Chair: Saara Pellander (Tampere University) Board Members: Gwenaëlle Bauvois (CEREN, University of Helsinki) Johanna Ennser-Kananen (University of Jyväskylä) Saija Niemi (University of Helsinki) Emma Nortio (University of Helsinki) Teemu Pauha (University of Helsinki) Minna Seikkula (CEREN, University of Helsinki) Mari Toivanen (CEREN, University of Helsinki) Elina Turjanmaa (University of Helsinki) Matti Välimäki (University of Turku) Deputy...

14-15th November 2019 Tampere University, Tampere, Finland The conference addresses different meanings and concrete practices of solidarity, participation, and politics and their effects in the context of global mobility and ethnic relations. The organizing committee invites scholars from various disciplines, practitioners, film-makers, artists and activists to discuss solidarity, participation and politics in the context of global mobility and...

The ETMU Award is granted annually in recognition of a major contribution to the promotion of or research on ethnic relations and international migration in Finland. The ETMU Award 2018 was granted to Koko Hubara and the Ruskeat Tytöt (Brown Girls) Collective at the ETMU Conference at Åbo Akademi University on November 16, 2018. Koko Hubara and the Ruskeat Tytöt Collective have provided a medium for racialized Finns to make their voice heard in...

The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) announces a call for travel grant applications, funded by the Annika Forsander Memorial Fund, to support the participation of PhD researchers in international research conferences. The applicants must be members of ETMU, and their research topic must be related to the field that ETMU represents, i.e. the study of ethnic relations and international migration. The...

PLAN’s campaign reproduces the problematic imagery of a “white savior”   The antiracist research network RASTER has challenged ETMU to take a stance towards the campaign of PLAN International Finland, where a 12-year old pregnant Zambian girl is featured in fashion photographs. The campaign has been criticized for spreading colonial representations (see, for example, the campaign by SahWira Africa International, the statements by RASTER and the...