‘I’m a foreign teacher’: legitimate positionings in the stories of a migrant teacher

Figures & data

Table

Pseudonym, gender	Origin	Teaching or teacher education experience at the time of data collection
Ji Yoo, f	East-Asian, recently moved to Finland	PhD student, about 10 years of FL teaching in basic education, teaching English part-time in basic education^1
Maria, f	Finnish	3 years of FL teaching in basic and secondary education, 10 years of teacher education
Johanna, f	Central European, moved to Finland several years ago	6 years of FL and L2 teaching in basic and secondary education, 10 years of teacher education
Irina, f	Eastern European, recently moved to Finland	career in translation before moving to Finland, currently teaching English part-time in basic education
Raili, f	Finnish	1,5 years of teaching in basic education
Lena, f	Finnish	several years of teaching in adult higher education
Lisa, f	Finnish	4th year student in basic education (class teacher^2)
Leo, m	Finnish	5th year student in basic education (class teacher), 1 year of daycare teaching

¹In Finland, “basic education” refers to the nine years of comprehensive education for students aged between 7 and 16

²In Finland, a “class teacher” teaches most subjects of a class of students in grades 1 through