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Riikka Era
- Tutkija
- Jatko-opiskelija
- Yhteiskuntatieteiden tiedekunta, Sosiaaliantropologia
- Tampereen Yliopisto
- 0503095803
- riikka.era@tuni.fi
Керівники дисертацій
Mari Korpela
- University Lecturer
- 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.
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Mervi Kaukko
- Professor
- kasvatustiede, monikulttuurisuuskasvatus
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358503182399
- mervi.kaukko@tuni.fi
About me
Most of my current research addresses the educational needs of migrant and refugee students. I lead a Research Council of Finland-funded consortium Learning, Engaging, Participating: Exploring Newly Arrived Migrant Students’ Pathways in Education and Society (PATHWAYS, 2025-2029) and a project exploring the state and future of refugee education in Finland (Kone Foundation, 2023–2027), and thirdly, a Nordic project exploring pandemics and forced migration(NordForsk, 2023–2027).
My previous projects have examined, for example, school engagement and learning among students transitioning from preparatory education to basic education, the well-being of unaccompanied asylum-seeking youth, and how refugee students understand experiences of success in their everyday school life.
Theoretically, my research is grounded in practice theories. Together with colleagues from Australia and the Nordic countries, I explore, for example, how school practices could be transformed to be more sustainable, and how all social practices are shaped or enabled by a set of arrangements that can be understood and changed. This work is discussed in books I have co-edited, including Living Well in a World Worth Living in, volumes 1 and 2 (Reimer et al., 2024, 2025), Pedagogy, Education and Praxis in Critical Times (Mahon et al., 2020), and Researching Practices across and within Diverse Educational Sites (Whatman et al., 2024).
I began working in Tampere in 2019 at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR). Prior to that, I was a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (2016–2019), and at the University of Oulu (2015–2016). In 2022–2023, I was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Harvard University, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. My background is in classroom teaching. I have graduated from the Intercultural Teacher Education (ITE)-program at the University of Oulu, and I have worked as a classroom teacher and an English teacher.
Responsibilities
I am Professor (Multicultural Education) at Faculty of Education and Culture, teaching courses on multicultural education, qualitative research methods and academic writing. I lead the projects mentioned above. Much of my teaching is in doctoral studies. I teach courses on dissertation writing and speeding up the doctoral process. I am the vice chair of our faculty's evaluation group for doctoral studies, and I enjoy supervising doctoral researchers. I am also a member of Tampere University's Equality and Equity Board.
Research unit
MTT - Multiculturalism, Transnationalism and Transformation in Education
Research fields
Refugee education, practice theory, multicultural education, intercultural education, research ethics.
- Paniikkiratkaisuista kohti yhdenvertaista pakolaiskasvatusta — Kriisialueilta tulleiden oppilaiden osallisuus, tuki ja inkluusio (KOTI)
- ERAPAN: Education of Refugees and Asylum Seekers under and post the Pandemic in the Nordic Countries
- VOITTO – Valmistavasta perusopetukseen siirtyvän oppilaan integraatio ja tukeminen
- Drawing Toghether: Relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in Finland, Norway and Scotland
Suomen Kulttuurirahaston Pirkanmaan rahaston hoitokunta.
Selected scientific articles:
Macaulay, L. Kaukko, M. (2025) Runoja pakolaisnuorten kokemuksista. Äänikeskeisen runoanalyysin kokeiluja. Nuorisotutkimus 43(3), 57-69.
Kaukko, M., Neuhaus, S., Välimäki, M. (2025). For the nation and the future: Historical snapshots into refugee education during the last 100 years in Finland and Sweden. History of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2577671
Kaukko, M., Dryden-Peterson, S., Wilkinson, J., & Kemmis, S. (2025). Refugee education for living well in a world worth living in. Teachers and Teaching, Theory and Practice, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2025.2478151
Kuusisto, E., Rissanen, I., Timm, S., & Kaukko, M. (2025). Civic purposes in teaching: A study among Finnish and German student teachers. European Educational Research Journal EERJ. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041251359342
Alisaari, J., Harju-Autti, R., Kaukko, M., Heikkola, L. M., Mustonen, S., & Petäjäniemi, M. (2025). Administrators’ views on supporting newly arrived students in Finland. Apples, 76–92. https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.144900
Kaukko, M., Macaulay, L., Reimer, K., Dunwoodie, K., Webb, S., & Wilkinson, J. (2024). “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, 43(4), 889–905. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2280746
Kaukko, M. (2024). Kolme tapaa nähdä pakolaislapsi väärin. Kasvatus & Aika,18(3). https://doi.org/10.33350/ka.14652
Kauhanen, I., Lanas, M., & Kaukko, M. (2024). (Im)possibilities of parity of participation in school settings in the lives of unaccompanied youth. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 28(14), 3422–3436. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2023.2287474
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.
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
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.
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
Scientific books:
Reimer, K., Kaukko, M., Windsor, S., Kemmis, S., & Mahon, K. (2023). Living Well in a World Worth Living in For All: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing. Springer.
Reimer, K., Kaukko, M., Windsor, S., Kemmis, S., & Mahon, K. (2024). Living Well in a World Worth Living in For All: enacting praxis for a Just and Sustainable Future. Springer.
Whatman, S. Wilkinson, J., Kaukko, M., Vedeler, G., Blue, L. & Reimer, K. (2023). Researching practices across and within diverse educational sites. Onto-epistemological considerations. Emerald,
Lampert, J., Kaukko, M., Wilkinson, J. & Garcia-Carrion, R. (2024). Disadvantage: Keywords in Teacher Education (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Heikkinen, H. Kaukko, M. (2023) Toimintatutkimus. Käytännön opas. Vastapaino.
Special issues:
Weck, V., Kaukko, M., Proyer, M., Macaulay, L. (2025) Disputing Deindividualisation: Learning with and from refugees and migrants to make education more inclusive. In International Journal of Inclusive Education.
Kohli, R. K. S., Fylkesnes, M. K., Kaukko, M., & White, S. C. (2024). Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach. Social Sciences (Basel), 13(1), 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13010052
Petäjäniemi, M. & Kaukko, M. (2025) Turvan rajat. Pakolaisnuoruus Suomessa. Nuorisotutkimus 3/2025
Heikkinen, H. Kaukko, M. Nikkola, T. & Saari, A. (2021) Kasvatuksen dekontekstualisaatio. Kasvatus 4/2021.