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Subject, Object, Predicate? Somali Migrants’ Subject Positions in a Local Finnish Integration Scene

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The aim of this article to reflect identities or subject positions offered for Somalis who live in a small-town context of Finland. The presented membership positions are hermeneutically interpreted from interviews collected among native people whose work is to put into practice the Finnish immigrant integration principles. The analysis leans on the idea that it is not indifferent how those who have administrative power talk about people and the targets of their work. Vice versa: ways to define people concretely effect on their positions to act among the others, as well as to their self-identifications.

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    http://www.vaestoliitto.fi/tieto_ja_tutkimus/vaestontutkimuslaitos/tilastoja-ja-linkkeja/tilastotietoa/maahanmuuttajat/maahanmuuttajien-maara

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    The interviews were done in Finnish, and we have translated the quotations used in this article into English. This, of course, means that all expressive, local phrases of the vernacular cannot be caught as such, in their linguistic richness.

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    http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2010/en20101386?search[type]=pika&search[pika]=immigrant%20integration.

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    True Finns is a registered political party with an ideology emphasizing nationalism, anti-migration, and patriotism.

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    Päivi Armila & Yasemin Kontkanen

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    Päivi Armila

  2. Juvenia – Youth Research and Development Centre, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli, Finland

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  3. Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Yasemin Kontkanen

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Armila, P., Kontkanen, Y. (2019). Subject, Object, Predicate? Somali Migrants’ Subject Positions in a Local Finnish Integration Scene. In: Armila, P., Kananen, M., Kontkanen, Y. (eds) The Contexts of Diaspora Citizenship. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94490-6_5

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