Eveliina Manninen is a PhD researcher and project researcher in the field of multicultural and migrant education at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has many years of experience in teaching. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education and in her thesis she addressed the meanings of asylum seekers and diversifying school community constructed and re-constructed by discourses of students with Finnish speaking background. Her research interests lie in integration as a two way process along with agency, belonging and otherness in the school context.