Leena Riitaoja (Speaker) & Maija Jäppinen (Speaker)
22 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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Power and temporality in migrant encounters in the street-level welfare state
Hanna Kara (Speaker) & Camilla Nordberg (Speaker)
28 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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Discourses of migration, diversity and transnational families in social work education and literature
Anna-Leena Riitaoja (Speaker), Maija Jäppinen (Contributor), Hanna Kara (Contributor) & Camilla Nordberg (Contributor)
11 Jan 2021 → 14 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation