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• Fighting segregation and homelessness among the most vulnerable through housing social work (SEGRA)
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• Geographies of Home-based Service Interactions at the Margins of Welfare in Finland and Sweden (GEOHOME)

Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Ilmoniemi, Mikko & Mäki, Jenni (2023) Paikastaan siirretyt: Kotipaikan menettäminen ja uuteen kiinnittyminen gentrifikaatioprosessissa [Displaced people: Losing one’s home place and attaching to a new one in the process of gentrification]. In Suvi Raitakari & Timo Harrikari & Marja Hekkala & Minna Kivipelto (eds.) Sosiaalityö kriiseissä ja poikkeuksellisissa olosuhteissa [Social work in crises and exceptional circumstances]. Jyväskylä: SoPhi, 61–91.

Juhila Kirsi (2022) Koti asiakkaan ja työntekijän kohtaamispaikkana [Home as a place of client-worker encounters]. In Suvi Raitakari, Kirsi Günther & Jenni-Mari Räsänen (eds.) Koti, hyvinvointityö ja haavoittuvuus [Home, welfare work and vulnerability]. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 59–84. 

Juhila Kirsi & Holmberg Suvi & Lydahl Doris & Hall Christopher (2022) Observing and Commenting on Clients’ Home Environments in Mobile Support Home Visit Interactions: Institutional Gaze, Normalization and Face-work. Housing, Theory and Society 39(1), 82-97. 

Juhila Kirsi & Raitakari Suvi & Ranta Johanna (2022) Housing First: Combatting Long-term Homelessness in Finland. In Caroline de La Porte, Guðný Björk Eydal, Jaakko Kauko, Daniel Nohrstedt, Paul ‘t Hart & Bent Sofus Tranøy (eds.) Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495–513. 

Juhila Kirsi & Hansen Löfstrand Cecilia & Ranta Johanna (eds) (2021) Home- and Community-Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches. Social Inclusion, special issue 9(3).

Juhila Kirsi & Dall Tanja & Hall Christopher & Koprowska Juliet (eds.) (2021) Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation: Analysing Meetings in Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press.Juhila Kirsi & Dall Tanja & Hall Christopher & Koprowska Juliet (eds.) (2021) Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation: Analysing Meetings in Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press.

Juhila Kirsi & Ranta Johanna & Raitakari Suvi & Banks Sarah (2021) Relational Autonomy and Service Choices in Social worker-Client Conversations in an Outpatient Clinic for People Using Drugs. British Journal of Social Work 15(1), 170–186.

Juhila Kirsi & Hansen Löfstrand Cecilia & Raitakari Suvi (2021) Devoted work without limits? Activities and premises of home visit work at the margins of community care. International Journal of Care and Caring 5(2), 247–262.

Juhila Kirsi & Raitakari Suvi & Hall Christopher (eds.) (2017) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services. London: Routledge. 

Jokinen Arja, Juhila Kirsi & Suoninen Eero (2016) Diskurssianalyysi: Teoriat, peruskäsitteet ja käyttö. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Juhila Kirsi & Hall Christopher & Raitakari Suvi (2016) Interaction During Mental Health Floating Support Home Visits: Managing Host-Guest and Professional-Client Identities in Home-spaces. Social and Cultural Geography 17(1), 101–119.

Juhila Kirsi & Kröger Teppo (eds.) (2016) Siirtymät ja valinnat asumispoluilla [Transitions and Choices in Housing Pathways]. Jyväskylä: SoPhi.

Juhila Kirsi & Günther Kirsi & Raitakari Suvi (2015) Negotiating Mental Health Rehabilitation Plans: Joint Future Talk and Clashing Time Talk in Professional Client Interaction. Time & Society 24(1), 5-26.

Juhila Kirsi & Hall Christopher & Günther Kirsi & Raitakari Suvi & Saario Sirpa (2015) Accepting and Negotiating Service Users’ Choices in Mental Health Transition Meetings. Social Policy & Administration 49(5), 612-630.

Hall Christopher & Juhila Kirsi & Matarese Maureen & van Nijnatten Carolus (eds.) (2014) Analysing Social Work Communication: Discourse in Practice. London: Routledge. 

Juhila Kirsi & Abrams Laura (2011) Special Issue Editorial: Constructing Identities in Social Work Settings. Qualitative Social Work 10(3), 277-292.

Hansen Löfstrand Cecilia & Juhila Kirsi (2012) The Discourse of Consumer Choice in the Pathways Housing First Model. European Journal of Homelessness 6(2), 47-68.

Jokinen Arja, Juhila Kirsi & Suoninen Eero (2012) Kategoriat, kulttuuri ja moraali – johdatus kategoria-analyysiin [Categories, Culture and Moral Order – Introduction to Categorisation Analysis]. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Hjörne Eva & Juhila Kirsi & van Nijnatten Carolus (2010) Negotiating Dilemmas in the Practices of Street-level Welfare Work (guest editorial). International Journal of Social Welfare 19(3), 303-309.

Juhila Kirsi (2006) Sosiaalityöntekijöinä ja asiakkaina. Sosiaalityön yhteiskunnalliset tehtävät ja paikat [As Social Workers and Clients. The Societal Functions and Places of Social Work]. Tampere: Vastapaino.  

Juhila Kirsi (2004) Talking Back to Stigmatised Identities. Negotiation of Culturally Dominant Categorizations in Interviews with Shelted Residents. Qualitative Social Work (3)3, 259-275.

Hall Christopher, Juhila Kirsi, Parton Nigel & Pösö Tarja (eds.) (2003) Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services. Interaction, Identities and Practices. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 

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Juhila, Kirsi & Morriss, Lisa & Raitakari, Suvi (2021) Negotiating epistemic rights to knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories in mental health meetings. In Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall & Juliet Koprowska (eds.) Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation: Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press, 171–195.

Juhila, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Caswell, Dorte & Dall, Tanja & Wilinska, Monika (2021) From a collaborative and integrated welfare polocy to fronline practices. In Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall & Juliet Koprowska (eds.) Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation: Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press, 9–31.

Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Raitakari, Suvi & Banks, Sarah (2021) Relational autonomy and service choices in social worker-client conversations in an outpatient clinic for people using drugs. British Journal of Social Work 15(1), 170–186. 

Kalari, Tuuli & Raitakari, Suvi (2021) Vuorovaikutuksen rikkoutuminen lapsen ja sosiaalityöntekijän haastattelukohtaamisessa [Disruption of interaction in an interview encounter between a child and a social worker]. Janus 29(3), 229–248.

Raitakari, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna & Saario, Sirpa (2021) Alignment and service user participation in low-threshold meetings with people using drugs. In Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall & Juliet Koprowska (eds.) Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation: Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press, 115–140.

Raitakari, Suvi (2019) Explaining Homelessness as a Movement Using Metaphors in European Academic Writings of Homelessness. Housing Studies, Volume 35(10) available first at the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2019.1680813 .

Raitakari, Suvi & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari & Kostiainen, Tuula & Juhila, Kirsi (2019) Integroiva työtapa muotoutuvassa perhekeskuskontekstissa : Kriittisten tekijöiden tarkastelua. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. [Integrative Work Orientation in Emerging Family Center] 

Raitakari, Suvi (2019) Using Expressions of Past, Present and Future Homelessness Pathways as a Linguistic Resource in Meeting Interaction in a Low-Threshold Outpatient Clinic. Housing, Theory and Society, 36(1), 25-43. Published online: 21 Nov 2017. 

Raitakari, Suvi & Holmberg, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari (2018) Constructing the Elements of the “Recovery in” Model through Positive Assessments during Mental Health Home Visits. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(7):1441. DOI:10.3390/ijerph15071441

Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari (2018) Responsibilisation, Social Work and Inclusive Social Security in Finland. European Journal of Social Work. DOI:10.1080/13691457.2018.1529660

Saario, Sirpa & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari & Raitakari, Suvi & Banks, Sarah & Juhila, Kirsi (2018) Doing ‘Ethics Work’ Together: Negotiating Service Users’ Independence in Community Mental Health Meetings. Ethics and Social Welfare. DOI:10.1080/17496535.2018.1533991

Juhila, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Hall, Christopher (2017) (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services. London: Routledge.

Juhila, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Hansen Löftstrand, Cecilia (2017) Responsibilisation in Governmentality Literature. In Kirsi Juhila & Suvi Raitakari & Christopher Hall (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services. London: Routledge, 11–34.

Juhila, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Hansen Löftstrand, Cecilia (2017) Responsibilities and Current Welfare Discourses. In Kirsi Juhila & Suvi Raitakari & Christopher Hall (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services. London: Routledge, 35–56.

Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila Kirsi & Hall, Christopher (2017) Conclusion. In Kirsi Juhila & Suvi Raitakari & Christopher Hall (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services. London: Routledge, 218-223.

Raitakari, Suvi & Günther, Kirsi (2017) Clients Accounting for the Responsible Self in Interviews. In Kirsi Juhila & Suvi Raitakari & Christopher Hall (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare. London: Routledge, 83-105.

Raitakari, Suvi & Permin Berger, Nichlas (2017) Making Active Citizens in the Commounity in Client-Worker Interaction. In Kirsi Juhila & Suvi Raitakari & Christopher Hall (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare. London: Routledge, 106-127.

Raitakari, Suvi (2016) Neuvottelut mielenterveys- ja päihdeasiakkaiden asumisen siirtymistä: toiveita, haasteita ja toimijuutta [Negotiating the Housing Transitions of Clients in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Hopes, Challenges and Agency]. Teoksessa Kirsi Juhila & Teppo Kröger (toim.) Siirtymät ja valinnat asumispoluilla. Jyväskylän yliopisto: SoPhi, 108-133.  

Raitakari Suvi & Haahtela Riikka & Juhila Kirsi (2016) Tackling Community Integration in Mental Health Home Visit Integration in Finland. Health and Social Care in the Community 24(5), e53-62.

Raitakari Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi (2016) Asumispolkujen tutkimisen lähtökohdat ja menetelmät [The Premises and Methods of Studying Housing Pathways]. Teoksessa Kirsi Juhila & Teppo Kröger (toim.) Siirtymät ja valinnat asumispoluilla. J yväskylän yliopisto: SoPhi, 40-59.

Raitakari Suvi & Günther Kirsi (2015) Mielenterveysasiakkaan asema portaikkomallin ja Asunto Ensin -mallin asumispoluilla [Mental Health Clients' Position in the Staircase and Housing First Pathways]. Janus 23(1), 66-82.

Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi (2015) Housing First Literature: Different Orientations and Political-Practical Arguments. European Journal of Homelessness Research 9(1), 145-189.

Raitakari, Suvi & Saario, Sirpa & Juhila, Kirsi & Günther, Kirsi (2015) Client Participation in Mental Health: Shifting Positions in Decision Making. Nordic Social Work Research 5(1), 35-49.

Günther, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi (2015) From Plan Meetings to Care Plans: Genre Chains and the Intertextual Relations of Text and Talk. Discourse & Communication 9(1), 65-79.

Juhila, Kirsi & Christopher Hall & Raitakari, Suvi(2015) Interaction During Mental Health Floating Support Homevisits: Managing Host-Guest and Professional-Client Identities in home-spaces. Social and Cultural Geography. DOI:10.1080/14649365.2015.1042401

Doctoral thesis 

Raitakari Suvi (2006) Neuvottelut ja merkinnät reunaminuuksista. Vuorovaikutuksellisuus ja retorisuus la stensuojeluyksikön palavereissa ja tukisuunnitelmissa. [Negotiating and marking marginal selves. Interactive and rhetorical perspective to clienthood in child care meetings and records]. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1183. Tampere: Tampere University Press

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• Anonymous encounters on illegal paths: An ethnographic study of the dark web and street-based harm reduction services for people using drugs (Kone Foundation, 2021–2025)
• Fighting segregation and homelessness among the most vulnerable through housing social work (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, 2021–2023)
• From Demolished Housing Community to New Homes (City of Tampere, Academy of Finland, 2021–2022)
• COVID-19 in the margins of society - Homelessness-sub-project (European Social Fund, 2021–2023)
• Geographies of Home-based Service Interactions at the Margins of Welfare in Finland and Sweden (Academy of Finland, 2017–2022)
• Responsibilisation of Service Users and Professionals in Mental Health Practices (Academy of Finland, 2011–2016)

Doctoral thesis

Ranta, Johanna (2020) Suhteellinen toimijuus huumeita käyttävien matalan kynnyksen palveluissa: Tutkimus institutionaalisesta vuorovaikutuksesta [Relational agency in low-threshold services for people using drugs: A study of institutional interaction]. Tampere University Dissertations 279. Tampere: Tampere University. [Open access]

 

Peer-reviewed scientific publications

Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Ilmoniemi, Mikko & Mäki, Jenni (2023) Paikastaan siirretyt: Kotipaikan menettäminen ja uuteen kiinnittyminen gentrifikaatioprosessissa [Displaced people: Losing one's home place and attaching to a new one in the process of gentrification]. In Suvi Raitakari, Timo Harrikari, Marja Hekkala & Minna Kivipelto (eds.) Sosiaalityö kriiseissä ja poikkeuksellisissa olosuhteissa [Social work in crises and exceptional circumstances]. Jyväskylä: SoPhi, 61–91. [Open access]

Ranta, Johanna (2023) Koronapandemia, kohtaamispaikka ja vuorovaikutus: Kuvauksia jalkautuvasta päihdetyöstä pandemiaolosuhteissa kaduilla, kodeissa ja pimeässä verkossa [COVID-19, meeting place and interaction: Descriptions of street-, home- and dark web-based harm reduction work in pandemic conditions]. In Marja Hekkala & Suvi Raitakari (eds.) Osallisuutta ja osattomuutta yhteiskunnan marginaaleissa: Muuntuvat palvelut ja hyvinvointi koronapandemiassa. Tampereen yliopisto, 100–125. [Open access]

Ranta, Johanna & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari & Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi (2023) Home as a risk environment: Negotiating the boundaries of homes and social relationships in services for people using illicit drugs. International Journal of Social Welfare 32(2), 230–240. [Open access]

Vanjusov, Heidi & Ranta, Johanna (forthcoming 2023) Päihdepalveluiden kokemuksellinen saavutettavuus [Experiential accessibility of substance abuse services]. In Kimmo Nuotio, Kaarlo Simojoki & Esko Yli-Hemminki (eds.) Parempaa päihdepolitiikkaa: Rangaistuksista hoidon poluille. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Holmberg, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna (2022) Kotona katkolla: Asiakkaan arki osana kotiin vietävää katkaisuhoitoa [Detoxification at home: Client’s everyday life as a part of home-based alcohol detoxification]. In Suvi Raitakari & Kirsi Günther & Jenni-Mari Räsänen (eds.) Koti, hyvinvointityö ja haavoittuvuus [Home, welfare work and vulnerability]. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 285–316. [Open access]

Juhila, Kirsi & Raitakari, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna (2022) Housing First: Combatting Long-term Homelessness in Finland. In Caroline de La Porte, Guðný Björk Eydal, Jaakko Kauko, Daniel Nohrstedt, Paul ‘t Hart & Bent Sofus Tranøy (eds.) Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495–513. [Open access]

Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Holmberg, Suvi (2022) Kotiin paikantuvan tutkimuksen metodologisia lähtökohtia [Methodological premises of home-based research]. In Suvi Raitakari & Kirsi Günther & Jenni-Mari Räsänen (eds.) Koti, hyvinvointityö ja haavoittuvuus [Home, welfare work and vulnerability]. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 85–119. [Open access]

Ranta, Johanna & Kuusisto, Katja (2022) Julkinen keskustelu suomalaisen päihdepalvelujärjestelmän puutteista: Analyysi mielipidekirjoitusten retoriikasta vuosina 2019–2021 [Public debate on the shortcomings of the Finnish substance use services: Analysis of the rhetoric of opinion pieces in 2019–2021]. In Arja Jokinen, Suvi Raitakari & Johanna Ranta (eds.) Sosiaalityö yhteiskunnan marginaaleissa: Konstruktionistisia jäsennyksiä [Social work at the margins of society: Constructionist perspectives]. Tampere: Vastapaino, 301–342. [Open access]

Ranta, Johanna & Perälä, Riikka (2022) Haittojen vähentäminen ja Asunto ensin -malli huumeita käyttävien asumisen tuessa [Harm reduction and Housing First model in floating support for people using drugs]. Teoksessa Suvi Raitakari & Kirsi Günther & Jenni-Mari Räsänen (eds.) Koti, hyvinvointityö ja haavoittuvuus [Home, welfare work and vulnerability]. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 181–215. [Open access]

Holmberg, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna (2021) Koti katkaisuhoidon tilana [Home as a space for detoxification]. Janus 29(1), 54–70. [Open access]

Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Raitakari, Suvi & Banks, Sarah (2021) Relational autonomy and service choices in social worker-client conversations in an outpatient clinic for people using drugs. British Journal of Social Work 15(1), 170–186.  

Lydahl, Doris & Holmberg, Suvi & Günther, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna (2021) Doing data together: Affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits. Qualitative Research 21(4), 515–530. [Open access]

Raitakari, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna & Saario, Sirpa (2021) Alignment and service user participation in low-threshold meetings with people using drugs. In Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall & Juliet Koprowska (eds.) Interprofessional collaboration and service user participation: Analysing meetings in social welfare. Bristol: Policy Press, 115–140.

Ranta, Johanna (2020) Reducing harms through interactions: Workers orienting to unpredictable frames in a low-threshold project for people injecting drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy 82,102828.

Ranta, Johanna & Juhila, Kirsi (2020) Constructing a sense of home in floating support for people using drugs. Qualitative Social Work 19(4), 685–700. Published online 02 May 2019. DOI: 10.1177/1473325019847262

Kuusisto, Katja & Ranta, Johanna (2020) Psykososiaalisen päihdetyön asema Suomessa 1900-luvulta tähän päivään [The position of psychosocial substance use work in Finland from the 20th century to the present]. Teoksessa Johanna Moilanen, Johanna Annola & Mirja Satka (toim.) Sosiaalityön käänteet [Twists of social work]. Jyväskylä: SoPhi 144, 112–140. [Open access]

Günther, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna (2019) Mielenterveys- ja päihdekuntoutujan palvelusiirtymät: Asumisyksikön työntekijöiden neuvottelut asiakkaiden muuttuvista palvelutarpeista [Service transitions of people with mental health and substance use problems: Housing support workers negotiating clients’ changing service needs]. Teoksessa Aini Pehkonen, Taru Kekoni & Katja Kuusisto (toim.) Oikeus päihdehuoltoon [Right for substance use services]. Tampere: Vastapaino, 219–252.

Ranta, Johanna (2019) Huumehoitoa koskevat neuvot ja valinnat matalan kynnyksen palvelun asiakkaiden ja työntekijöiden vuorovaikutuksessa [Advices and choices regarding drug addiction treatment in low-threshold service client-worker interaction]. Teoksessa Aini Pehkonen, Taru Kekoni & Katja Kuusisto (toim.) Oikeus päihdehuoltoon [Right for substance use services]. Tampere: Vastapaino, 253–287.

Ranta, Johanna & Raitakari, Suvi & Juhila, Kirsi (2017) Vastuuneuvottelut huumeidenkäyttäjien asunnottomuuden toiminnallisissa loukuissa [Negotiating responsibilities in the double binds of drug users' homelessness]. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 82(2), 165–175. [Open access]

 

Edited publications and monographs

Mäki, Jenni & Kuoppakangas, Päivikki & Juhila, Kirsi & Ranta, Johanna & Karjalainen, Rosa (2023) ”Et se oli hyvin poikkeuksellinen paikka asua”: Purettavasta asuinyhteisöistä uusiin koteihin [”It was a very extraordinary place to live”: From a demolished housing community to new homes]. Tampere: Tampere University.

Jokinen, Arja & Raitakari, Suvi & Ranta, Johanna (eds.) (2022) Sosiaalityö yhteiskunnan marginaaleissa: Konstruktionistisia jäsennyksiä [Social work at the margins of society: Constructionist perspectives]. Tampere: Vastapaino. [Open access]

Juhila, Kirsi & Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia & Ranta, Johanna (eds.) (2021) Home- and Community-Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches. Social Inclusion 9(3), thematic issue. [Open access]

Ranta, Johanna & Räsänen, Jenni-Mari & Günther, Kirsi (eds.) (2018) Sosiaalityön kodit ja kodit sosiaalityössä [Social Work’s Homes and Homes in Social Work]. Tutkiva sosiaalityö 2018 [Researching Social Work 2018]. Helsinki: Talentia and The Finnish Society of Social Work Research. [Open access]

 

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