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Trust begins in the everyday: co-creating a policy brief on migrant mothers’ experiences
Stay-at-home mother and co-researcher Lily Chan and project researcher Liselott Sundbäck teamed up to explore what trust really looks like for migrant mothers in Finland — and why small acts of care inside institutions can make all the difference.
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Reflections on Trust and Information from The Migration Conference 2025
25.9.2025 Khadijah Kainat This summer I had the privilege of attending The Migration Conference 2025 (TMC 2025) in London, held from 11 to 17 June. The gathering brought together migration scholars, policymakers, and community practitioners from around the world. Among its many insightful panels, one overarching theme that deeply resonated with me was the dynamic…
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Burning questions in participatory research
Participatory research in migration studies raises key ethical and methodological questions. At the Nordic Migration Research Conference, scholars discussed the unpredictability and ethical challenges of these methods. They also explored arts-based approaches to build trust and called for better integration of artistic outputs into academic analysis and reporting.
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Brains and hands: The commodification of immigration to Finland
Finland often fares positively in global rankings concerning key measurements of human developments, mostly on those concerning an equal, stable, and democratic society. Thus, Finland ranks as the most stable and one of the freest countries as well as luring international visibility by being consecutively ranked as the happiest country in the world. At the…