Forced Migration and Separated Families

Marja Tiilikainen received her PhD in study of religions from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2003, and the title of associate professor (docent) in the same subject in 2011.  She is a senior research fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland. Her research has focused on such issues as Muslim minorities; everyday lived religion; the cultural dimensions of health, illness, and healing; everyday security; and transnational family life. She recently led the research project ‘Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security: Experiences and Strategies of Vulnerable Migrants’, funded by the Academy of Finland (2018 ̶ 2022). Johanna Hiitola (PhD, associate professor) is the director of gender studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research includes intersectional feminist family studies, migrant integration, interpersonal violence, forced migration studies, citizenship scholarship, family separation of forced migrants and, most recently, DNA testing for genetic ancestry. She has recently conducted research as part of the Academy of Finland–funded project ‘Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security’ (2018 ̶ 2022). Abdirashid A. Ismail holds a DSc in economics (2010) from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. He has recently been a senior researcher and research fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland and was part of the Academy of Finland–funded research project ‘Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security’. He is also an economics policy fellow with the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia. His research interests span two broad fields: immigration and diaspora studies and political economy of conflict and state formation. Jaana Palander has a master’s degree in administrative sciences (2008) and is currently completing her doctoral studies in public law at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her doctoral thesis deals with human rights and family reunification. Currently, she teaches migration law and human rights law at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. Recently, she has been a researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland in the project ‘Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security’, funded by the Academy of Finland.

Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. From Forced Migration to the Forced Separation of Families.- Chapter 2. International Human Rights Frameworks in Relation to National Family Reunification Policy and Administrative Practice.- Part II: Everyday Insecurities Faced by Transnationally Separated Families.- Chapter 3. Recognizing Insecurities of Family Members Abroad: Human Rights Balancing in European and Finnish Case Law.- Chapter 4. 'There is no family here': Refugees' Strategies for Family Reunification in São Paulo.- Chapter 5. 'She Died While Missing Us': Experiences of Family Separation Among African Refugees in Israel.- Chapter 6. For the Greater Good: The Economic and Social Impacts of Irregular Migration on Families in Benin City, Nigeria.- Chapter 7. 'Mum, I Sleep Under a Bridge': Everyday Insecurities of the Families of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Somalia.- Part III: Affective Responses and Waiting for Family Reunification.- Chapter 8. Mapping Conditions of (In)security for 'Dreamer Parents' at the Mexico-US Border.- Chapter 9. Gendered Family Dynamics, Waiting and Mobilities Across Borders: Syrian Refugees Navigating Displacement in Jordan.- Chapter 10. 'Doing Family' as a Separated Household: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Lebanon.- Chapter 11. Navigating Affective (In)securities: Forced Migration and Transnational Family Relationships.- Chapter 12. Forced Migration and Evolving Responses to Queer Identity in the Muslim Family.