1 VITA: Dr. Aino SAARINEN (Saarinen-Manninen

VITA: Dr. Aino SAARINEN (Saarinen-Manninen) (March 2014)
Contact address:
Aleksanteri Institute, P.O.Box 42 – Unioninkatu 33, 000014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 40 5887895
Email: [email protected]
Internet: www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri
Aino Saarinen (D.Soc.Sc) is Senior Researcher and an Aleksanteri Associate at the Aleksanteri
Institute and its Centre of Excellence: Choices of Russia’s Modernization. She is also Adjunct
Professor at the University of Tampere and the University of Oulu.
In the early 1990s, she was involved in starting the Nordic-Russian Femina Borealis network in the
Barents region; in the late 1990s-early 2000s, she worked as the Head of Research at the Nordic
Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research (Oslo) and the Nordic Visiting Professor at the
Nevsky Institute (St. Petersburg).
Since the end of the 1990s, Saarinen has coordinated several Nordic-NW Russian research networks
and projects such as NCRB - A Network for Crisis Centres in the Barents Region (1999-2002, 20022005) and been Principal Investigator of the Finnish teams in EU projects in the field of migration
and gender violence: Primts – Prospects for Integration of Migrants from “Third Countries”
(coordinated by the Peace Institute, Ljubljana, 2008-2010); Speak Out! Empowering Migrant,
Refugee and Ethnic Minority Women against Gender Violence (the University of Padua, 2011-2013);
and RAGE – Hate speech and populist othering in Europe: Through the racism, age, gender looking
glass (the University of Leicester, 2013-2015). Worth a note is that in her student days at the turn of
the 1960s-1970s, Saarinen worked in seasonal summer jobs in Sweden, Germany, England and
Norway and thus became herself acquainted with problems related to precarious work in foreign
countries.
In 2004-2007,Saarinen led the Nordic-Russian RWN project on Nordic Russian Women as Immigrants
in ´Norden´, and in 2008-2010/2012, the Finnish-NW Russian-US WGA - Welfare, Gender and Agency
umbrella project, which were both carried out at the Aleksanteri Institute.
Saarinen has focused on feminist methodologies, women’s mobilization locally and transnationally,
gender violence, and migration. She has published in Finnish and Nordic journals and more
internationally. She is co-editor of Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011); Builders of a New Europe. Women Immigrants from Eastern
Transregions (Kikimora, online 2012); and Women and Transformation in Russia (Routledge, 2014).
Publications, selected for 2014/2013-2003 from the afore-mentioned contexts (see also: Research
Database TUHAT: https://tuhat.hlavi.fi/portal/en/persons/aino-saarinen):
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(2014) Aino Saarinen & Maija Jäppinen: Political and Labour Market Inclusion of Migrants in Finland.
Floya Anthias & Mojca Pajnik (eds): Contesting integration, engendering migration: theory and
practice. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave MacMillan, pp 143-162.
(2014), Aino Saarinen, Kirsti Ekonen & Valentina Uspenskaia (eds): Women and Transformation in
Russia. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, 18. London and New York:
Routledge 2014, 240 p. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen, Kirsti Ekonen & Valentina Uspenskaia: Breaks and continuities of the two
´great transformations´, pp 1-27.
- Aino Saarinen: Revisiting a transborder network project: combating gender violence in the
Barents region, pp 189-211.
(2013) Janet Elise Johnson & Aino Saarinen: Twenty-first Century Feminism under Repression:
Gender Regime Change and the Women’s Crisis Center Movement in Russia. Signs, 38, 3, pp 543-567.
(2013) Aino Saarinen: Helsinki: Looking for Shared Vocabularies – The Focus Groups; Final Remarks;
Summary: The Finnish Legislative Framework. Franca Bimbi (ed): Agency of Migrant Women against
Gender Violence: Final Comparative Report of the Project SPEAK OUT! Empowering Migrant,
Refugee and Ethnic Minority Women against Gender Violence in Europe. Merano: Edizioni alpha
beta Verlag, pp 103-118, 118-121, 348-354.
(2012) Aino Saarinen in collaboration with Susanna Mehtonen: Immigration Policies in Finland:
Economic Marginalisation and the Residence-based Welfare Regime’s Support for Humanitarian
Migrants. Sonia Morano-Foadi & Michaela Malena (eds): Integration for Third-Country Nationals in
the European Union: The Equality Challenge. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 185-208.
(2012) Aino Saarinen & Marina Calloni (eds): Builders of a New Europe: Women Immigrants from
the Eastern Transregions. Aleksanteri Series 1/2012. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications – online:
www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/publications/aleksanteri_papers.html. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen: Migrants and Political Agency: Russian Women in the Nordic Countries, pp
132-149.
(2012) Aino Saarinen: Welfare Crisis and Crisis Centers in Russia Today. Helene Carlbäck, Yulia
Gradskova & Zhanna Kravchenko (eds): And They Lived Happily Ever After? Norms and Everyday
Practices of Family and Parenthood in Russia and Central Europe. Budapest: Central European
University Press, pp 231-250.
(2012) Airi Markkanen, Heini Puurunen & Aino Saarinen (toim): Huomio! Romaneja tiellä. Helsinki:
Like, 289 s. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen: Vapaa liikkuvuus: haaste suomalaiselle muuttopolitiikalle ja naisystävälliselle
hyvinvointivaltiolle, ss 214-247.
(2011) Janet Elise Johnson & Aino Saarinen: Assessing civil society in Russia: The plight of women’s
crisis centers. Communist and Post-communist Studies, 44, 1, pp 41-52.
(2011) Aino Saarinen: Non-work migration, employment and welfare in Finland: three third-country
migrant cases / four phases if immigration policies. Mojca Pajnik & Giovanna Campani (eds):
Precarious Migrant Labour Across Europe. Ljubljana: Peace Institute, pp 145-170.
(2011) Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala & Aino Saarinen (eds): Gazing at Welfare, Gender, and Agency
in Post-socialist Countries. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 344 p.
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(2010) Meri Kulmala & Aino Saarinen (toim): Naisena ja naistutkijana Venäjällä. Aleksanteri Series C2.
Helsinki: Kikimora, 224 s. - including:
- Aino Saarinen: Rinnakkain ja vastakkain – naistoimijana ja –tutkijana Luoteis-Venäjällä, ss 3865.
(2009) Aino Saarinen: Kolmoishaaste – maahanmuuttajanaiset ja poliittinen kansalaisuus.
Naistutkimus / Kvinnoforskning 22, 1, pp. 8-21.
(2009) Aino Saarinen: A Circumpolar Case: Networking against Gender Violence across the East-West
Border in the European North. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 34, 3, pp 519-524.
(2007) Aino Saarinen: Venäläiset maahanmuuttajat ´naisystävällisessä´ Pohjolassa: kansalaisuus ja
stigmatisoitunut identiteetti. Tuomas Martikainen ja Marja Tiilikainen (toim): Maahanmuuttajanaiset:
Kotoutuminen ja työ. Väestöntutkimuslaitoksen julkaisuja, D/47. Helsinki: Väestöliitto, ss 125-146.
(2006) Aino Saarinen: Reflections on Interviewing Russian Women as Immigrants: Challenges in the
Nordic Fields. Petra Sinisalo-Katajisto, Katja Hirvasaho & Edward Hämäläinen (eds): Issues of Identity
in the Russian-speaking Diaspora. Helsinki: Studia Slavica Finlandensia, pp 276-307.
(2004) Hilda Rømer Christensen, Beatrice Halsaa & Aino Saarinen (eds): Crossing Borders. Remapping Women’s Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century. Odense: University Press of
Southern Denmark, 371 p. -- including:
Aino Saarinen: Exercises in Transversalism. Reflections on the Nordic-Russian Network for
Crisis Centres in Barents, pp 271-288.
(2004) Aino Saarinen & Elaine Carey-Bélanger (eds): Crisis Centres and Violence against Women.
Dialogue in the Barents Region. Gender Research: Methodology and Practice, Volume 7. Arkhangelsk:
Pomor State University; Oulu, Oulu University Press, 194 p. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen: Tensions of in Combating Violence against Women in the East-West
Transregion of Barents – the “Man Question”, pp 69-90.
(2003) Irina Yukina, Elena Kudriashova & Aino Saarinen (eds): Women’s Strategies and Politics in
Transition. Dialogue across the East-West Divide. Gender Research: Methodology and Practice,
Volume 4. Arkhangelsk: Pomor State University, 188 p. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen: Creating space for “Russian models” of crisis centres? Experiences of NordicNW Russian networking, pp. 84-94.
(2003) Aino Saarinen, Olga Liapounova & Irina Dracheva (eds): NCRB – A Network for Crisis Centres
for Women in the Barents Region. Report of the Nordic-NW Russian Development Project, 19992002. Gender Research and Methodology and Practice, Volume 5. Arkhangelsk: Pomor State
University, 247 p. -- including:
- Aino Saarinen, Olga Liapounova & Irina Dracheva: NCRB Project Report, pp
11-60.
- Aino Saarinen, Irina Dracheva & Olga Liapounova: The Questionnaire Report, pp 161-196.
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