Kaksoiskansalaisuuden turvallistaminen ja Suomen venäjänkieliset

Oivo, Teemu; Davydova-Minguet, Olga

doi:10.33345/idantutkimus.87292

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“…However, the context of the Finnish-Russian border is distinctive and creates factors that impact on the transnational realities of immigrants and local population. The geopolitical tensions between Russia and the EU, the growing mistrust toward Russia in Finland, and Russia’s mediatized identity politics create feelings of being “between the devil and the deep blue see” in Russian-speaking immigrants living in Finland ( Oivo and Davydova-Minguet 2019 ). Consequently, this overall tensed situation and its impact on rural vitality and resilience prompts a need for further research.…”

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Invisible Agents of Rural Development. Russian Immigrant Women in the Finnish Border Region

2021

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The rural region of North Karelia is located close to the Finnish-Russian border, and faces challenges due to population decline and labor shortage. However, it has a unique strength which is its proximity to Russia. This paper analyses the perceived role of immigration in enhancing the vitality of North Karelia. It investigates how the impact of immigration is presented in the regional media, and how Russian-speaking immigrant women’s roles as “agents of development” can be interpreted on the basis of their interviews. The analysis is based on text material obtained from the regional newspaper, and ethnographic interviews conducted among Russian-speaking immigrant women. Findings based on the newspaper material indicate that immigrants are valued primarily for their contribution to regional economic development. However, in some of the texts, immigrants are presented as an integral part of the region’s population, who diversify the skills of communities and thus create potential for promoting local resilience. The analysis of the interview data indicates that the proximity of the border, transnational connections, and ethno-cultural capital which is based on immigrants’ national background are important factors that impact on the attractiveness of North Karelia for Russian immigrant women. Everyday transnational multiculturalism encompasses women’s precarious employment which impacts on the well-being of broader communities on both sides of the border. Although Russian immigrant women are a vital part of these communities, they do not themselves participate in the newspaper discussions about the vitality of rural communities. This indicates that Russian women are “invisible” agents of rural development, who are not fully recognized as contributors of resilience in North Karelia.

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Invisible Agents of Rural Development. Russian Immigrant Women in the Finnish Border Region

2021

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“…Russian citizenship was reconceptualized from a positive resource to an instrument of external and potentially negative influence on the Finnish state. Simultaneously, Russia securitized transnational connections of different levels within the framework of an overall confrontation with the West (see Oivo Forthcoming; Davydova-Minguet and Pöllänen 2017;Oivo and Davydova-Minguet 2019;Oivo et al 2021).…”

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“…Meanwhile restricting some rights of people with transnational affiliations and thus further loading the transnational space with emotions and affects. The "West-Russia" affective division is present at the family level, for example in family members' differing positionings towards Russian and Finnish media, the conflict in Ukraine, Russian-EU relations, and historical memory (Oivo and Davydova-Minguet 2019;Sotkasiira 2017).…”

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Precarious Transnationality in Family Relations on the Finnish-Russian Border during the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

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2021

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The article develops the view of transnational familyhood as an affect of precarity. Transnationality itself is viewed as being defined by state actors and border regimes which make transnational connections fragile and vulnerable. The precarity is compared here with “the lease that is not in your pocket”. The text assembles the authors’ ethnographic work in Finnish-Russian border areas from two decades. Using the methodology of narrative ethnography, the study creates a picture of the atmosphere and affects in which transnational familyhood has been kept alive from the early 1920s until today. The historical context of transnational familyhood is divided into four periods: the period of confrontation and wars, 1920s–1940s; the period of friendly cooperation and a selectively open border, 1950s–1980s; the post-Soviet period of a conditionally open border and migration, 1990s–2010s; and the post-Crimean period of rebordering and the securitization of the transnational everyday since 2014. The everyday reality of transnational familyhood is portrayed through the constructed figures of “Aili” and “Vera”, who represent women belonging to transnational families from different generations.

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“…In Russia, the growing distrust towards foreign countries has gradually extended to Russian citizens with affiliations abroad, crystallizing into social pressure such as accusations of treachery and enactment of juridical regulations against such individuals. However, there are simultaneous policies promoting attractiveness of Russia for compatriots abroad (Oivo and Davydova-Minguet 2019; see also Lohr 2012). In Finland, Russian-speaking residents and Finnish-Russian dual citizens have faced prejudices and ethnic stereotypes-such as being devious, violent, and drunken barbarianssimilar to those that some Finns have of Russians in general (Ronkainen 2009:106-107;Varjonen et al 2013;Heino 2018:72;Krivonos 2019).…”

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“…In the mid-2010s several other states introduced new security regulations targeting dual citizenship. For example, states like Canada, Denmark, and Kazakhstan use revocation of citizenship as a national security instrument (Van Waas and Jaghai 2018;Midtbøen 2019;Oivo and Davydova-Minguet 2019).…”

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Exclusive Citizenship-Membership? Meanings of Finnish-Russian Bonds and Belonging

2021

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Besides defining the juridical relationship between individuals and a state, citizenship holds informal importance of belonging and empowerment in social environment. Perceptions of a "good citizen" reflect normative social and political construction of a society, which is often simultaneously influenced by human rights, migration, security, geopolitics, and nation-building. Initiatives to renegotiate the previously liberal Finnish citizenship became topical in the country's public discussions after changes in European security discourse in 2014. In early 2017 Finnish national broadcast agency, Yle, reported that Finnish-Russian dual citizens were covertly excluded from holding strategic military positions. Through the analysis of media presentations of these news and spontaneous discussions stimulated by them in an online forum of Finland's Russian speakers, this article examines citizenship as a discursive membership in Finnishness and Russianness. Ways of claiming, identifying, validating, and challenging "proper" citizenship have differed clearly in the discourses presented in Finnish national media and in online Russian-language discussions. Journalists and the defense minister, who was a key figure in the media discussions, presented citizenship as a flexible instrument of international security politics. The online discussions spawned debates about the possibilities of inclusion through integrating into and acclimating to Finnish social environment. The most alienating discourse in the online discussions entailed a belief that documented family history is essential for inclusion to citizenship-membership.

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Kaksoiskansalaisuuden turvallistaminen ja Suomen venäjänkieliset

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Invisible Agents of Rural Development. Russian Immigrant Women in the Finnish Border Region

Invisible Agents of Rural Development. Russian Immigrant Women in the Finnish Border Region

Precarious Transnationality in Family Relations on the Finnish-Russian Border during the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

Exclusive Citizenship-Membership? Meanings of Finnish-Russian Bonds and Belonging

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