Pia Levin joins NPPR staff
We are happy to announce that Pia Levin has joined the NPPR staff as a research assistant, effective 1 November 2010. Pia is assigned to the Finnish case, and she will play a central role in the location and translation of relevant Finnish language source material. Pia earned an M.A. in Nordic History at Åbo Academy University in Finland in 2010. Her M.A. dissertation examined the construction of knowledge by the Medical Society of Finland for the issues of poverty, prostitution and mental illness during the period 1871-1912.
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Congratulations, Pia!
I give you one advice: If you are interested in documents produced by SALLI [http://www.salli.org], it would be good to download all of them (as PDF-files) since it is uncertain whether SALLI.ORG will continue existing online.
Salli’s declarations can be found on
http://www.salli.org/kanta/index2.html
Finnish sex workers’s association SALLI has been dissolved and and the web site Salli.org has been closed. Statements of Salli (in Finnish) are now available on http://www.ladyjohanna.com/salli/kanta/index.html
These shifts in worker organisations such as SANS in Sweden and now SALLI in Finland are themselves worthy of examination in terms of how they have or have not been able to influence policy and how in response workers have been constructed to make them relatively invisible in the policy agendas. However as old alliances fade, new ones continue to appear.