Finns in the United States : a history of settlement, dissent, and integration / edited by Auvo Kostiainen.


East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • pt. 1. Introduction. Updating and rethinking the Finnish American story / Jon Saari — Interest in the history of Finnish Americans / Auvo Kostiainen — pt. 2. Colonial settlement of the Swedes and Finns. The Delaware colonists and their heritage / Auvo Kostiainen — pt. 3. Seamen, masses, and individual migrants of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Migration from Finland to North America / Reino Kero — Finnish settlements in the United States: nesting places and Finntowns / Arnold R. Alanen — Ambiguous identity: Finnish Americans and the race question / Peter Kivisto and Johanna Leinonen — pt. 4. Finnish communities organized. Fighting for temperance ideas / Paul George Hummasti — Religious activities of the Finns: an examination of Finnish religious life in industrialized North America / Gary Kaunonen — Politics of the left and the right / Auvo Kostiainen — Sooner or later, you’re a cooperator : the Finnish American cooperative movement / Hannu Heinilä — pt. 5. The multitude of cultural life. Finnish identity in immigrant culture / Keijo Virtanen — Papers and publications / Auvo Kostiainen — pt. 6. Finland’s minority emigrants. Finland-Swedes in North America / Mika Roinila — pt. 7. Connected to Finland. Distant dreams, different realities: North American immigrants revisit Finland / Erik Hieta — Help among nations: the humanitarian impulse in American-Finnish relations / Erik Hieta — The return migration of Finns from North America / Keijo Virtanen — Deported Finns / Auvo Kostiainen — pt. 8. Acculturation and generations. One culture, two cultures?: families of Finns in the United States in the twentieth century / Johanna Leinonen — The transnational practices of Finnish immigrants / Peter Kivisto — Who is a real Finn ?: negotiating Finnish and Finnish-American identity in the contemporary United States / Johanna Leinonen — pt. 9. Turning to Americans. Adjustment and the future / Mika Roinila.

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