Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in Sociology
Swedish School of Social Science
University of Helsinki
FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
Telephone: +358-9-19128489
http://sockom.helsinki.fi/english/index.html
Education, Qualification and Training
University of Tampere, Finland. Docent in Sociology, May 2006.
University of Warwick, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), Coventry, United Kingdom. PhD in Ethnic Relations, July 1998.
Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland. Faculty
of Economics and Political Science. Politices magister (Master of Political
Sciences), May 1992.
Relevant Employment Experience
2011 - 2012 Research Project Leader at the Swedish Literature Society of Finland (SLS)
2009 - to date Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (universitetslektor). Research leave in 2011-2012.
2006 - 2009 Åbo Akademi University, Department of Sociology, Åbo, Finland. Senior Lecturer in Sociology (akademilektor) .
2007 Academy of Finland, Academy Research Fellow (akademiforskare).
2001 - 2006 Åbo Akademi University, Department of
Sociology.
Associate Professor (överassistent) in Sociology.
1999 - 2001 Åbo Akademi University, Department of
Sociology.
Acting Senior Lecturer.
1998 - 1999 Åbo Akademi University, Department of
Sociology.
Acting Professor and Head of Department.
1997 - 1998 Institute of Migration, Åbo, Finland. Research Fellow.
1993-1997 University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER). PhD student.
Academic Teaching Experience
Examination of more than 25.000 study credits (ECTS) since the early 1990s. More than 70 large courses held in Sociology. Supervision of more than 30 approved MA theses and more than 50 approved BA theses in Sociology.
Expert Consultations
Examiner, Opponent or Member of Assessment Board for PhD theses at Göteborg University (Sweden); University of Helsinki; Jyväskylä University; Linköping University (Sweden); Oulu University; University of Tampere; University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
Expert or Reviewer: The Economic and Social Research Council (UK), European Science Foundation, Routledge Ltd (UK), the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, Sweden), the Austrian Science Fund and the Academy of Finland.
Editorial Boards
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2011-to date
Migration Letters: An International Journal of Migration Studies, 2004-to date
The Sociological Quarterly, 2004-2008
Reviews
Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnicities; European Journal of Cultural Studies; Gender, Work and Organization; Global Networks; Human Relations; International Migration; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of International Migration and Integration; Journal of Refugee Studies; Migration Letters; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences; Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Social Identities; The Sociological Quarterly; ...and a number of Finnish journals.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1999. Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities. London: Macmillan.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Katila, Saija & Wahlbeck, Östen. (E-published ahead of print) "The Role of (Transnational) Social Capital in the Start-up Processes of Immigrant Businesses". International Small Business Journal. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242610383789
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008 "Entrepreneurship as Social Status: Turkish Immigrants' Experiences of Self-Employment in Finland". Migration Letters 5 (1): 53-62 . Available at http://www.migrationletters.com/
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2007. "Work in the Kebab Economy: A Study of the Ethnic Economy of Turkish Immigrants in Finland". Ethnicities, 7 (4): 543-563. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796807084016
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2005. "Turkkilaiset maahanmuuttajat yrittäjinä Suomessa. Paikallinen ja transnationaali sosiaalinen pääoma". Janus - Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 13 (1), 39-53. Available at http://www.sosiaalipoliittinenyhdistys.fi/janus/2005_1.html
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2002. "The Concept of Diaspora as an Analytical Tool in the Study of Refugee Communities". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28, 2: 221 - 238. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691830220124305
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2002. "Refugees in Finland: Figures and Discourses". Migration: A European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations. 36/37/38, 151 - 164.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1999. "Flyktingforskning och begreppet diaspora. Att studera en transnationell social verklighet". Sosiologia 36, 4, 269-279. Available at: http://elektra.helsinki.fi/se/s/0038-1640/36/4/flykting.pdf
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. "Community Work and Exile Politics: Kurdish Refugee Associations in London". Journal of Refugee Studies 11, 3, 215-230. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/11.3.215
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1996. "Diasporic Relations and Social Exclusion: The Case of Kurdish Refugees in Finland". Siirtolaisuus-Migration 23, 4, 7-15.
Chapters in Edited Books
Martikainen, Tuomas; Valtonen, Kathleen & Wahlbeck, Östen (in press) "The Social Integration of Immigrants in Finland". In Jim Frideres & John Biles (eds) International Perspectives: Integration and Inclusion. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2010. "Kebabyrittäjät - välittäjävähemmistö?" In Sirpa Wrede & Camilla Nordberg (eds) Vieraita työssä. Työelämän etnistyvä eriarvoisuus. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, pp 32-44.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008. "Integrated and marginalised? Self-employed Turkish immigrants in Finland". In H. Blomberg-Kroll et al. (eds) Sameness and Diversity: The Nordic Welfare State Model and the Integration of Immigrants in the Labour Market. Helsinki: Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki University. pp 279-304.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2007. "Turkish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Finland". In Leo Dana (ed.) Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 433-444.
Wahlbeck, Östen & Olsson, Erik. 2007. "Diaspora - ett berest begrepp". Ingår i Erik Olsson; Catarina Lundqvist; Annika Rabo; Lena Sawyer; Östen Wahlbeck & Lisa Åkesson. (eds) Transnationella rum - diaspora, migration och gränsöverskridande relationer. Umeå: Boréa, pp. 43 - 68.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2007. "The Kurds in Europe". In Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Brij Maharaj (eds.) Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader. New Delhi: Rawat Publication, pp. 443 - 471.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2004. "Kurds in Finland". In Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, & Ian Skoggard (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 1004 - 1010. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/m6134226026x5757/
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2004. "Turkish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Finland: Local Embeddedness and Transnational Ties". In Povrzanovic Frykman, Maja (ed.) Transnational Spaces: Disciplinary Perspectives. Malmö: IMER, Malmö Högskola, pp. 101-122. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2043/5229.
Wahlbeck, Östen. 2003. "Local Integration and the Globalization of Migration: Immigrants in Finland in the 1990s". In Forsander, Annika & Similä, Matti (eds) Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Nordic Welfare States. Helsinki: Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki University, pp. 45 - 50.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2002. "Kurds in Europe: From Labor Migrants to Asylum Seekers". In Mohammed M. A. Ahmed & Michael Gunter (eds.). Kurdish Exodus: From Internal Displacement to Diaspora. Sharon, Massachusetts: Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies. pp. 73 - 101.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1997. "The Kurdish Diaspora and Refugee Associations in Finland and England". In P. Muus (ed.) Exclusion and Inclusion of Refugees in Contemporary Europe. Utrecht: ERCOMER. pp. 171 - 186.
Book Editor
Olsson, Erik; Lundqvist, Catarina; Rabo, Annika; Sawyer, Lena; Wahlbeck, Östen & Åkesson, Lisa (eds.) 2007 Transnationella rum - diaspora, migration och gränsöverskridande relationer. Umeå: Boréa. (http://www.borea.nu/)
Wahlbeck, Ö. (ed.) 2007. Ny migration och etnicitet i Norden (Meddelanden från Ekonomisk-statsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Åbo Akademi, A:554). Åbo: Åbo Akademi. (the book can be ordered here)
Kauranen, R.; Oinas, E.; Sundback S. and Wahlbeck, Ö.
(eds) 1998.
Sociologer om sociologi och metod. Festskrift till Kirsti
Suolinna (Meddelanden från Ekonomisk-statsvetenskapliga fakulteten
vid Åbo Akademi, A:491). Åbo: Åbo Akademi.
Publications in University Series
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008. "Inträdet i finskt medborgarskap". In Lise Kanckos & Ralf Kauranen (eds.) Social samhörighet och religion. Festskrift till Susan Sundback. Åbo: Åbo Akademis förlag, 363-374.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008. "Citizenship and Immigration in Finland: The Nationality Act 2003 in Context." Canadian Diversity - Diversité Canadienne 6: 4, 47-50. (The publication can be ordered from: http://canada.metropolis.net/publications/index_e.htm)
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2007. "Inledning. Ny migration och nya etniska identiteter i de nordiska länderna." In Ö. Wahlbeck (ed.) Ny migration och etnicitet i Norden (Meddelanden från ESF, A:554). Åbo: Åbo Akademi, p. 5-12.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2007. "Den etniska ekonomin bland turkiska invandrare i Finland". In Ö. Wahlbeck (ed.) Ny migration och etnicitet i Norden (Meddelanden från ESF, A:554). Åbo: Åbo Akademi, p. 139-161. Available at: http://web.abo.fi/~owahlbec/Den etniska ekonomin.pdf
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2003. Mångkulturalism i Finland - en kritisk litteraturöversikt (Meddelanden från ESF, A 532). Åbo: Åbo Akademi University. Available at http://web.abo.fi/~owahlbec/mangfinl.htm
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. "Transnationalism and Diasporas: The Kurdish Example". Working Papers of the Transnational Communities Research Programme. Oxford: University of Oxford, Department of Anthropology. Available at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working_papers.htm.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. "Vart tog fältet vägen? Antropologiskt fältarbete i en global värld". In R. Kauranen et.al. (eds) Sociologer om sociologi och metod. Åbo: Åbo Akademi, pp. 39-52. Available at http://web.abo.fi/~owahlbec/Antropologiskt1998.pdf
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. "Refugee Studies and the Concept of Diaspora". In B. Nelhans and G. Lavery (eds) Ethnic Contact and Ethnic Conflict (Research Report No. 123, Department of Sociology). Göteborg: Göteborg University, pp. 121-134.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1992. Kvalitativ samhällsforskning
om flyktingmottagande - exemplet Oravais kommun (Institutet för
finlandssvensk samhällsforskning vid Åbo Akademi, forskningsrapport
nr 19) Vasa: Åbo Akademi.
Book Reviews, Research Notes and Overviews
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2011. "Svenskar i Finland –ett perspektiv från migrationsforskningen". Ingår i Josefin Almer och Ylva larsdotter (red.) Enkel biljett? Från Sverige till Finland med kärlek, längtan och vemod. Helsingfors: Söderströms förlag, s. 11-23. (http://www.soderstrom.fi/Book.php?id=1284760799)
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2011. "Skandinavisk invandringspolitik och välfärd" [Review of Grete Brochmann & Anniken Hagelund: Velferdens grenser. Universitetsforlaget, 2010]. Sosiologia, 48 (2011), 3: 279-280.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2011. [Review of] "Social Work and Migration: Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration by Kathleen Valtonen. Ashgate, 2008." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37: 4, 677-678.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2009. "Hembygd och hem i en global värld". Ingår i 100 år för Lojobygden. Lojo: Lojosamfundet. s. 33-38.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2009. [Review of] "Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008" . Migration Letters, 6, 2, 205-206.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2009. "Teoretiskt om invandrares integration" . Sosiologia 46, 4, 260-261.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008. "Svenska och finska minoriteter" [Review of: Marianne Junila & Charles Westin (red.) Mellan majoriteter och minoriteter SLS, Helsingfors 2006]. Finsk tidskrift, 6-7/2008, 361-365.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2008. "Eettiset kysymykset vähemmistöjen tutkimuksessa". Sosiologia, 45, 2, 154-156. Available at http://elektra.helsinki.fi/se/s/0038-1640/45/2/eettiset.pdf
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2005. [Review of] ”Minoo Alinia: Spaces of Diasporas. Göteborg Studies in Sociology, No. 22. Göteborg University, Göteborg 2004”. Sociologisk Forskning nr 2/2005, s. 68-72.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2004. [Review of] ’Anne Alitolppa-Niitamo: The Icebreakers: Somali-Speaking Youth in Metropolitan Helsinki with a Focus on the Context of Formal Education. Väestöliitto, Helsinki 2004’ Siirtolaisuus - Migration, 32, 4, s. 34-35.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2004. ’Somaliers vardagsliv i Finland’ [Review of Tiilikainen, Marja. Arjen islam. Somalinaisten elämää Suomessa. Vastapaino, Tampere. 2003]. Sosiologia 2/2004, s. 260-261. Available at http://elektra.helsinki.fi/se/s/0038-1640/41/3/somalier.pdf
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2003. ’Ulkomaalaisvirasto tehoton’. Helsingin Sanomat, 4.12.2003. p. A5.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2002. ’Laura Huttunen: Kotona, maanpaossa, matkalla. Kodin merkitykset maahanmuuttajien omaelämäkerroissa. SKS, Helsinki 2002.’ Siirtolaisuus - Migration, 29, 3, s. 30-31.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2002. ’Svensk globaliseringsintroduktion’ [Review of Håkan Thörn: Globaliseringens dimensioner. Nationalstat, världssamhälle, demokrati och sociala rörelser. Atlas, Stockholm 2002]. Sosiologia. 4/2002, 340-341.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 2001. ‘The predicament of Kurdish refugees and internally displaced Kurds’. [Tagungsberichte]. Kurdische Studien 1, no. 2, 185-188.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1999. [Review of] ‘Leskelä, Maarit (ed.): Outsiders or Insiders? Constructing Identities in an Integrating Europe. University of Turku: Turku 1999.’ Agricola - Suomen historiaverkko (http://www.utu.fi/agricola/).
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. ’Rasism som ideologi’. Åbo Underrättelser, 13.1.1998. p. 4.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. [Review of] ’Aleksandra Ålund: Multikultiungdom: Kön, etnicitet, identitet. Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1997’ Siirtolaisuus - Migration, 25, 2, 36-37.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1998. [Review of] ’Elsie C. Franzén: Invandring och arbetslöshet. Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1997’. Siirtolaisuus - Migration, 25, 1, 31-32.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1996. [Review of] ‘European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles. Asylum in Europe. Vol. 1. London, 1993. European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Asylum in Europe. Vol. 2. London, 1994’. New Community 22, 1 (January 1996), 171-172.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1995. ’Maanpaossa asuvat kurdit’. Denge Kurd - Kurdien Ääni, No 6-7 (spring 1995), p. 3-4.
Wahlbeck. Ö. 1993. ’Lågkonjunktur och främlingsfientlighet’. Vasabladet (10 August 1993). p. 7.
Wahlbeck, Ö. 1992. ’Aluksi oltiin ymmällään
- pakolaisiin kohdistuvien mielipiteiden muodostuminen on jatkuva prosessi’.
Pakolaisinfo,
3/1992, p 36-37.
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