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Annamari Vitikainen

Job description

Professor (Political Philosophy)

  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Don’t bracket the queers! Comment on Patti Lenard’s ‘Resettling (LGBTQ+) refugees’
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen, Patti Tamara Lenard :
    The Role of Trust in LGBTQ+ Refugee Status Determination (RSD) System
    Journal of Social Philosophy 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Esma Baycan-Herzog, Annamari Vitikainen, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen :
    Migration and discrimination: exploring the pathways of a more integrated research agenda
    Ethics & Global Politics 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Diversity studies
    2024 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBTIQ+ prioritization in refugee admissions – The case of Norway
    Etikk i praksis 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Eliisa Vitikainen :
    LGBTQ+
    2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugee-based Reasons in Refugee Resettlement – The Case of LGBTIQ+
    Moral Philosophy and Politics 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Conceptualizing Indigenous Citizenship: The Norwegian core curriculum and citizenship as shared fate
    2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances
    Citizenship Studies 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBT Rights and Refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admissions
    Ethics & Global Politics 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    On Being Good Gay: 'Covering' and the social structure of being LGBT+
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen :
    Introduction: Symposium on Acceptable and Unacceptable Criteria for Prioritizing Among Refugees in a Nonideal World
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Annamari Vitikainen :
    The ethics of refugee prioritization: reframing the debate
    Ethics & Global Politics 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Group rights, collective goods, and the problem of cross-border minority protection
    International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 2019 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Monikulttuurisuus ja yhdenvertaisuus - Ristiriidoista eteenpäin? [transl.: Multiculturalism and equality - Surpassing conflicts?]
    2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Multiculturalism and Political Philosophy
    2017 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Excused by Culture?: Sex, Desire, and Conflicts in the Courtrooms
    2016 DOI / ARKIV
  • Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh, Annamari Vitikainen :
    Introduction to the thematic issue ‘Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility’
    Journal of Global Ethics 2016 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Culturally Motivated Actions and the Desire to Control
    Homo Oeconomicus (HOEC) 2014 ARKIV
  • Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh, Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility
    Routledge 2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: Towards an Individuated Approach to Cultural Diversity
    Palgrave Macmillan 2015 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz: The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugees and LGBTQ rights: A case for giving priority to LGBTQ persons in refugee admissions
    2021 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    On being Good Gay: 'Covering' and the social structure of being LGBT+
    2019 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugee-based reasons in refugee resettlement
    2019 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugee-based reasons in refugee resettlement
    2019 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Indigenous Citizenship, Shared Fate, and Non-ideal Circumstances
    2019 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Conceptualizing Indigenous Citizenship: Equal, differentiated, and shared citizenship
    2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBT Rights and Refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admissions
    2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBT Rights and Refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admissions
    2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    'Oikeudenmukaisuuden ongelma'/'Monikulttuurisuus ja yhdenvertaisuus' ['The Problem of Justice'/'Multiculturalism and equality') - book panel
    2018 ARKIV
  • Stig Brøndbo, Annamari Vitikainen :
    Er det greit å prioritere mellom flyktninger?
    12. June 2018 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBT Rights and Refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admissions
    2018 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    LGBT rights and refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in asylum?
    2017 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Minority rights and the problem of cross-border minority protection
    2017 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Multiculturalism in the Nordic Region
    2017 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Group Rights, Collective Goods, and the Problem of Cross-border Minority Protection
    2017 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Monikulttuurisuus ja yhdenvertaisuus: miten mahdollisista ristiriidoista voi päästä eteenpäin? (Multiculturalism and equality: how to surpass possible conflicts?)
    2016 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen :
    Globalizing Minority Rights: Cosmopolitanism, Global Institutions, and Cultural Justice / Introduction of the GMR project
    2016 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Conceptualizing Indigenous Citizenship: equal, differentiated, or shared citizenship?
    2016 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Minority Rights and Global Justice: assessing the normative differences between societal and global discourses of cultural justice
    2016 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Conceptualizing Indigenous Citizenship: Equal, differentiated, or shared citizenship?
    2016 ARKIV
  • Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh, Annamari Vitikainen :
    Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility
    Journal of Global Ethics 2016 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Minority Rights and Equal Citizenship
    2015 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Minority Rights and Global Justice: Assessing the normative differences between societal and global discourses of cultural justice
    2015 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Liberalismin, liberaalin monikulttuurisuusteorian ja monikulttuurisuuspolitiikan suhteista (On the relations of liberalism, liberal multiculturalism, and multicultural politics)
    2015 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    Minority Rights and Global Justice: Assessing the normative differences in societal and global discourses of cultural justice
    2015 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    "The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism"
    2014 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    "Joint Opportunities and Cultural Disadvantages"
    2014 ARKIV
  • Annamari Vitikainen :
    "Excused by Culture? Wants, desires, and the power to control"
    2014 ARKIV

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    Research interests

    My research interests fall broadly within the field of contemporary political philosophy, especially questions relating to migration, integration, minority and group rights (incl. indigenous rights), and sexuality and gender. I'm the author of The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: Towards an Individuated Approach to Cultural Diversity, Palgrave Macmillan (2015). Other recent publications include Vitikainen, A. (2021) “Indigenous Citizenship, Shared Fate, and Non-ideal Circumstances”, Citizenship Studies 25(1), 1-19., Vitikainen, A. (2023) “Refugee-based reasons in refugee resettlement – the case of LGBTIQ+”, Moral Philosophy and Politics 10(2), 367-385. and Vitikainen, A. and Lenard P.T. (2026) “The role of trust in LGBTQ+ refugee status determination (RSD) system”, Journal of Social Philosophy 57(2), 250–260.

    I am the PI of a Research Council of Norway project on Good Integration (GOODINT): Goals and bottlenecks of good integration and social cohesion (2021-2026).

    In 2016-2021 I co-led a RCN project Globalizing Minority Rights: Cosmopolitanism, Global Institutions, and Cultural Justice

    At present, I'm working on a book project The Ethics of LGBTIQ+ Refugee Admission and Integration (under contract at Oxford University Press).

    Teaching

    I teach both general undergradute courses in philosophy, and specialization courses within political philosophy (BA/MA/Ph.D.), including:

    FIL-3028 Topics in Political Philosophy (in English)

    FIL-3900/3901 Masters Thesis in Philosophy

    FIL-2047/FIL-3020 Migration (in English)

    FIL-1023 Feminist philosophy (in Norwegian)

    FIL-0700 Eksamen Philosophicum (in Norwegian)


    Member of research group / centre

    FemPhil    English content Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice (PDJ)    English content Philosophy for Modern Times    English content

    Member of project

    Good Integration (GOODINT)    English content Good Integration (GOODINT): Goals and bottlenecks of successful integration and social cohesion (2021-2025) Globalizing Minority Rights (2016 - 2021)
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