Anitta Kynsilehto

Associate Professor, Yhteiskuntatutkimus, erityisesti globaali liikkuvuus.

Faculty of Social Sciences | Unit of Social Research

Tampere University

anitta.kynsilehto [at] tuni.fi (anitta[dot]kynsilehto[at]tuni[dot]fi)

+358503187595

City Centre Campus

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9528-7793

About me

Associate Professor (tenure-track) working at Tampere Peace Research Institute. Docent in Ethnic relations at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Responsibilities

Editor-in-chief in Kosmopolis: Finnish Journal of Peace and Conflict Research and World Politics (with Eeva Puumala and Leena Vastapuu). Associate editor in Frontiers Human Dynamics: Refugees and Conflict (since 2019).

Fields of expertise

My academic passion centers around exploring and understanding global mobilities and possibilities for enhancing social justice, bearing in mind the goals of globally responsible research and praxis.

Research topics

Mobility, solidarity, intersectionality, decoloniality

Selected publications

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2024) Navigating spaces of everyday peace and violence: Societal protest, care, and solidarity in post-18O Chile. Geopolitics 29(5): 1583–1603.

Kynsilehto, Anitta & Marja Alastalo (2024) Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state: Registration of foreign-born persons in Finland. Environment and Planning C, DOI:10.1177/23996544241282655

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2023) Making do as a migrant in Morocco: Between formal recognition and true integration. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 21(2): 158–170.

Penttinen, Elina & Anitta Kynsilehto (2017) Gender and Mobility: A Critical Introduction. Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield. (Korean translation published in 2021)

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2017) Mobilities, Politics and Solidarities. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 29(1): 48–54.

Kynsilehto, Anitta & Eeva Puumala (2015) Persecution as Experience and as Knowledge. The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews. International Studies Perspectives 16(4): 446–462.

Kynsilehto, Anitta (2011) Negotiating intersectionality in highly educated migrant Maghrebi women’s life stories. Environment and Planning A 43(7): 1547–1561.

Latest publications

Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state: Registration of foreign-born persons in Finland
Kynsilehto, A. & Alastalo, M., 6 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Feminist silences and silencing the critique of Gaza genocide
Kynsilehto, A., 7 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gender, Place and Culture.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Framing migration as hybrid warfare produces politics of exception
Krivonos, D. & Kynsilehto, A., 12 Apr 2024, Raster.fi.
Research output: Other contribution
Gaza: Arkea palestiinalaisäidin silmin ja sotaa norjalaisten lääkärien todistamana
Translated title of the contribution: Gaza: Everyday life through the eyes of a Palestinian mother and war witnessed by Norwegian medical doctorsKynsilehto, A., 7 Jun 2024, In: Kosmopolis. 54, 1-2, p. 110-114
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific
Kruununprinsessan uudet vaatteet
Translated title of the contribution: Crown princess' new clothesVastapuu, L., Kynsilehto, A. & Puumala, E., 2024, In: Kosmopolis. 54, 1-2, p. 3-8
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Scientific
Navigating Spaces of Everyday Peace and Violence: Societal Protest, Care, and Solidarity in Post-18O Chile
Kynsilehto, A., 14 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: GEOPOLITICS.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Suomen ja Venäjän raja: Rajavalvonnan ulkoistaminen ja ihmisten liikkuvuuden turvallistaminen muuttoliikehallinnan välineenä
Translated title of the contribution: Finnish-Russian border: Externalisation of border control and securitisation of human mobility as tools of migration managementKynsilehto, A., 16 Sept 2024, In: Siirtolaisuus : Migration. 50, 2, p. 56-59 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Scientific
Tarvitsevatko naapurit aitoja? Rajat, ihmisten liikkuvuus ja militarisaatio
Translated title of the contribution: Do neighbours need fences? Borders, mobility and militarizationKynsilehto, A., 13 Mar 2024, Sodan pauloissa: Militarismi suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa. Hast, S. & Kotilainen, N. (eds.). Gaudeamus, p. 267–276
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kesken jäänyt dekolonisaatio ja turvattomuus Länsi-Afrikassa
Translated title of the contribution: The coup d’état belt in Africa:: Halted decolonization and insecurity in West AfricaMaiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 21 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Afrikan vallankaappausvyöhyke: Kansainvälisten instituutioiden heikkous ja ihmisten liikkuvuuden välineellistäminen osana kolonialismin jatkumoa
Translated title of the contribution: The coup d’état belt in Africa: International institutions’ weakness and instrumentalization of human mobility as parts of continuums of colonialismMaiche, K. & Kynsilehto, A., 28 Aug 2023, In: Politiikasta.fi.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public

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