Papers by marina hakkarainen
In this chapter, the authors reflect on their contributions to a translocal approach to childhood... more In this chapter, the authors reflect on their contributions to a translocal approach to childhood studies. Moreover, this chapter creates light for future research. Children are simultaneously grounded and mobile; they can insist on more local lives only in one place as well as taking pride in the translocal richness of their experiences. Furthermore, child participants imagine lives that stretch beyond the Nordic and North European space. The authors invite other researchers to unravel the complexities of doing family from the child’s point of view. By demonstrating the strength of the translocal approach the authors hope to encourage other researchers to discover the meanings of places, people and childhood in the different geographical and social contexts around the globe where children live their lives.
Antropologicheskij forum
А н т р о п о л о г и ч е с к и й ф о р у м , 2 0 2 2 , № 5 5
This book is the product and outcome of a rather long collaborative research journey. In 2010, ou... more This book is the product and outcome of a rather long collaborative research journey. In 2010, our team of anthropologists, geographers and folklorists working in or connected with Finland and interested in mobility got together and thought about an angle from which to approach current migration trends in the north of Europe. In reviewing the literature on migration, it became evident that even when family
This chapter examines narratives about schooling presented by Russian-speaking young adults who c... more This chapter examines narratives about schooling presented by Russian-speaking young adults who came to Finland with their parents as children. Russian-speaking young adults, like many other immigrants, talk about crucial changes in their lives after coming to another country. They talk about the ruptures they experienced and the continuity they had to work out; at the same time, they stress the role of Finnish schooling. In their stories, Finnish school contested the skills, knowledge and social competences they obtained before they came to Finland. However, they overcame these difficulties by mobilising their schooling agency, including their education experiences in the Russian education system. As a result, the recollections of the young adults about their immigrant childhoods represent their agency at school as significant in constructing their successful transnational and translocal biographies.
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork this chapter analyses how children in Russian-speaking ... more Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork this chapter analyses how children in Russian-speaking middle-class families in Finland construct and negotiate economic inequality. Childhood recollections show that children experience a new locality as a new materiality. Children’s material worlds consist of infrastructures with guidelines and webs organising their everyday beings. Teenagers’ consumption of junk food, and the cultural practices of handling pocket money, were two of the most significant topics related to children’s economic worlds and the inequality within them. The distribution of presents at Christmas can also convince children of their unequal position in society. These are practices grounded in the discourse on richness and poverty. At the same time, within this discourse children negotiate their positions using their translocal experience and knowledge.
In this article, I examine narratives about childhood experiences in immigration represented by R... more In this article, I examine narratives about childhood experiences in immigration represented by Russian-speaking young people living in Finland, and I will pay special attention to the conceptualisation of friends and friendships and its use in the construction of immigration and integration experiences. Therefore, I discuss the concepts of friends and friendship in Russian language and culture. Following the conceptualisation of friends and friendship in the immigration narratives of the Russian-speaking young people, I consider three categories configured by means of friendship terms: transnational space, locally organised relations between the natives and immigrants, and agency in immigration. As a result, I conclude that friendship relations, understood as a quintessence of close and equal relationships, are an extremely suitable means for measurement of relatedness and connectedness in the initially strange social environment of immigration.
Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
Berghahn Books, Nov 5, 2010
This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradi... more This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradition and traditional knowledge as it relates to their becoming adult members in the community. Within the local cosmological system the opposition between the elders, who are considered as ...
Sibirica, 2004
This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradi... more This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradition and traditional knowledge as it relates to their becoming adult members in the community. Within the local cosmological system the opposition between the elders, who are considered as ...
International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 2011
Abstract: In the late Soviet time activists of the Jewish ethnic revival movement began a dialogu... more Abstract: In the late Soviet time activists of the Jewish ethnic revival movement began a dialogue with local communities in the former Pale of Settlement in Ukraine about Jewish heritage. Nowadays many localities take into account Jewish heritage as a resource to attract visitors, first of ...
Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
Антропологический форум, 2013
In Imperial Russia, the Jewish community as a particular social
group had a special economic nich... more In Imperial Russia, the Jewish community as a particular social
group had a special economic niche of entrepreneurship within
which artisanship and trade were activities of the majority. That is
why money played an important role. Money was also a significant component for social relations and culture within the Jewish
community. The Soviet rule abolished private entrepreneurship,
and therefore the market and money changed their meaning and
value too. The changes influenced upon the different parts of the
Jewish community in a crucial way. The article turns to Jewish family
stories where the former economic entrepreneurial activities
of previous generations came into contradiction with Soviet values.
It takes into consideration three places of social collision: the metropolitan
city of St Petersburg, the former Pale of Settlement and
movement from the periphery to the centre. These cases show different
paths of social transformations and the formation of loyalties
within different parts of the Russian Jewish community in connection
to Soviet power. Attitudes to money acts as a lens for revealing
the relationships between Soviet rule, society and ethnic
identity, and how they are seen by people who conceptualise the
Soviet experience of their relatives and themselves today. The data
used was collected in St Petersburg and small towns of Podolia
(Ukraine) in 2000–2010s.
Keywords: economic anthropology, money relations, Soviet domestic
economy, Soviet entrepreneurship, history of Jews in Russia.
Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии/The Journal of Sociology and Social Antrhopology, 2015
In this article, I examine narratives about childhood experiences in immigration represented by R... more In this article, I examine narratives about childhood experiences in immigration represented by Russian-speaking young people living in Finland, and I will pay special attention to the conceptualisation of friends and friendships and its use in the construction of immigration and integration experiences. Therefore, I discuss the concepts of friends and friendship in Russian language and culture. Following the conceptualisation of friends and friendship in the immigration narratives of the Russian-speaking young people, I consider three categories configured by means of friendship terms: transnational space, locally organised relations between the natives and immigrants, and agency in immigration. As a result, I conclude that friendship relations, understood as a quintessence of close and equal relationships, are an extremely suitable means for measurement of relatedness and connectedness in the initially strange social environment of immigration.
В статье анализируются нарративы русскоговорящих молодых людей, в ко-торых они рассказывают о своем детском опыте иммиграции и интеграции в новое общество в Финляндии. Важнейшим способом репрезентации этого опыта оказываются рассказы о друзьях и дружбе, через которые молодые люди определяют пространство миграции и межгрупповые отношения в принимающей стране, а также свой личный успех в отношениях с окружающим их первоначально чужим сообществом. В процессе анализа я обращаюсь к специфике концептуализации дружеских отношений в русском языке и культуре и прихожу к выводу, что в силу этой специфики концепт дружбы как символа близких отношений оказывается для молодых людей весьма эффективным способом измерения интеграционной динамики — отчужденно-сти и близости отношений с изначально чужим сообществом. Ключевые слова: нарративы об иммиграции, русскоязычные иммигранты, Финляндия, молодежь, интеграция, дружба
East European Jewish Affairs, 2013
Int. J. of Tourism Anthropology, 2011
In the late Soviet time activists of the Jewish ethnic revival
movement began a dialogue with loc... more In the late Soviet time activists of the Jewish ethnic revival
movement began a dialogue with local communities in the former Pale of
Settlement in Ukraine about Jewish heritage. Nowadays many localities take
into account Jewish heritage as a resource to attract visitors, first of all
researchers of Jewish tradition, Hasidic pilgrims and people of local origin who
emigrated abroad. It could be a foundation for the development of tourism.
However, communities use different discursive strategies concerning Jewish
heritage and the article examines three of them. The central topic of such
discourses is the relationship between host and visitors, and how it produces
different attitudes to tourism and different degrees of involvement with it.
Tourism here serves as a metaphor to examine how localities experience
processes of globalisation.
Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies, Jan 1, 2005
This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradi... more This article examines the attitudes of the indigenous people in Markovo, Chukotka, to their tradition and traditional knowledge as it relates to their becoming adult members in the community. Within the local cosmological system the opposition between the elders, who are considered as ...
Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, Jan 1, 2009
East European Jewish Affairs, Jan 1, 2008
The past, cultural landscape and identity in migrant …, Jan 1, 2005
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Papers by marina hakkarainen
group had a special economic niche of entrepreneurship within
which artisanship and trade were activities of the majority. That is
why money played an important role. Money was also a significant component for social relations and culture within the Jewish
community. The Soviet rule abolished private entrepreneurship,
and therefore the market and money changed their meaning and
value too. The changes influenced upon the different parts of the
Jewish community in a crucial way. The article turns to Jewish family
stories where the former economic entrepreneurial activities
of previous generations came into contradiction with Soviet values.
It takes into consideration three places of social collision: the metropolitan
city of St Petersburg, the former Pale of Settlement and
movement from the periphery to the centre. These cases show different
paths of social transformations and the formation of loyalties
within different parts of the Russian Jewish community in connection
to Soviet power. Attitudes to money acts as a lens for revealing
the relationships between Soviet rule, society and ethnic
identity, and how they are seen by people who conceptualise the
Soviet experience of their relatives and themselves today. The data
used was collected in St Petersburg and small towns of Podolia
(Ukraine) in 2000–2010s.
Keywords: economic anthropology, money relations, Soviet domestic
economy, Soviet entrepreneurship, history of Jews in Russia.
В статье анализируются нарративы русскоговорящих молодых людей, в ко-торых они рассказывают о своем детском опыте иммиграции и интеграции в новое общество в Финляндии. Важнейшим способом репрезентации этого опыта оказываются рассказы о друзьях и дружбе, через которые молодые люди определяют пространство миграции и межгрупповые отношения в принимающей стране, а также свой личный успех в отношениях с окружающим их первоначально чужим сообществом. В процессе анализа я обращаюсь к специфике концептуализации дружеских отношений в русском языке и культуре и прихожу к выводу, что в силу этой специфики концепт дружбы как символа близких отношений оказывается для молодых людей весьма эффективным способом измерения интеграционной динамики — отчужденно-сти и близости отношений с изначально чужим сообществом. Ключевые слова: нарративы об иммиграции, русскоязычные иммигранты, Финляндия, молодежь, интеграция, дружба
movement began a dialogue with local communities in the former Pale of
Settlement in Ukraine about Jewish heritage. Nowadays many localities take
into account Jewish heritage as a resource to attract visitors, first of all
researchers of Jewish tradition, Hasidic pilgrims and people of local origin who
emigrated abroad. It could be a foundation for the development of tourism.
However, communities use different discursive strategies concerning Jewish
heritage and the article examines three of them. The central topic of such
discourses is the relationship between host and visitors, and how it produces
different attitudes to tourism and different degrees of involvement with it.
Tourism here serves as a metaphor to examine how localities experience
processes of globalisation.
group had a special economic niche of entrepreneurship within
which artisanship and trade were activities of the majority. That is
why money played an important role. Money was also a significant component for social relations and culture within the Jewish
community. The Soviet rule abolished private entrepreneurship,
and therefore the market and money changed their meaning and
value too. The changes influenced upon the different parts of the
Jewish community in a crucial way. The article turns to Jewish family
stories where the former economic entrepreneurial activities
of previous generations came into contradiction with Soviet values.
It takes into consideration three places of social collision: the metropolitan
city of St Petersburg, the former Pale of Settlement and
movement from the periphery to the centre. These cases show different
paths of social transformations and the formation of loyalties
within different parts of the Russian Jewish community in connection
to Soviet power. Attitudes to money acts as a lens for revealing
the relationships between Soviet rule, society and ethnic
identity, and how they are seen by people who conceptualise the
Soviet experience of their relatives and themselves today. The data
used was collected in St Petersburg and small towns of Podolia
(Ukraine) in 2000–2010s.
Keywords: economic anthropology, money relations, Soviet domestic
economy, Soviet entrepreneurship, history of Jews in Russia.
В статье анализируются нарративы русскоговорящих молодых людей, в ко-торых они рассказывают о своем детском опыте иммиграции и интеграции в новое общество в Финляндии. Важнейшим способом репрезентации этого опыта оказываются рассказы о друзьях и дружбе, через которые молодые люди определяют пространство миграции и межгрупповые отношения в принимающей стране, а также свой личный успех в отношениях с окружающим их первоначально чужим сообществом. В процессе анализа я обращаюсь к специфике концептуализации дружеских отношений в русском языке и культуре и прихожу к выводу, что в силу этой специфики концепт дружбы как символа близких отношений оказывается для молодых людей весьма эффективным способом измерения интеграционной динамики — отчужденно-сти и близости отношений с изначально чужим сообществом. Ключевые слова: нарративы об иммиграции, русскоязычные иммигранты, Финляндия, молодежь, интеграция, дружба
movement began a dialogue with local communities in the former Pale of
Settlement in Ukraine about Jewish heritage. Nowadays many localities take
into account Jewish heritage as a resource to attract visitors, first of all
researchers of Jewish tradition, Hasidic pilgrims and people of local origin who
emigrated abroad. It could be a foundation for the development of tourism.
However, communities use different discursive strategies concerning Jewish
heritage and the article examines three of them. The central topic of such
discourses is the relationship between host and visitors, and how it produces
different attitudes to tourism and different degrees of involvement with it.
Tourism here serves as a metaphor to examine how localities experience
processes of globalisation.
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Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
Editors: Assmuth, L., Hakkarainen, M., Lulle, A., Siim, P.M. (Eds.)
Provides a timely contribution to public and academic discussions on intra-EU mobility and migration crises Builds on rich empirical data collected across several years of focused ethnographic research with migrant children and their familiesCombines cases of privileged childhoods with the viewpoint of less privileged families in the age of global migration