Berfin Nur Osso
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Berfin Nur Osso
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Postdoctoral Researcher at REBOUND project @helsinki.fi | migrant workers in green transition

LLD @helsinki.fi; MSocSc, Tampere; LLB, Koç | migration, borders, human rights, justice, socio-legal, visuality, #Cartoonist | portfoliosso.com
🤔Wait, what do you mean you use refugee paintings and social media in legal research?
📌In a fresh article published #openaccess in Ethnicities, I explain how I explored refugees’ visual artifacts to understand their experiences with migration management in Lesvos.

More here👉🏼 doi.org/10.1177/1468...
August 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🚨Happy to share my new #openaccess article "A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for 'Access' at the EU's Physical, Legal, and Social Borders" in Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, part of SI "Migration Crises with Adjectives".
🔗 lnkd.in/drEMQWUb
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Arrived in Seoul yesterday, looking forward to attending @ipsa.org #IPSA2025 World Congress! Tomorrow at 17.30 I will present the first paper from my postdoctoral project. 🇰🇷🗼

The paper delves into the justness of the EU green transition from the perspective of migrant workers in the Finnish Arctic.
July 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Save the date! We’re organizing a launch seminar for ‘JUST-BOUND–Justice Beyond Boundaries’, a key research focus within the REBOUND - Just Green Transition project.

📆 17 April 2025
🕚 11.00am to 12.00pm EEST
📍 Porthania building @helsinki.fi center campus, P545 & Online

More info👉🏼 lnkd.in/dfcnzqJR
April 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
First ever conference as a doctor! Yesterday I arrived in Chicago to attend #ISA2025 @isanet.bsky.social on March 2-6.
I will chair a session on the politics of migration and asylum & present my forthcoming article on the EU’s migration management crisis.
Now exploring the city before the big event.
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
One week, one article from my doctoral thesis:
3️⃣ Narratives of Agency: Understanding the Refugee Experience through Paintings at the EU’s External Borders

I explore how refugee-produced paintings in Lesvos represent border experiences and struggles & become refugees’ voices.
doi.org/10.18357/big...
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
One week, one article from my doctoral thesis:
1️⃣ Unpacking the Safe Third Country Concept in the European Union, published in 2023 in IJRL

In this article, I explore the EU STC concept as a bordering tool and its implications for refugees’ (in)ability to seek & enjoy asylum.
doi.org/10.1093/ijrl...
January 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Last Friday, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis on migration management and refugee struggles at the EU external borders!

My heartfelt gratitude to my opponent @myrmek.bsky.social who raised important and critical questions & my supervisors @panuminkkinen.bsky.social and Dr Päivi Neuvonen.
January 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM