Meet us!
Me, myself and I
Riikka Era
- Tutkija
- Jatko-opiskelija
- Yhteiskuntatieteiden tiedekunta, Sosiaaliantropologia
- Tampereen Yliopisto
- 0503095803
- riikka.era@tuni.fi
My brilliant supervisors
Mari Korpela
- Academy Research Fellow
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358503186131
- mari.korpela@tuni.fi
About me
Mari is a social anthropologist, currently working as an Academy Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tampere University, Finland. Her research project is titled "Expatriate Childhood: Children's Experiences of Temporary Migration. " The project is funded by the Academy of Finland (2019-2024).
Earlier, she has worked as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Tampere University. She has also worked as a researcher in the project "Governance and Grieving: Disappearing Migrants and Emergent Politics" in Tampere University.
Mari is the director of the research network Mobile Professionals and families. She is also a member in t he Visual Studies Lab . In addition, Mari is a docent (adjunct professor) of social and cultural anthropology in the University of Helsinki. During 2022-2023, she is a visiting associate professor at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in the University of Manchester.
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Field of expertise
anthropology of childhood, 'third culture kids', expatriates, lifestyle migration, transnational communities, countercultures, gender and travel, temporary migration, missing tourists, ethnographic and visual research methods, ethnographic films
Research career
Academy Research Fellow 2019-2024
Senior researcher 2014-2017
Postdoctoral researcher 2011-2013
PhD researcher 2002-2010
PhD dissertation:
Korpela, M. 2009. More Vibes in India. Westerners in Search of a Better Life in Varanasi. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Journal articles:
Korpela, Mari (2023). International lives and Finnish rhythms: Mobile professionals’ children, time and agency. Global Studies of Childhood.
Korpela. Mari. 2022. ”Then we decided not to tell the adults.” Fieldwork among children in an international school. Ethnography.
Korpela, M. 2020. Avointa ja ilmaista korkeakoulutusta kaikille? : Moocien mahdollisuudet ja rajoitteet. Aikuiskasvatus 40 (2), 140-146.
Korpela, M. 2019. Searching for a countercultural life abroad: neo-nomadism, lifestyle mobility or bohemian lifestyle migration? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1569505
Korpela, M. 2018. Moving to Paradise for the Children's Sake. Migration Letters 15:1. 55-65.
Korpela, M. 2017. “India has got it!”: lifestyle migrants constructing “Incredible Indias” in Varanasi and Goa. Etnográfica 21:1. 153-173.
Korpela, M., Hirvi L, & Tawah, S. 2016. Not Alone. Doing Fieldwork in the Company of Family Members. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 41:3, 4-20.
Korpela, M. 2016. A (Sub)Culture of Their Own: Children of Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 25:4. 470-488.
Korpela, M. 2016. Interrogating child migrants or ‘Third Culture Kids’ in Asia: An introduction. Together with Anne-Meike Fechter. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 25:4. 422-428.
Korpela, M. 2014. Growing up cosmopolitan? Children of Western Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India. COLLeGIUM. Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Vol. 15, 90-115.
Korpela, M. 2013. Marginally Mobile? The Vulnerable Lifestyle of the Westerners in Goa. Two Homelands 38, 63-72.
Korpela, M. 2010. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 36:6. 1299-1315
Articles in books:
Korpela Mari (2022) Vapauden valtakunta vai mystisen viisauden koti? Elämäntapamuuttajat ihmeellisessä Intiassa. In Mikko Autere & Hanna Mannila (eds.) Etelä-Aasian yhteiskunta, kulttuuri ja politiikka: Intia, Pakistan ja Bangladesh. Turku: University of Turku. 237-255.
Korpela, M. 2020. “We must stay for the exams!” Pacing mobilities and immobilities among lifestyle migrant families in Goa, India. In Vered Amit & Noel B. Salazar. Pacing mobilities: a consideration of shifts in the timing, intensity, tempo and duration of mobility. Berghahn Publishers.
Korpela, M. , Hyytiä, J. & Pitkänen, P. 2017. Navigating bureaucracies, intentions and relationships: Temporary transnational migration between Finland and Asia. In Pirkko Pitkänen, Mari Korpela, Mustafa Aksakal, Kerstin Schmidt (eds.) Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces.Dordrecht: Springer. 213-232.
Korpela, M. 2016. Infrastructure. In Noel Salazar & Kiran Jayaram (eds.) Keywords of Mobility: Critical Anthropological Engagements. Oxford: Berghahn Publishers. 117-136.
Korpela, M. 2014. Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration. In Michaela Benson & Nick Osbaldiston (eds.) Understanding Lifestyle Migration. Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life. Palgrave Mcmillan. 27-46.
Korpela, M. 2009. When a Trip to Adulthood Becomes a Lifestyle: The Community of Westerners in Varanasi, India. In Karen O'Reilly & Michaela Benson (eds.) A New Life? Expectations, aspirations, and experiences of lifestyle migration. Ashgate: Aldershot. 15-30.
Books:
Pitkänen Pirkko, & Korpela, Mari & Aksaka, Mustagal & Schmidt, Kerstin (eds.). 2017. Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces. Dordrecht: Springer.
Korpela, Mari & Dervin Fred (eds.). 2013. Cocoon Communities. Togetherness in the 21st Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Korpela Mari, Hirsiaho Anu, Rantalaiho Liisa (eds.). 2005. Kohtaamisia rajoilla. Helsinki: SKS.
Blogs:
Kylmästä lämpimään. Suomalaiset eläkeläiset talvipakolaisina Thaimaassa. AntroBlogi. 22.6.2016
A drawing on mobile childhood by Goa kids. Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World. 15.5.2015.
Samaan aikaan toisaalla... Kommentti: Nuorisotutkimuksen verkkokanava. 28.8.2007
Mervi Kaukko
- Professor
- kasvatustiede, monikulttuurisuuskasvatus
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358503182399
- mervi.kaukko@tuni.fi
About me
My current research has three primary areas: migration and refugee research, intercultural education and practice theories/praxis.
Migration/refugee research, especially in relation to childhood and education (Kaukko & Wilkinson 2018; Wilkinson & Kaukko 2019; Kohli & Kaukko 2017; Millei, Korkiamäki & Kaukko 2019), has been my main interest since the beginning of my PhD. Currently my main agenda in this field is to understand refugee students’ educational success and school wellbeing. I believe that while certain circumstances and processes can make refugee children vulnerable and struggle in school, the relationship between difficult experiences and consequent problems is correlational rather than causal (Kaukko & Wilkinson 2018). I want to understand how, despite a fragmented educational history and exile-related stressors, many refugee children succeed in schools, and what kind of educational practices they have found helpful in their learning.
The second theme is ethical praxis in intercultural education. Ethical praxis in intercultural settings requires teachers to critically reflect their work beyond their immediate teaching practice and think, what is good for the individual learners now and in the long run (regardless of where they will be), and what kind of practices resonate with the lifeworlds of the child, (regardless of how distant they are from the world of the teacher). In my ongoing research, I explore this with Finnish and Australian teachers and educational leaders working with refugee students.
My third, mainly theoretical research interest is closely linked to the other two. I frame my current research within practice theories, especially within the theory of practice architectures (Kemmis, Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy & Bristol 2014). This theoretical approach conjoins the individual and the societalapproaches, and the ways in which experiences and the site-specific (educational) practices are nested with one another: how the everyday reality (of students, teachers, educational leaders, to take school as an example) is composed in socio-material realities (of schools) and, especially, shaped by the cultural-discursive, material-economic and social-political arrangements among which the practices are enacted (Kemmis et al 2014).
I came to Tampere in 2019 to join the Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) after three years at Monash University, Australia. Before that, I was a lecturer (Global Education) at University of Oulu, Finland. I continue as an adjunct researcher at Monash University and a docent (adjunct) at Oulu University.
Responsibilities
I am Professor (Multicultural Education) at Faculty of Education and Culture. I lead the Kone-foundation funded project From Panic Solutions Towards Equal Refugee Education — Participation, Support and Inclusion of Students from Countries in Crisis (KOTI) (2023-2027) and I am the Project Manager for NordForsk-funded project Relational Wellbeing in the Lives of Young Refugees in Finland, Norway and the UK (2020-2024). Year 2022-2023 I spend at Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Fulbright fellow.
Research unit
MTT - Multiculturalism, Transnationalism and Transformation in Education
Research fields
Refugee education, practice theory, multicultural education, intercultural education, research ethics.
Kaukko, M. Petäjäniemi, M., Harju-Autti, R., Haswell, N. Alisaari, J. Heikkola, L. & Mustonen, S. (2023) Tasapainoilua, tilan antamista ja näkymätisöintiä – Pakolaisaiheiden käsittely suomalaisissa kouluissa [Balancing, giving space and invisibilsation – Addressing refugee issues in Finnish schools]. Kasvatus ja Aika [Education and Time], 17(4).
Kaukko, M., Macaulay, L., Reimer, K., Webb, S., Dunwoodie, K. and Wilkinson, J. (2023) ‘It is a university where I felt welcome’: Poems of asylum-seeking students’ sense of coherence in Australian higher education. Higher Education Research and Development. DOI 10.1080/07294360.2023.2280746
Kauhanen, I., Lanas, M. & Kaukko, M. (2023) (Im)possibilities of Parity of Participation in School Settings in the Lives of Unaccompanied Youth. International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI 10.1080/13603116.2023.2287474
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E., Timm, S., & Kaukko, M. (2023). Diversity beliefs are associated with orientations to teaching for diversity and social justice: A study among German and Finnish student teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 123, 103996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103996
Kaukko, M., Alisaari, J., Heikkola, L., Haswell, N. (2022) Migrant Background Students’ Experiences of Facing and Overcoming Difficulties in Finnish Comprehensive Schools. Education sciences. 12, 450. DOI: 10.3390/educsci12070450
Kaukko M., Wilkinson J., Haswell, N. (2022). ‘This is our treehouse’. Investigating play through a practice architectures lens. Childhood 29(2), 187–203. DOI:10.1177/09075682221091419
Korkiamäki, R. & Kaukko, M. (2023) Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people Childhood 30(1), 55–70. DOI:10.1177/09075682221126586
Mustonen, S., Kaukko, M., Alisaari, J., Petäjäniemi, M., Heikkola, L. M., Harju-Autti, R., & Haswell, N. (2023). Pakolaistaustaisten oppilaiden tuki koulutoimen hallinnollisissa diskursseissa [School administration discourses concerning support for students with a refugee background]. AFinLAn Vuosikirja. https://doi.org/10.30661/afinlavk.127097
Kaukko, M. & Wilkinson, J. (2023) Challenging ontological and epistemological assumptions of researching: A practice architectures approach. In Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (eds). Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites. Onto-epistemological considerations. Emerald, 23-36.
Kaukko, M. & Wilkinson, J. (2023) A site-ontological approach to researching with children and youth from refugee background. In Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (eds). Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites. Onto-epistemological considerations. Emerald, 37-60.
Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (2023) Concluding thoughts on methodological resources and research challenges in diverse educational sites. In Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (eds). Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites. Onto-epistemological considerations. Emerald, 163-168.
Heikkinen, H., Salo, P. & Kaukko, M. (2023) Mitä toimintatutkimus on, ja miten sitä tehdään? [What is action research, and how to do it?] In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 17-38.
Salo, P., Kaukko, M. & Heikkinen, H. (2023) Toimintatutkimuksen monet historiat [Many histories of action research]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 39-66.
Heikkinen, H., Salo, P., Kaukko, M., Kiilakoski, T., Huttunen, R., Mutanen, A., Friman, M. & Nuutinen, L. (2023). Suuntauksia ja tulkintoja [Approaches and interpretations]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 67-110.
Niemi, R., Kiilakoski, T., & Kaukko, M. (2023). Suunnittelu ja toteuttaminen [Planning and implementation]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 111-136.
Kaukko, M. & Kiilakoski, T. (2023). Toimi hyvin: Toimintatutkimuksen eettiset kysymykset [Do well. Ethical questions of action research]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 137-162.
Kaukko, M. & Kiilakoski, T. (2023) Kenen hyvä, millainen muutos? Moninaisuus toimintatutkimuksessa. [Good for whom, what kind of change? Diversity in action research] In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 163-196.
Heikkinen, H. & Kaukko, M. (2023) Kerronnallinen näkökulma [Narrative approach]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 197-216.
Kaukko, M., Heikkinen, H. & Salo, P. (2023). Käytäntöteoriat ja toimintatutkimus. [Practice theories and action research]. In Heikkinen, M. & Kaukko, M. (eds.). Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas [Action research: Guide to practice]. Vastapaino, 267-291.
Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (2023) Onto-epistemological and axiological consideration for researching practices. In Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (eds). Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites. Onto-epistemological considerations. Emerald, 1-22.
Kaukko, M., Windsor, S., Reimer, K. (2023). Searching for worlds for living in. In Reimer, K. Kaukko, M. Kemmis, S. Mahon, K. & Windsor, S. (eds). Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Current practices of social justice, sustainability and wellbeing (Part 1). Springer.
Heikkinen, H., Kiilakoski, T., Kaukko, M. & Kemmis, S. (2023) Tehtävänä on käytäntöjen muuttaminen. Ekososiaalinen sivistys käytäntöarkkitehtuuriteorian valossa. [Changing practices. Eco-social wisdom in the light of practice architectures] Kasvatus 1(23).
Haswell, N., Kaukko, M., Knag Fylkesnes, M., Sullivan, P. (2023) Keeping each other safe: Young refugees’ navigation towards a good life in Finland, Norway, and Scotland. In Reimer, K. Kaukko, M. Kemmis, S. Mahon, K. & Windsor, S. (eds). Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Current practices of social justice, sustainability and wellbeing (Part 1). Springer.
Keary, A., Reupert, A., Kaukko, M., & Wilkinson, J. (2023) Education and Ethics of Care when Working with Refugee Families during COVID-19. Early years, 43(4–5), 875–888.
Kauhanen, I., Kaukko, M., Lanas, M. (2022) Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland. In Children and Youth Services Review. Vol 141, DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106621
Alisaari, J., Kaukko, M. & Heikkola, L. (2022) Kotoutuminen, kuuluvuus, kielitaito ja kaverit: Opettajien ajatuksia maahanmuuttajataustaisten oppilaiden opetuksen kehittämiskohdista. [Integration, belonging, language and friends. Teachers’ thoughts about areas to develop in migrant students’ education]. Kasvatus ja aika 16(2), 26–46. DOI:10.33350/ka.103434
Alisaari, J., Kaukko, M. & Heikkola, L. (2022) Riitänkö minä? Osaanko auttaa? Opettajien huolia maahanmuuttajataustaisten oppilaiden opetuksessa. [Am I enough? Exploring teachers’ worries about working with migrant students] Kasvatus 53 (3), 229–244.
Alisaari, J., Kaukko, M., Heikkola & L. (2022) The Joys of Teaching: Working with language learners in Finnish classrooms. Scandinavian Journal of Education, 66 (4), 566-579 DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2021.1897877
Laletas, S., Grove, C., Sharma, U., O’Toole, T. & Kaukko, M. (2022) Breaking down the walls of the ‘Ivory Tower’: critical reflections on how co-teaching partnerships can bridge the gap between inclusive education theory and practice, Teachers and Teaching, DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2022.2062742
Millei, Z., Kaukko, M. & Korkiamäki, R. (2022) Thinking with publics, politics and ethical boards in ethnographic research. In B. Hünersdorf, G. Breidenstein, J. Dinkelacker, O. Schnoor & T. Tayagunova (eds) Going public? Ethnography in Education and Social Works and its Publics. Springer.
MacDonald, K., Diamond, F., Wilkinson, J., Sum, N., Longmuir, F., Kaukko, M. (2022) Creating spaces of learning in academia: Fostering niches for professional learning practice. Studies in Continuing Education (44)2, 266-283, DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2021.1956890
Keary, A., Reupert, A., Kaukko, M., & Wilkinson, J. (2022) Education and Ethics of Care when Working with Refugee Families during COVID-19. Early years. DOI: 10.1080/09575146.2022.2031120
Haswell, N., Kaukko, M., Knag Fylkesnes, M., Sullivan, P. (2023) Keeping each other safe: Young refugees’ navigation towards a good life in Finland, Norway, and Scotland. In Reimer, K. Kaukko, M. Kemmis, S. Mahon, K. & Windsor, S. (eds). Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Current practices of social justice, sustainability and wellbeing (Part 1). Springer.
Kaukko, M., Windsor, S., Reimer, K. (2023). Searching for worlds for living in. In Reimer, K. Kaukko, M. Kemmis, S. Mahon, K. & Windsor, S. (eds). Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Current practices of social justice, sustainability and wellbeing (Part 1). Springer.
Kaukko, M. (2021) Storycrafting refugee children’s lives. Presenting Ali and the Long Journey to Australia. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, online ahead of print.
Kaukko, M., Wilkinson, J., & Kohli, R. (2021) Pedagogical love in Finland and Australia. A study of refugee children and their teachers. Pedagogy, Society and Culture, online ahead of print.
Kaukko M. & Wilkinson J. (2021) ‘Learning how to go on’: Refugee students and informal learning practices. International Journal of Inclusive Education (24)11, 1175-1193.
Kaukko, M., Kemmis, S., Heikkinen, H. Kiilakoski, T. & Haswell, N. (2021). How to survive amidst nested crises: can the coronavirus pandemic help us change educational practices to prepare for the impending eco-crisis? Environmental Educational Research 27(11), 1559-1573.
Petäjäniemi, M., Lanas, M. & Kaukko, M. (2021) How to be a good asylum seeker? The subjectification of young men seeking asylum. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 11(3), 284-300.
Petäjäniemi, M., Kaukko, M. & Lanas, M. (2021) Confined in Waiting - Young Asylum Seekers Narrating in and out of Temporary Shelter. YOUNG Special Issue: Intersections of Care, Punishment and Protection 29(1), 62-80.
Webb, S., Dunwoodie, K., Wilkinson, J., Macaulay, L., Reimer, K. E. & Kaukko, M. (2021). Recognition and precarious mobilities: The experiences of university students from a refugee background in Australia. International Review of Education. Online ahead of print.
Dunwoodie, K., Kaukko, M., Wilkinson, J. Reimer, K. & Webb, S. (2020) Widening university access for students of asylum-seeking backgrounds: (Mis)recognition in an Australian context. Higher Education Policy 33, 243-264.
Kauhanen, I. & Kaukko, M. (2020) Recognition in the lives of unaccompanied children and youth: A review of literature. Child & Family Social Work 25(4), 875-883.
Wilkinson, J. & Kaukko, M. (2020) Educational leading as pedagogical love: The case for refugee education. International Journal of Leadership in Education 21(1), 70-85.
Wilkinson Jane & Kaukko Mervi (2020) How to support students of refugee background in your school Brooks, Jeff. & Heffernan, Amanda. (Eds.). The school leadership survival guide: What to do when things go wrong, how to learn from mistakes, and why you should prepare for the worst. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC.
Sjølie Ela, Francisco Susanne, Mahon Kathleen, Kaukko Mervi, Kemmis Stephen (2020) Learning of academics in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, Vol. 2, Issue 1. 85-107
Petäjäniemi, Maria, Kaukko, Mervi & Lanas, Maija (2020) Confined in Waiting - Young Asylum Seekers Narrating in and out of Temporary Shelter. YOUNG Special Issue: Intersections of Care, Punishment and Protection. DOI: 10.1177/1103308820904271
Kaukko, Mervi, Kielinen, Marko, Alasuutari, Hanna (2019): Linnunpesästä lentoon. Valmistavan opetuksen praksis opettajien kertomana. Aikakauskirja Kasvatus 5(19), 474-488.
Reimer, Kristin, Kaukko, Mervi, Wilkinson, Jane, Dunwoodie, Karen & Webb, Sue (2019) Acknowledging the Head, Heart, Hands and Feet: Research with Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in Higher Education. In Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning. 21(2), 190-208.
Wilkinson, Jane & Kaukko Mervi (2019) Leading for praxis in refugee education. Orchestrating ecologies of socially just practices. In Jeffrey Brooks, Khalid Arar & Ira Bogotch (eds) Education and Immigration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World. Bingley, UK: Emerald’s Advances in Educational Administration.
Kaukko Mervi, Korkiamäki, Riikka & Kuusisto, Anna-Kaisa (2019): Normatiivisesta etiikasta elettyyn kohtaamiseen: tutkimuksellista hengailua yksin tulleiden maahanmuuttajanuorten kanssa. [From normative ethics towards lived encounters: research-like hanging out with unaccompanied minors] In Kaisa Vehkalahti & Niina Rutanen (Eds.) Lasten ja nuorten tutkimuksen etiikka II [Ethics of childhood and youth research II].
Millei, Zsuzsa, Korkiamäki, Riikka & Kaukko, Mervi (2019). ‘Arctic Childhoods' and mobilized differences - the mattering of skis and skates. In Pauliina Rautio & Elina Stenvall (eds.) Social, Material and Political Constructs of Arctic Childhoods: An Everyday Life Perspective. Springer.
Dunwoodie, Karen, Kaukko, Mervi, Wilkinson, Jane Reimer, Kristin & Webb, Sue (2019) Widening university access for students of asylum-seeking backgrounds: (Mis)recognition in an Australian context. Higher Education Policy.
Kaukko Mervi (2018) Intertwined journeys of a PhD-student, unaccompanied minors and the “refugee crisis”. International Journal of Doctoral Studies.
Kaukko Mervi, Kiilakoski Tomi (2018) Tutkimus on toimintaa [Research is action]. In Honkatukia, Päivi (eds.) Miten tutkia nuoria ja nuorisotyötä [How to do research with youth and on youth work?] Helsinki, Finland: Nuorisotutkimusverkosto /Vastapaino.
Petäjäniemi, Maria, Lanas, Maija & Kaukko, Mervi (2018): Osallisuus turvaa hakevan reunaehdoissa: hätämajoitusyksikössä asuvien turvapaikanhakijoiden kertomuksia osallisuudesta ja osattomuudesta [Participation and seeking for safety: Narratives of asylum-seeking people in emergency housing]/ Aikuiskasvatus. [Adult Education] 2018/1.
Kaukko Mervi & Wilkinson Jane (2018) Praxis and language: Teaching newly arrived migrant children to ‘live well in a world worth living in’. TESOL in Context 27(1).
Heikkinen, Hannu, Kiilakoski, Tomi, Huttunen, Rauno, Kaukko Mervi, Kemmis Stephen (2018). Koulutustutkimuksen arkkitehtuurit Aikakauskirja Kasvatus 49 (5), 368–383.
Kohli, Ravi & Kaukko, Mervi (2017) The management of time and waiting of unaccompanied asylum seeking girls in Finland. Journal of Refugee Studies. doi:10.1093/jrs/fex040.
Kaukko Mervi & Wernesjö Ulrika (2017) Belonging and participation in liminality. Unaccompanied children in Finland and Sweden. Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research 24(1)2017, 7-20, doi:10.1177/0907568216649104
Kaukko Mervi (2017) The CRC of unaccompanied children in Finland. International Journal of Children’s Rights, 25(1)2017, 140 – 164, doi: 10.1163/15718182-02501006
Kaukko Mervi, Dunwoodie Karen & Riggs Elisha (2017) Rethinking the ethical and methodological dimensions of research with refugee children. ZEP: Journal for International Educational Research and Development Education 1(2017), 16-21.
Kaukko Mervi (2016) The P, A and R of participatory action research with unaccompanied girls. Educational Action Research, 24(2) 2016, 177-193, doi:10.1080/09650792.2015.1060159
Kaukko Mervi & Fertig Michael (2016) Participatory action research, global education and social justice: Emerging issues from practice. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning 7(3)2016, 24-46, doi: https://doi.org/10.18546/IJDEGL.07.3.03.
Kaukko Mervi & Parkkila Helena (2014) Nykyajan totaaliset laitokset tyttöjen suojelijoina. [The total institutions of today. Girls in foster care]. In Gissler, Kekkonen, Känkäinen, Muranen & Wrede-Jäntti (eds.) Nuoruus toisin sanoen. [Youth in other words]. Helsinki: Youth Research Network and National Institute for Health and Welfare, 113-121.
Kaukko Mervi (2013) 'We have to learn for ourselves' Participation of unaccompanied minors in a Finnish reception center. Siirtolaisuus-Migration, Special Issue “Unaccompanied Refugee Minors”, 12-21.
Kaukko Mervi (2013) Everyday choices, meaningful activities and reliable adults. Diverse paths to empowerment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls. In: Törrönen, Borodkina, Samoylova & Heino (eds.): Empowering Social Work: Research & Practice. Helsinki: Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education, 200-221.