Name: Roundtable: Dispossessions. Unmaking and remaking of homes in displacement
Start: 2025-10-22T14:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-10-22T16:00:00+03:00
Location: Soc&Kom (Snellmaninkatu 12), room 209

Roundtable: Dispossessions. Unmaking and remaking of homes in displacement
With Friedemann Yi-Neumann (University of Helsinki), Andrei Vazyanau (European University of Humanities) & Laura Mankki (University of Eastern Finland) moderated by Olga Tkach (University of Helsinki)
Date & Time: October 22, 14-16
Venue: Soc&Kom (Snellmaninkatu 12), room 209
Dispossessions are often associated with war zones or precarious, exploitative conditions in the Global South. However, people fleeing their homes often experience dispossessions repeatedly, and these do not necessarily stop in Europe. Based on Crafting Refuge (Yi-Neumann, 2025), this roundtable asks:
-How do dispossessions materialize in the short and long term?
-How do they affect people’s capacity for home-making in displacement?
-What do migrants think about it and what can researchers do about it?
The participants will elaborate on the material and personal dimensions of, as well as the multiple types and contexts in which dispossessions occur or are committed in different contexts, sometimes next door. It will be further assessed how dispossessions accumulate and the chronic and “all-taking” crises this causes, along with personal and collective attempts at repossession, as well as fields and ways in which we need to understand this highly understudied phenomenon.
The roundtable is organised by "Life-Breaking and Life-Making: A research project on Social Reproduction and Survival in Times of Collapse" (LIFEMAKE, Kone Foundation, 2023-2026).