{"id":1465,"date":"2019-05-15T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2019-05-15T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T10:19:12","slug":"imer-lunch-seminar-23-05-home-accommodation-of-asylum-seekers-in-finland-solidarity-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"IMER Lunch Seminar 23.05: Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers in Finland: Solidarity and Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;font-size: medium;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: Helvetica;color: #373f42\">In Finland, like in other European countries, civic mobilization for supporting migrants and defending the right to asylum have proliferated since the so-called asylum \u2018crisis\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: Helvetica;color: #373f42\">Since the autumn of 2015, home accommodation of asylum seekers has become a popular way to assist asylum seekers and express solidarity amongst Finnish people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt;font-size: medium;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: Helvetica;color: #373f42\">For this IMER lunch seminar, Paula Merikoski from the University of Helsinki, examines this form of hospitality as a way for people to contest tightening asylum policies. By drawing on interviews with hosts, she argues that this phenomenon blurs the boundaries between public and private, and consolidates the understanding of the private home as a political site. She will present findings focusing on what motivated people to open their homes, and show how hosting can be a politicising experience for hosts.\u00a0By opening their doors to asylum seekers, citizens take part in the debate over\u00a0who is welcome to the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A light lunch will be served!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373f42;font-family: Helvetica;text-align: start\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/Paula_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1466\" src=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/Paula_photo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/Paula_photo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/Paula_photo.jpg 684w, https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/Paula_photo-624x934.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Paula Merikoski is a PhD candidate in sociology at University of Helsinki. In her PhD project she is investigating the hospitable social movement of home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland.\u00a0Paula is part of\u00a0the\u00a0research project\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #373f42;font-family: Helvetica;text-align: start\">Struggles over Home and Citizenship. Neighborhood Solidarities as a response to Asylum \u2018Crisis\u2019<\/em><span style=\"color: #373f42;font-family: Helvetica;text-align: start\">\u00a0(University of Helsinki) and\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #373f42;font-family: Helvetica;text-align: start\">NORDHOST\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #373f42;font-family: Helvetica;text-align: start\">research project\u00a0(University of Oslo).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman,times;font-size: medium\">Time: Thursday 23rd of May 2019, 12.30 &#8211; 13.30<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman,times;font-size: medium\">Place:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman,times;font-size: medium\">Bergen Global CMI\/UiB, Jekteviksbakken 31<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Finland, like in other European countries, civic mobilization for supporting migrants and defending the right to asylum have proliferated since the so-called asylum \u2018crisis\u2019.\u00a0Since the autumn of 2015, home accommodation of asylum seekers has become a popular way to assist asylum seekers and express solidarity amongst Finnish people. For this IMER lunch seminar, Paula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}