Sharing domestic space in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland: intimacy, boundaries and identity work.
In Finland, a grassroots initiative for accommodating asylum-seeking migrants in local homes took off in 2015. This hospitable initiative is about offering asylum seekers the chance to live with locals during the asylum process rather than in a reception centre. Drawing on the voices of local hosts,...
| Published in: | Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Vol. 31; no. 12; pp. 1755 - 1777 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2024
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