Jaana Vuori, professor of Gender Studies, University of Eastern Finland gives an open lecture during the conference "Migration and Discipline: Civic Fostering of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body".
Jaana Vuori
Professor of Gender Studies, University of Eastern Finland
Jaana works as a professor in Gender Studies and responsible professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Vuori’s research focuses on migrant integration work, especially public service interpreting. Additionally, Vuori researches how parenting and the family are framed in relation to categories of gender and sexuality. Methodologically, Vuori specializes in in qualitative research methods, among these discourse analysis and ethnography.
In 2009, I published a very critical discourse analysis on how gender issues and ethnicity were intertwined in guide books produced for migrants and professionals working with them. Since then, the amount of information materials, both in written form and as videos has expanded a great deal. In addition, they are not produced only from the perspective of the “official society” but also from a more grass root level perspective, including also the perspective of migrants or ethnic-linguistic minorities. Gender equality, for example, is no more “already accomplished” but it is under constant construction and “rainbow families” are depicted as a central phenomenon in the society. In my talk, I try to dig me deeper into the current edifying migrant integration materials by asking how gender and sexuality are embedded into our understanding about society.