Johanna LeinonenJohanna Leinonen is a research specialist at the Novia University for Applied Sciences, Finland. She completed her PhD in history in 2011 at the University of Minnesota, United States. She holds the title of associate professor (docent) in research o multiculturalism from the University of Turku (2016). Her research interests include migration history, forced migration and family separation, family and marriage migration, and gender and migration. She is the lead editor of Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories (Helsinki University Press, 2025), which won the Nordic History Book Award in 2025. ORCID: https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-1359-8235 Read More Read Less