About Maritta Oikarinen-Jabai
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Helena Oikarinen-Jabai is a researcher, educator and freelance journalist. She has long experience in using artistic methods when working with minority children, youth and women in different communities (e.g. in Finland, Sweden, Guyana, the Gambia a
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Helena Oikarinen-Jabai is a researcher, educator and freelance journalist. She has long experience in using artistic methods when working with minority children, youth and women in different communities (e.g. in Finland, Sweden, Guyana, the Gambia and Tanzania). In her Art Education Ph.D. thesis Boundary spaces and dissonant voices: Performative writing in between Finland and Gambia she portrays experiences of moving in transnational and in between spaces by using performative research and writing methods. Within her postdoctoral research project “A Finn, a Foreigner or a Transnational Hip-hopper?” she
concentrates on belongings and identifications of Finnish second-generation immigrant youth. Her special interest is in creating rhizomes in-between different ways of knowing and expressing knowledge through narrative and art-based methods
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