Saara Pellander

Saara Pellander is Director of the Migration Institute of Finland. She is Doctor of Social Sciences and holds the title of Associate Professor (Title of Docent) in Political History at the University of Helsinki. She is currently involved as work package leader in two consortium projects funded by the Strategic Research Council of Finland, the Transforming Immigration Systems for Future Skills (TRIM) project as well as a project on Diversity, Trust, and Two-Way Integration (Mobile Futures). She has worked and published on issues related to the regulation of cross-border intimacies as well as media representations of (forced) migration. See more on her work at:

https://siirtolaisuusinstituutti.fi/en/person/saara-pellander/