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| Title: | Passages Westward
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| Series: | (Studia Fennica Ethnologica 9) |
| Author: | Maria Lähteenmäki & Hanna Snallman (eds) |
| ISBN: | 9517468946 : 9789517468947 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 247 |
| Weight: | .528 Kg. |
| Published: | Finnish Literature Society - December 2006 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Finland: Social & cultural history: Ethnography: Immigration & emigration |
The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant labourers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigrants and their descendants open up new possibilities for understanding the relationship between Finland and the West. The Finnish passage westward has not always crossed national borders. Karelian evacuees headed west, as did young people from the Finnish countryside when opportunities to make a living in agriculture and forestry diminished in the post-war era. The legacy of these migrants is still visible in the suburbs of Finnish cities today. This book is a joint effort of the Department of Ethnology and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. It was written by Ph. D. students supervised by Academy Research Fellows Maria Lähteenmäki and Hanna Snellman, in collaboration with colleagues abroad interested in current research in ethnology and history.
New Places, New Spaces; Finnish Expatriates in Brussels; Forest Expertise of Europe; Finnish Immigrants in Provence; Perspectives on Australian Multiculturalism; Going to School in a Diaspora; "Hello, My Name is Pirkko and I am.. ."; Symbiosis of Language and Identity?; Helping Us Remember; Urbanised Karelians; The Journey to the Seventh Floor; Five Go to Finland; A Northern Science; Teachers on Guard Against the East; Green Gold in a Suitcase.
