The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement (PDF)

Samira Saramo is Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland. Saramo is a transdisciplinary historian researching Finnish mobilities through the lenses of life writing, emotions, community, place, and the everyday. She is the author of Building That Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans (2022). Saramo's research has been published in Journal of Social History, Qualitative Research, European Journal of Life Writing, Comparative American Studies, European Journal of American Studies and elsewhere. She is the Chair and Founder of the History of Finnish Migrations Network and Vice Chair of the Finnish Oral History Network.

Ulla Savolainen is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Cultures. She is a folklorist specializing in memory studies, oral history, and narrative research. Her research interests include poetics and politics of remembrance, transnationality, and materiality. She is the leader of the research projects "Transnational Memory Cultures of Ingrian Finns" (2020-2022) and "Toward an ecology of memory. Mediums, modalities, and agents of the construction of Ingrian Finnish pasts" (2022-2025). Savolainen's doctoral dissertation (2015) focused on the life writings of former Karelian child evacuees in Finland. She has also researched oral histories of internments of German and Hungarian citizens in Finland in 1944-1946 and analyzed reception of compensation for past injustice.