Materials
Transnational situations in Child protection (in Finnish): Rajat ylittävät lastensuojelutilanteet (2025). Palvelupolkumalli lastensuojelun käsikirjassa.
Transnational work processes in Child Protection. Animation (2025). Children’s Rights Across Borders.
Animation for Children (in Finnish): Lapsille suunnattu piirrosvideo (2025). ”Kun olin huolissani ulkomaille matkustavasta kaveristani”.
The videos have been produced together with NOS-HS network “Transnational Childhoods, Transnational Rights?”.
Publications
Heino, E., Jäppinen, M & Veistilä, M. (2023) Assessments of foreign language-speaking children’s well-being in Finland: a frame analysis of child welfare and family service supervisors’ accounts, Nordic Social Work Research, 13:4, 522-536.
Hiitola, J. (2021) Pakolaisten toimijuus perheestä erossa. Teoksessa: Matthies, A., Svenlin, A.-R. & Turtiainen, K. (Toim.) Tietoon perustuva aikuissosiaalityö. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 118-136.
Hiitola, J. (2021) Everyday (In)security and Transnational Family Relationships in the Lives of Young Forced Migrants. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 11(4), 1012–1035.
Jäppinen, M., Kara, H., Nordberg, C. & Riitaoja, A. (2024) Ruling relations coordinating the ‘migrant family’ in institutional encounters between Finnish social work professionals and migrant service users. British Journal of Social Work 54(5), 2296–2314.
Jäppinen, M., Heino, E. & Turtiainen, K. (2024) Vieraskielisyyteen liittyvät kysymykset ja asioimistulkkaus lastensuojelun sosiaalityössä. Teoksessa Kiili, J., Jaakola, A., Anis, M., Lamponen, T. & Stenvall, E. (toim.) Lapsiperheiden ja lastensuojelun sosiaalityö. Gaudeamus.
Kivioja, N. (2025). Koillis-Syyrian leireiltä palanneiden naisten ja lasten kanssa työskentely ja turvallistamisen jännitteet. Teoksessa Pehkonen, A., Kääriäinen, A., Kinni, R. L., & Puurunen, P. (toim) Vaativa sosiaalityö. Jyväskylä: SoPhi 159, 214-232.
Kivioja, N., & Mustasaari, S. (2024). Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria. European Journal of Social Work, 1-12.
Mustasaari, S. (2024). Cross-Border Child Protection Cases between Finland and Central-Eastern European States Including Russia. In Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe. Intersentia, 195-216.
Mustasaari, S. (2022) Children abroad: A relational analysis of cross-border child protection cases in the Finnish Central Authority. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 34(6), 361-380.
Mustasaari, S. (2020). Finnish Children or ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’? Jurisdiction and State ‘Response-ability’in Human Rights Law, Private International Law and the Finnish Child Welfare Act. Oslo law review, 7(1), 22-45.
Nordberg, C., Hiitola, J., Kara, H., & Jäppinen, M. (2024). Welfare state nationalism, family reunification and forced migrants’ strategies to surpass structural violence. In K. Clarke, L. Lee-Oliver, & S. Ranta-Tyrkkö (Eds.), Decolonizing Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care. Bristol: Policy Press, 49–65.
Tumanyan, M., & Hiitola, J. (2025). ‘I want my home’: Symbols and emotions in the art of war-affected children in Armenia. Knowledge Cultures, 13(2), 157–182.