Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Lives in Finland

Jauhiainen, Jussi S.; Tedeschi, Miriam

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“…Passports and other travel documents on the table refer to the woman's flight from Ukraine to Moldova (as the caption reveals). The clearly visible travel documents at the front of the image emphasize the woman's legal refugee status, which forms an intertextual reference to the discussions about paperless refugees during the refugee crisis of 2015–2016 (see Barker, 2017; Jauhiainen & Tedeschi, 2021). In addition, the mismatch between the travel documents, colourful easter eggs, and other decorative items at the level of textual metafunction seem to visualize the turbulence felt by the woman, which resonates with the caption on the image: “It would better if I died.” Hence, the unorganized arrangement of the image, facial expression (communicating grievance and despair), and the travel documents act as agonizing visual rhetorical strategies with the aim of constructing understanding of the woman's despair and sorrow.…”

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Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine

Martikainen

Sakki

2023

British J Social Psychol

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This study examines how news images of refugees in the context of the war in Ukraine mobilize intergroup relations. A visual rhetorical analysis is used to examine the rhetorical strategies employed in news images of Ukrainian refugees in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from February 25 to May 31, 2022. The data consisted of 465 images. The study constructed four humanizing visual rhetorical strategies based on the visual expression in news images: maternalizing, fragilizing, agonizing, and activizing. The rhetorical strategies constructed four subject positions for Ukrainian refugees: vulnerable victims, innocent victims, suffering Ukrainians, and persistent/resilient Ukrainians. All rhetorical strategies implicitly communicated the subject position of evil to Russia. The paper contributes to the current knowledge of the humanization of refugees in media discourse and the potential of media images to mobilize intergroup relations. Methodologically, the paper elaborates visual rhetorical analysis as a means of social psychological study of refugee discourse in the context of war.

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Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine

Martikainen

Sakki

2023

British J Social Psychol

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“…In Finland, irregular migrants tend to live in cities, especially in the Helsinki, Tampere, and Turku areas (Jauhiainen et al, 2018). However, according to the latest data from Finnish municipalities (Jauhiainen & Tedeschi, 2021), the greatest pressure is on the capital (Helsinki), and the presence of irregular migrants is no longer as widespread across the country as it was in 2017; hence, our research was mainly conducted in urban areas in southern Finland, and especially in the capital, which has the highest concentration of irregular migrants.…”

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“…sometimes limited social relationships (Sigona, 2012), precarious mental and physical conditions (Muntaner et al, 2010), and practices of agency (Sigona, 2012;Triandafyllidou, 2017). The livelihoods of irregular migrants have also been thoroughly investigated by numerous ethnographic studies (Fontanari, 2017;Jauhiainen & Tedeschi, 2021;Khosravi, 2010aKhosravi, , 2010bPicozza, 2017 to cite but a few).…”

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On multiple spacetimes in the everyday lives of irregular migrants in Finland

Tedeschi

Gadd

2021

Geographical Journal

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This article explores how multiple layers of spacetimes overlap and merge in individuals' lives and relationships, transforming, enhancing, and/or hampering their abilities to interact with the environment. Drawing upon content-analysed ethnographic notes, the article investigates the case of irregular migrants in Finland. It shows how their past activities, practices, and relationships, as well as their hopes and fears for the future, materially shape their now-times. The latter change and evolve through a relentless combination of different past and future elements, in multiple, disparate, and often contradictory ways. This article considers how these migrants survive by inventing new activities and practices and building social relationships (with local residents and their own communities) on a daily basis, negotiating disparate elements, such as laws, digital and physical spaces, and work-and health-related issues. In so doing, migrants acquire, in roundabout (non-linear) ways, the knowledge and capacity to deal with their current, stressful conditions. The article shows how a spatio-temporal approach can transform the emotional geographies of irregular migrants by shedding light on how they navigate the disparate and often conflicting elements of their lives, activities, and relationships.

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“…Heitä arvioitiin olevan Suomessa 2010-luvun lopussa noin 4000-5000 henkilöä määrittelykriteereistä riippuen. Selvästi suurin joukko koostui entisistä turvapaikanhakijoista ( Jauhiainen ja Tedeschi 2021a).…”

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Paperittomien maahanmuuttajien digitaaliset kuilut Suomessa

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Tutkimme Suomessa ilman viranomaisten lupaa asuvien maahanmuuttajien internetin ja sosiaalisen median käyttöä ja tähän liittyvää viestintää: kenellä näistä paperittomista oli mahdollisuus käyttää internetiä ja sosiaalista mediaa, mihin he niitä käyttivät ja mitä vaikutuksia niiden käytöllä oli aiemmassa kotimaassa (eli asuinmaassa, jossa he vakituisesti oleskelivat), matkalla Suomeen ja Suomessa. Samalla tutkimme eroja näiden käytöissä eli digitaalisia kuiluja paperittomien keskuudessa. Aineisto perustuu Suomessa vuonna 2019 olleiden paperittomien keskuudessa toteutettuun kyselyyn (n=100) sekä havainnointiin ja keskusteluihin heidän kanssaan. He käyttivät internetiä ja sosiaalista mediaa aiemmassa kotimaassaan matkan valmisteluun. Monilla käyttö yleistyi siirryttäessä lähtömaasta Suomeen. Suomessa käytännössä kaikki käyttivät internetiä ja kolme neljästä myös sosiaalista mediaa. Käytön mahdollisuuksia ja taitoa koskeva digitaalinen kuilu paperittomien välillä kapeni, mutta vaikutukset eivät olleet samat kaikille. Tutkimukseen osallistuneet käyttivät Suomessa internetiä ja sosiaalista media rakentaakseen ja ylläpitääkseen sosiaalisia suhteitaan, pitääkseen yhteyttä perheeseensä ja tukeakseen jokapäiväisten tarpeiden täyttymistä (kuten työ, ruoka, vaatetus ja asunto). Huhut, virheellinen informaatio ja valvonta internetissä ja sosiaalisessa mediassa toivat lisähaasteita paperittomille Suomessa.

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Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Lives in Finland

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine

Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine

On multiple spacetimes in the everyday lives of irregular migrants in Finland

Paperittomien maahanmuuttajien digitaaliset kuilut Suomessa

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