Decolonising Social Work in Finland

Introduction - Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkoe


Part 1: Exploring Coloniality in the Finnish Social Work Field


1. Between a Rock and Hard Place: Discussing Sami Issues in Contemporary Finland: A Conversation With Anneristen Juuso - Anneristen Juuso (Anni-Kristiina Juuso)


2. Welfare State Nationalism, Family Reunification and Forced Migrants' Strategies To Surpass Structural Violence - Camilla Nordberg, Joa Hiitola, Hanna Kara and Maija Jaeppinen


3. Contesting Universalism in Finnish Health and Social Services: Experiences of Migrant Parents With a Disabled Child - Eveliina Heino, Hanna Kara and Annika Lillrank


4. Homonationalism and Talking Back in Finnish Social Work with Non-Heterosexual People with Refugee Background - Inka Soederstroem,


5. Social workers' perceptions on structural challenges for minorities' social care - Kati Turtiainen and Merja Anis


6. Deconstructing racialised and cultural otherisation with young people through pluralistic arts-based social work - Enni Mikkonen


Part 2: Naming and Confronting Epistemic and Structural Injustice


7. Silence So Loud It Hurts: Racialisation, Erasure, and Future-Building in Finnish Social Work -


Koko Hubara


8. Transcultural Mental Health As the Colonisation of Racialised Bodies: A Personal Insight - Fadumo Dayib and Kris Clarke


9. Emergent Healing Spaces: Decolonising Healing and Wellness in Finland - Wambui Njuguna


10. Intersectional Knowledge Practices in Academia From Marginal Positions: Testimonios From Researchers of Colour in Finland - Smarika KC, Priscilla Osei and Kris Clarke


Part 3: Reimaging Caring and Social Work Futurities


11. Counter Archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care - Lena Sawyer, Kris Clarke and Nana Osei-Kofi


12. Post-professional social work? Decolonising social work professionalism through the engagement of community health workers -Saana Raittila-Salo


13. Decolonising Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonisation, and Social Work Futurities - Michael Yellow Bird, and Holly Hatton-Bowers


Conclusion - Kris Clarke, Leece Lee-Oliver and Satu Ranta-Tyrkkoe