Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula

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Work in the kebab economy

Immigrants from Turkey often end up as self-employed or employees in the fast-food and restaurant sector in Finland. The concept of ethnic economy describes the employment pattern in this particular economic sector. The article suggests that substantial state involvement is not necessarily in conflict with the existence of ethnic economies, and in some instances welfare state policies may even support the creation of ethnic economies. The article discusses both positive and negative consequences of an ethnic economy for the employees in the `kebab economy'. Since the Finnish general labour market is, for the most part, closed to immigrants, Turkish employees end up in a situation where they work under bad working conditions in kebab shops, hoping one day to be able to start their own business. The results of the study highlight the importance of the wider economic, institutional and social contexts in which immigrant businesses operate

GLOBAL MINDSET IN GLOBAL LEADERS: How to Develop It and Which Individual Factors Affect the Process?

The modern globalised business world requires new kinds of leaders and employees. As organisations’ successfulness is rather dependent on effective leadership, it is of the upmost importance to be able to find and develop leaders who can thrive in today’s complex and multicultural business environment. The key factor that is suggested to separate local and global managers is global mindset and in this thesis it is defined as having two distinct parts; cultural intelligence and global business orientation. Because there is no widely concurred definition for global mindset, this thesis will aim at studying how well the utilised definition matches with a definition offered by global leaders themselves. In addition, as companies are very motivated to find ways to detect and develop global mindset in their managers and overall employees, this thesis will concentrate on finding concrete ways to develop global mindset. Yet, it is not enough to know how to increase employees’ global mindset; companies do not have the resources to offer similar development initiates to their whole personnel. Therefore, organisations would gain from knowing who would benefit the most from a certain development method. Additionally, this thesis aims at finding individual factors that can affect a person’s ability and likelihood to develop global mindset. In order to reach these three research aims, this thesis will conduct a literature review concerning the development methods and individual factors and compare its results to an empirical data offered by ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with global leaders. As earlier research about these issues is rather limited, this thesis will utilise research conducted about global leadership and expatriate development.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

Finnish Civil Servants on Harmonization in the Asylum System: A Study in Horizontal Europeanization

This article presents a Finnish perspective on harmonization within the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). The article analyses results from a study of the judgments and experiences of Finnish civil servants concerning the harmonization of the CEAS. The year 2015 constitutes a shift in asylum policies in many European countries, and a key question is how this shift has influenced the process of harmonization of asylum policies and practices. Senior civil servants working in the state administration of asylum and migration issues in Finland were interviewed anonymously as part of a comparative European research project (CEASEVAL). The interviews indicate that EU‐wide administrative cooperation has developed into a broad and diverse cooperation in recent years. The interviewees in Finland generally found harmonization of the asylum system to be necessary, which was connected to a need for greater predictability of the outcomes of the system. The results of the study suggest that Finnish asylum administration is developing toward harmonized practices involving transnational and supranational administrative cooperation in the field of asylum. The results support the conclusion of previous research that there is a process of horizontal Europeanization in which administrative practices develop organically within national asylum administration, independently of political disagreements at the EU level. This is relevant both to the framing of political issues and to research on Finnish migration and asylum policies, which need to take into account the ongoing European harmonization of policies and administrative practices.Peer reviewe

Ethnic boundary making among Swedish migrants in Helsinki

This is a study of ethnic boundary-making strategies promoted by Swedish migrants in Finland. The results are based on interviews with a sample of migrants in Helsinki without previous personal connection to Finland. The interviewees can be considered privileged migrants, and the study provides new information on the strategies of ethnic boundary making promoted by members of privileged ethnic groups. In Helsinki, the migrants from Sweden navigate a social field with local ethnic boundaries, including an autochthonous Swedish-speaking minority. Despite social integration in Finnish society, the migrants choose the strategy of boundary blurring, whereby the interviewees wished to question the importance of ethnic and national belonging. This choice of strategy can be explained by the ambivalence they experience in navigating the local ethnic categories and language policies. Thus, the results describe how societal structures shape individual strategies of ethnic boundary making.Peer reviewe

Combining Mixed Embeddedness and Transnationalism : The Utilization of Social Resources among Turkish Migrant Entrepreneurs

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True Finns and Non-True Finns : The Minority Rights Discourse of Populist Politics in Finland

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The Transferability and Mobilisability of Transnational Resources : The case of Turkish entrepreneurs in Finland

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