Marko Kananen, PhD, is a researcher at Juvenia – Youth Research and Development Centre at the South Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. His research interests include immigration, civic participation and transnational identities.
Yasemin Kontkanen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. Her current research focus is Somali entrepreneurs in Finland and in the United States where her research interests are societal membership of immigrants, diasporic identities and entrepreneurship.