In the early 1930s, approximately seven thousand North American Finns, many of whom were born in Canada and the United States, left for Soviet Karelia, an autonomous republic in north-western Russia, bordering on Finland. Through the case study of the Karelian fever (a term by which North American Finnish migration to Soviet Karelia is now known), this work analyzes processes of identity construction at individual, regional, and national levels. My argument is that transnational migrant labour became a means by which diasporic, regional, and national leaders defined and redefined the cultural and political borders of their imagined communities. Whereas the movement of people was physically and psychologically transnational, national and dia...
This thesis examines how Russian migrant women construct their national identities through the mothe...
Despite the fact that nationalism and communism are based on different ideological assumptions the f...
Cezara Olga Crisan Loyola University Chicago ETHNICITY, ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM: A COMPARA...
In the first years of the 1930s, some 6500 Finnish Canadians and Finnish Americans moved to Soviet K...
The article argues that the post-Soviet youth construct their migratory projects as an effort toward...
Modern Diasporas are not just historically dispersed peoples, united by common ethno-cultural roots,...
This study deals with the illegal immigration of Finns to Soviet Karelia in the early 1930s during t...
In this article, we examine how ethnic Finnish migrants construct their ethnic identities before and...
This dissertation examines the racial thinking of Finnish radicals in the early twentieth century Un...
The troubled histories of nations are built from the bones of a million damaged children. But what a...
The formation of the Finnish settlement in Russia began in the 17th century, when a large group of F...
"This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particu...
Transnational theories of migration have come to the fore in social science research as scholars hav...
This paper attempts a comparison across time and space, focusing on the transborder homeland nationa...
This thesis investigates the transnational identities among current-day expatriate Finns around the ...
This thesis examines how Russian migrant women construct their national identities through the mothe...
Despite the fact that nationalism and communism are based on different ideological assumptions the f...
Cezara Olga Crisan Loyola University Chicago ETHNICITY, ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM: A COMPARA...
In the first years of the 1930s, some 6500 Finnish Canadians and Finnish Americans moved to Soviet K...
The article argues that the post-Soviet youth construct their migratory projects as an effort toward...
Modern Diasporas are not just historically dispersed peoples, united by common ethno-cultural roots,...
This study deals with the illegal immigration of Finns to Soviet Karelia in the early 1930s during t...
In this article, we examine how ethnic Finnish migrants construct their ethnic identities before and...
This dissertation examines the racial thinking of Finnish radicals in the early twentieth century Un...
The troubled histories of nations are built from the bones of a million damaged children. But what a...
The formation of the Finnish settlement in Russia began in the 17th century, when a large group of F...
"This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particu...
Transnational theories of migration have come to the fore in social science research as scholars hav...
This paper attempts a comparison across time and space, focusing on the transborder homeland nationa...
This thesis investigates the transnational identities among current-day expatriate Finns around the ...
This thesis examines how Russian migrant women construct their national identities through the mothe...
Despite the fact that nationalism and communism are based on different ideological assumptions the f...
Cezara Olga Crisan Loyola University Chicago ETHNICITY, ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM: A COMPARA...