Since the collapse of the Soviet system, many significant changes have occurred, not only in the former socialist countries, but also in western societies. One remarkable change is the mass of post-Soviet emigration from the former Soviet Union. In this article, we analyse the everyday welfare experienced by the Russian immigrant women living in the border area of Eastern Finland. We study the interrelation of family relations, the experienced welfare, transnational care, and work in the lives of Russian migrant women in North Karelia. According to the analysis, we argue that the welfare of Russian immigrant women is mainly produced by their family networks and precarious work.
Maailmanpolitiikan kehityskulkujen vaikutukset kohdistuvat Suomen venäjänkieliseen väestöön yhtäaikaisesti sekä Suomen että Venäjän valtiovallan toimien kautta. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme kuinka Suomen ja Venäjän valtioiden poliittinen diskurssi turvallistaa Suomen venäjänkielistä väestöä heidän ulkomaansidonnaisuuksiensa kautta. Aiheessa yhdistyvät kansalaisuuden normien, transnationaalisuuden ja turvallisuuspolitiikan kysymykset. Venäjällä koko 2000-luvun jatkunut diskursiivinen ja juridinen kehitys kuvaa epäluottamusta ulkomaita ja niihin suhteessa olevia kansalaisia kohtaan, mutta samalla valtio on aktiivisesti rakentanut Venäjälle lojaalisuutta vaativaa diasporapolitiikkaa. Suomessa eduskunta on vuosina 2017 ja 2019 kiristänyt kaksoiskansalaisten pääsyä valtion virkoihin, mihin johtaneita prosesseja tarkastelemme aloitetta ajaneen puolustusministerin blogikirjoitusten ja niissä viitattujen dokumenttien kautta. Havainnollistamme, kuinka ihmisten ulkomaansidonnaisuuksien turvallistaminen avaa laajoja mahdollisuuksia perusoikeuksiin puuttuviin toimenpiteisiin.
This article discusses public and mediatized memory politics concerning Word War II in Finland, particularly its transnational dimensions brought about by post-Soviet immigration from the former Soviet Union. Despite the ongoing multiculturalization of Finnish society, where Russian speakers have become the largest immigrant group, Finnish national identity is still constructed around the idea of national independence and its heroic defence. Finnish collective and public memory with its monuments and celebrations concentrates on the sacrifice the nation made for Finnish independence in the wars against the Soviet Union during 1939–1944. In turn, these (re)produce performative membership in the Finnish nation. Likewise, recent Russian memory politics that celebrate Russia’s “great victory” in World War II have become visible in the Finnish public and media space owing to the Immortal Regiment marches held in Helsinki since 2017. This event is embedded within a series of complex connections between Russian speakers, Russian mediascapes, and pro-Russian activists in Finland, and represents an instance of the mediatization of transnational memory politics.
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