Mobilising Gender Equality and Protectionism in Finnish Parliamentary Sessions and Online Discussions Around Immigration: An Intersectional and Critical Discursive Psychological Analysis

Immigration, Multiculturalism and Biopolitical Projects on ‘Difference’: Negotiating Intersecting Social Divisions From Positions of Privilege and Disadvantage

“…Tuori 2007). At worst immigrants are seen as being incapable of such repair, and thus in need of exclusion (Venäläinen & Menard 2022).…”

“…In some ways then, there are significant disjoints in hegemonic Finnish national identities and symbolism based on principles of equality and the welfare state, in particular, and how these nationalisms play out in everyday practices inside the nation. Whiteness, for example, is so intricately linked with Finnishness that Finnish citizens of colour are effectively and consistently pushed to its constitutive outside (Krivonos 2018;Leinonen 2012;Rastas 2005), as well as to the outside of the hegemonic value of equality discourses associated with Finnishness (Venäläinen & Menard 2022). Normative discourses and discursive practices around 'diversity' or 'multiculturalism' and particular discourses on 'equality' are in disharmonious relations (e.g.…”