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Affective Conflict Transportation? Everyday Presence of Conflict among People of Somali Origin in Finland

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article explores conflict transportation among people with a Somali background in Finland by focusing on how it is felt every day. By focusing on affect, the article highlights the contradictive and differentiated dynamics at play in conflict transportation and how it is located and navigated in everyday practices. The findings show how conflict transportation is simultaneously reinforced and resisted as well as how it is a non-static, fluid phenomenon that is experienced day-to-day life as well as tied deeply to belonging. The article argues that an affective approach to conflict transportation helps undo essentialising notions of diasporic spaces and calls for research on diasporas and conflict that is also located outside of politically mobilised diasporic spaces.

Source: Nordic Journal of Migration Research

DOI: 10.33134/njmr.768

Author: Cæcilie Svop Jensen

Institutions: Tampere University, University of Tampere

Language: English

Topic: Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Academy of Finland