... Finland, where approximately 40,000 people sought asylum during that time; the previous number had been a maximum of 6,000 people per year (Migri, 2017a, b ; Jauhiainen, 2017). The debates became inflamed in the media, social media in particular, where the situation was described as “an asylum seeker...

... ; UN General Assembly, 1948, 1979). The equal pay principle is also included in the Finnish legislation and especially in the Act on Equality between Women and Men 1986/609 (1986). It is indeed a human right and mandatory for those states that have ratified the conventions to implement. Finland...

... on the local level and in a way that connects to participants’ realities and experiences. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Finland Workplace Gender Gender equality Gender segregation Democratic dialogue Experiences Workplace democracy The Nordic countries have both a strong...

... policy Finland While sociologists have contributed to a long‐running critique of medical power, it has seldom been conceptualised as a problem for democracy. This neglect is related to the fact that the sociology of professions has generally operated with a narrow conception of the state...

... This article argues for the added value of historicised, gender and culture sensitive analysis of the tensions between policy aims, educational, occupational and unionist orders for understanding reconfiguration through inequality‐producing processes. Nursing Social welfare Professional services Finland...