Finns in the United States : A History of Settlement, Dissent, and Integration /

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Late-arriving immigrants during the Great Migration, Finns were, comparatively speaking, a relatively small immigrant group, with about 350,000 immigrants arriving prior to World War II. Nevertheless, because of their geographic concentration in the Upper Midwest in particular, their impact was pron...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kostiainen, Auvo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Finnish Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Americains d'origine finlandaise > Histoire.
Finnish Americans > History.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Colonial Settlement of the Swedes and Finns
  • Seamen, masses, and individual migrants of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries
  • Finnish communities organized
  • The multitude of cultural life
  • Finland's minority emigrants
  • Connected to Finland
  • Acculturation and generations
  • Turning to Americans.

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