Bio

Seija Jalagin (PhD, History) works as a University Lecturer at the University of Oulu and is an associate professor of the history of cultural interaction (docent) at the University of Turku. Her research interests include forced migration, migration regimes and memories of refugeedom, gender, religion and cultural representations. In Mobile Futures, WP5, she studies Finnish interwar refugee policy and migrant integration. Of particular interest in her research are work, livelihood and the role of family in the refugee regime. What kind of perspectives could this chapter of migrant and integration history offer for contemporary immigration policy?