Selected peer-reviewed publications

  • Sawyer, Lena and Clarke, Kris (2025). Local memory, city walking, and exploring walking social work pedagogies in Fresno, California and Gothenburg, Sweden. Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 45(1), 105–124.

  • Clarke, Kris & Forbes, Kathryn (2024). Forward: Transformative reproductive justice futures: Decolonial, feminist, and lesbian theorizations on reproductive justice futures. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1-7.

  • Forbes, Kathryn and Clarke, Kris (2023) Policing the Park: Sex Panic and Policymaking in Fresno, California. lambda nordica. 28 (4), 19-45.

  • KC, Smarika, Clarke, Kris & Seppänen, Marjaana. (2023). ‘If I Count Everything That Is Against Me. It Is My Colour. It Is That I Am a Woman’: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Racialised Older Migrant Women in Finland. The British Journal of Social Work, bcad178.

  • KC, Smarika, Clarke, Kris, & Seppänen, Marjaana. (2023). A Scoping Review on Ageing Migrants in Finland through the Lens of Intersectionality and Vulnerability. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 13(3), 1-18.

  • Clarke, Kris (2022) Reimagining Social Work Ancestry: Toward Epistemic Decolonization. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work. 37(2), 266–278.

  • Clarke, Kris (2021) Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice in the United States from the War on Poverty to Social Enterprise to Black Lives Matter. Journal of Social Policy Studies. 19 (1), 143-154.

  • Clarke, Kris; Harris, Debra; Zweifler, John; Lasher, Marc, Mortimer, Roger; Hughes, Susan (2016) The Significance of Harm Reduction as a Social and Health Care Intervention for Injecting Drug Users: An Exploratory Study of a Needle Exchange Program in Fresno, California. Social Work in Public Health. (5): 398-407.

  • Clarke, Kris (2015) The Case of a Needle Exchange Policy Debate in Fresno, California. Critical Social Policy. 36 (2), 1-18.

  • Shapiro, Martin; Anderson, Lisa; and Clarke, Kris (2015) Creating Courses about Global Forces: Global Challenges and General Education. E-Journal of Public Affairs. 4 (1). http://ejournal.missouristate.edu/2015/03/article-creating-courses-aboutglobal-forces-global-challenges-and-general-education/4/

  • Clarke, Kris (2014) “And Then All of the Sudden, You’re Still Here with Bad Finnish”: North American Women’s Narratives of Cultural Adjustment in Finland. Journal of Finnish Studies. 17 (1 &2), 42-66.

  • Lee, Kham Yang and Clarke, Kris (2013) The Significance of Social Memory in 1.5 Generation Hmong-Americans: Implications for Culturally Competent Social Work Practice. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work. 22, (2), 162-177.

  • Clarke, Kris (2011) Migrants and the Emerging HIV Epidemic in Finland in the 1980s-1990s. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 1, (3), 137-145.

  • Clarke, Kris (2011) The Paradoxical Approach to Intimate Partner Violence in Finland. International Perspectives in Victimology, 6, (1), 9-19.

  • Hernandez, Virginia Rondero; Montana, Salvador; and Clarke, Kris (2010) Child Health Inequality: Framing a Social Work Response. Health and Social Work, 25, (4), 291-301.

  • Clarke, Kris (2009) Negotiating Migrant Community Needs through Social Work Research: A Finnish Example. Qualitative Social Work Research, 8, (4), 8-27.

  • Anand, Janet and Clarke, Kris (2009) Crossing Borders through Cyberspace: A Discussion of an Internet Social Work Education Exchange Pilot Project across the Atlantic. Social Work Education, 28, (6), 579-582.

  • Clarke, Kris (2005) Critical, Multicultural Education for Remembering and Reconciliation: A Discussion of an Interdisciplinary Social Science Course for International Students in Finland. Compare. British Association for International and Comparative Education, 35, (4), 479-494.

  • Clarke, Kris (2004) Invisible in Plain Sight – Cultural Diversity in Finnish Multicultural Social Care Education. Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 24, (1), 124-137.

  • Clarke, Kris (2004) “Sisällä ja ulkona: maahanmuuttajien yhteisötutkimus.” [Inside and Out: Immigrants in Community Research] Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 6/2004, 630-641.

  • Clarke, Kris (2002) Policying Silence, Practicing Invisibility: Migrants Living with HIV/AIDS in Finland. Social Work in Europe, 9, (3), 20-27.

    Books and monographs

  • Clarke, K., Lee-Oliver, L., Ranta-Tyrkkö, S. (2024). Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care (1st ed.). Policy Press.

  • Clarke, Kris & Yellow Bird, Michael (2020) Decolonizing Pathways to Integrative Healing in Social Work. London: Routledge.

  • Clarke, Kris (1999) The Bounds of Bifurcation: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Finnish Vocational Social Care Education. Tampere: University of Tampere Press, Research Reports, Series A, No. 7.

    Book chapters

  •  Clarke, Kris and Blell, M. (in press) 'Haunting, Abolition and Finish Child Welfare', in I. Hyslop and B. Pease (eds.) Abolition in Social Work and Human Services: Visions, Possibilities and Challenges, Bristol: Policy Press.

  • Clarke, K., Lee-Oliver, L., Ranta-Tyrkkö, S. (2024) Introduction. In Decolonising Social Work in Finland (pp. 1-31). Policy Press.

  • Dayib, F., & Clarke, K. (2024). Transcultural Mental Health as the Colonisation of Racialised Bodies: A Personal Insight. In Decolonising Social Work in Finland (pp. 161-181). Policy Press.

  • K. C., S., Osei, P., & Clarke, K. (2024). Intersectional Knowledge Practices in Academia from Marginal Positions: Testimonios from Researchers of Colour in Finland. In Decolonising Social Work in Finland (pp. 195-214). Policy Press.

  • Sawyer, L., Clarke, K., & Osei-Kofi, N. (2024). Counter-archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care. In Decolonising Social Work in Finland (pp. 217-236). Policy Press.

  • Clarke, K. (2024). The Japanese-American Photo Project: Exploring Hidden Local Histories in Learning Social Work Macro Practice through Participatory Action Research. In Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. Sage.

  • Clarke, Kris (2023). Challenging Coloniality in Social Work Theorizations on Human Rights. In Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work (pp. 177-185). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

  • Clarke, Kris & Manté Vertelyté (2023) Educational Challenges for Nordic Exceptionalism: Epistemic Injustice in the Absence of Antiracist Education. In Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe. (Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Mia Liinason). Routledge.

  • Clarke, Kris (2019) Kettleman City. In Koenig, TL, Spano, R.,& Thompson, JB. Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  • Clarke, Kris (2007) “Critical Intercultural Pedagogy in Reconciliation Education: A Finnish Example.” Conflict and Reconciliation: Education in the 21st Century. (Edited by Fiona Leach and Máiréad Dunne, University of Sussex). London: Peter Lang Publishers.

  • Clarke, Kris (2006) “Emerging Cultural Diversity in the Nordic Welfare State.” Aspects of Intercultural Dialogue: Theory, Research, Applications. (Edited by Nancy Aalto and Ewald Reuter) Cologne, Germany: Saxa Press.

    Edited reports

  • Clarke, Kris (ed.) (2005) The Problematics of Well-Being: Experiences and Expectations of New Finns in the Finnish Welfare State. Tampere: University of Tampere Press, Research Reports, Series A, No. 9. [Finnish translation by Aijaleena Ahonen available on the internet http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/ tutkimus/hyvprob.htm]

  • Clarke, Kris (ed.) (2003) Welfare Research into Marginal Communities: Insider Perspectives on Health and Social Care. Tampere: University of Tampere Press, Research Reports, Series A, No. 8. [Finnish translation by Aijaleena Ahonen available on the internet: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/tutkimus/margin.htm] Clarke, Kris and Pösö, Tarja (eds.) (2001) African Communities in Northern Europe: Qualitative Studies on Community Understandings of HIV/AIDS. Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

  • Bröring, Georg and Clarke, Kris (eds.) (2000) HIV/AIDS and STD Care and Support for Migrant and Ethnic Minority Communities. Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

    Other scientific articles

  • Clarke, Kris (2006) “HIV/AIDS as a Transnational Health Care Issue: Migrants in the European Union.” Siirtolaisuus-Migration. Institute of Migration, Turku. 1/2006, 11-14.

  • Clarke, Kris (2003) “Finland Country Report 2003.” In Access to Care: Privilege or Right? Migration and HIV Vulnerability in Europe. Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

  • Clarke, Kris (2002) “Kulturell kompetens och demokrati -- en utmaning för socialarbetet.” [Cultural Competence – A Challenge for Social Work] In Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 22, (4), 234-237. Clarke, Kris (1998) "Finnish Country Report" in AIDS and STDs and Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and Other Mobile Groups; The State of Affairs in Europe. (de Putter, Jeanette editor) Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.