Saana Hansen
Saana Hansen is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on economies of care, displacement and migration, anthropology of the state and kinship, and politics of repair and reconciliation. Her ethnographic focus is on Northern Europe (Denmark, Greenland) and Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe). In 2023, Saana earned her PhD with distinction in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Helsinki with a dissertation titled Economies of care and politics of return: Sustaining life among injivas and their families in Bulawayo. Saana holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Tampere and a master’s degree in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the University of Sussex. Before embarking on her academic career, she spent several years working in the NGO and government sectors, focusing on migration management, human rights, and research.
Research
Economies of Care and Politics of Repair
Recent Publications
Economies of care and the politics of return: sustaining life among injivas in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Reaching ‘the vulnerable’ by working from the heart? Community Case Workers in Zimbabwe
Contact
Links:
Social and Cultural Anthropology – University of Helsinki
Personal Profile Saana Hansen – University of Helsinki
Postcolonial Apology and Legacy of Problematic Pasts
Project: Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State