Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, PhD Candidate, MA
Role: PhD Candidate, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Finland
Contact: maija.mustaniemi-laakso@abo.fi
Scholarship:
Migration and Asylum Law
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Human Rights
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Vulnerability
Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso works as a researcher at the Åbo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights. Maija’s research interests include questions related to vulnerability, migration and asylum law, accountability, and the human rights-based approach to development. In her work, she has focused on aspects of marginalization and exclusion/inclusion. Recently, she has conducted research on the EU refugee policies within the EU-FP7 FRAME project on the EU’s commitment to human rights (2013–2017). Currently, she works with a newly launched project, “RELAY: Vulnerability as Particularity: Towards Relativizing the Universality of Human Rights?” (Academy of Finland, 2017–2021), which aims to contribute to unpacking the notion of vulnerability in order to analyze its function in the interpretation of law. Mustaniemi-Laakso is particularly interested in the use of the concept of vulnerability as an operative principle in the implementation of policies and laws.