Dislocations of Civic Cultural Borderlines

Chapter 1. Introduction; Pirkkoliisa Ahponen.- PART I. Belonging to Membership: changing Frames of Citizenship.- Chapter 2. Living in an Age of Migration and Diasporas; Zygmunt Bauman.- Chapter 3. Contents of Citizenship? Multiple Citizens' Orientations towards Nationality and Different forms of Citizenship; Jussi Ronkainen.- PART II. Studying Dislocations: From Methodological Nationalism to Methodological Cosmopolitanism.- Chapter 4. Which Side?: young Multicultural Generation Facing Nationalistic Research Frameworks; Päivi Harinen and Antti Kivijärvi.- Chapter 5. Embodied and Moral Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Opposition to the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: A Micro-Analytical Perspective; Sofia Laine.- Chapter 6. Political Transnationalism as a Matter of Belongings: Young Kurds in Finland; Mari Toivanen.- Chapter 7. Marginal Actors? Diaspora Somalis Negotiate their Citizenship; Mulki Al-Shamani and Cindy Horst.- PART III. Complex Preconditions of Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Toward Learning Society.- Chapter 8. Dilemmas of Cosmopolitan Education in the Context of Transnationalism; Devorah Kalekin-Fishman.- Chapter 9. The Internationalisation of higher Education: Multicultural, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Perspectives Approached; Anna Medvedeva and Pirkkoliisa Ahponen.- Chapter 10. Is Education Still Enough? Skilled Sub-Saharan Africans Face the Nordic Labour Market; Mathias Ebot.- Chapter 11. From Locals to Cosmopolitans: Transferring the Territorial Dimensions of Cultural Citizenship; Pirkkoliisa Ahponen.- Chapter 12. Afterwords: Päivi Harinen.

Pirkkoliisa Ahponen (Ph.D.) Professor (Emerita) Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. Her earlier research dealt with every day-life issues and comparative evaluations of institutional cultural policy. The current research topics concern problems of politics of culture and socio-cultural border-crossings with aims to decrease alienation and advance social and cultural equality of transnational citizens. Expertise of environmental policy issues in developing countries is included in her current interest areas from the theoretical perspective of risks to reflexive modernization. Recent articles include: "Miserable or Golden Karelia? Interpreting a Cross-border Excursion of Students from Finland to Russia". Journal of Borderland Studies vol. 26. nr. 2. 2011, 2159-1229, and "A Cultural Transformation: The Design of Alienation in the Guise of Creativity" in Devorah Kalekin-Fishman & Ann Denis (eds.) The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century. Tradition and Renewal. (2012) SAGE. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore & Washington DC, 254-266. Päivi Harinen (Ph.D.) University lecturer of sociology Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland Her research has focused on young people's societal and cultural memberships, as well as discrimination and racism as forms of social isolating. Her contemporary research deals with diaspora citizenship in different societal contexts and states.

Päivi Harinen (Dr.Soc.Sc) works as a University Lecturer for sociology at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests deal with social inequality defined by age, ethnicity, and place of residence.

Ville-Samuli Haverinen (M.Soc.Sc.). Previously (2012-2014), Haverinen has worked as a Junior Researcher in a four-year research project entitled Context of Diaspora Citizenship - Transnational Networks, Social Participation and Social Identification of Somalis in Finland and in the U.S. at the University of Eastern