Gendered Framing of Asylum Reception as “borderwork” at the Finnish-Swedish Borderland
Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa (2024-10-24)
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24.10.2024
Prokkola, E.-K. (2024). Gendered framing of asylum reception as “borderwork” at the finnish-swedish borderland. In Z. Feghali & D. Toner, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands (1st ed., pp. 131–143). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006770-17
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands on 23 October 2024, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003006770. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Abstract
This chapter examines gendered practices and imaginings regarding control, protection, and care at national borders with a specific focus on the Finnish-Swedish borderland, which became an important migration route during the 2015 “long summer of migration.” The chapter explores the visual media narratives of women and men in the organization and mundane practices of asylum reception at the borderland. Asylum reception is understood as a “borderwork” and the chapter’s analytical focus is on the many gendered expectations, norms, and duties that emerged regarding asylum reception in the Finnish media and how they can be interpreted against the country’s pervasive, ethnicity-based nation-building process. Finland gained independence from Russia in 1917, and in the identity narratives of the nation, the protection of borders and borderlands has held powerful symbolic meaning, including specific social roles and responsibilities for women and men. The visual images of the everyday activities through which the border institution is practiced and maintained – including both humanitarian and security work in the reception of asylum seekers – are entangled with the gendered and multisided production of the political and cultural identity of the state.
This chapter examines gendered practices and imaginings regarding control, protection, and care at national borders with a specific focus on the Finnish-Swedish borderland, which became an important migration route during the 2015 “long summer of migration.” The chapter explores the visual media narratives of women and men in the organization and mundane practices of asylum reception at the borderland. Asylum reception is understood as a “borderwork” and the chapter’s analytical focus is on the many gendered expectations, norms, and duties that emerged regarding asylum reception in the Finnish media and how they can be interpreted against the country’s pervasive, ethnicity-based nation-building process. Finland gained independence from Russia in 1917, and in the identity narratives of the nation, the protection of borders and borderlands has held powerful symbolic meaning, including specific social roles and responsibilities for women and men. The visual images of the everyday activities through which the border institution is practiced and maintained – including both humanitarian and security work in the reception of asylum seekers – are entangled with the gendered and multisided production of the political and cultural identity of the state.
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