Decolonising Social Work in Finland

Kris Clarke is Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Leece Lee Oliver is a Native American scholar, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of American Indian Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö is a University Lecturer in the discipline of social work in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Introduction – Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö
Part 1: Exploring Coloniality in the Finnish Social Work Field
1. Between a Rock and Hard Place: Discussing Sámi Issues in Contemporary Finland: A Conversation With Ánneristen Juuso – Ánneristen Juuso (Anni-Kristiina Juuso)
2. Welfare State Nationalism, Family Reunification and Forced Migrants’ Strategies To Surpass Structural Violence – Camilla Nordberg, Joa Hiitola, Hanna Kara and Maija Jäppinen
3. Contesting Universalism in Finnish Health and Social Services: Experiences of Migrant Parents With a Disabled Child – Eveliina Heino, Hanna Kara and Annika Lillrank
4. Homonationalism and Talking Back in Finnish Social Work with Non-Heterosexual People with Refugee Background – Inka Söderström,
5. Social workers’ perceptions on structural challenges for minorities’ social care – Kati Turtiainen and Merja Anis
6. Deconstructing racialised and cultural otherisation with young people through pluralistic arts-based social work - Enni Mikkonen
Part 2: Naming and Confronting Epistemic and Structural Injustice
7. Silence So Loud It Hurts: Racialisation, Erasure, and Future-Building in Finnish Social Work -
Koko Hubara
8. Transcultural Mental Health As the Colonisation of Racialised Bodies: A Personal Insight – Fadumo Dayib and Kris Clarke
9. Emergent Healing Spaces: Decolonising Healing and Wellness in Finland – Wambui Njuguna
10. Intersectional Knowledge Practices in Academia From Marginal Positions: Testimonios From Researchers of Colour in Finland – Smarika KC, Priscilla Osei and Kris Clarke
Part 3: Reimaging Caring and Social Work Futurities
11. Counter Archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care – Lena Sawyer, Kris Clarke and Nana Osei-Kofi
12. Post-professional social work? Decolonising social work professionalism through the engagement of community health workers -Saana Raittila-Salo
13. Decolonising Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonisation, and Social Work Futurities – Michael Yellow Bird, and Holly Hatton-Bowers
Conclusion - Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö