The Hidden Minority

Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian Borderland

Helena Jerman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-756-4 (ISBN)

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Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects of migration – a continuing process spanning several generations – The Hidden Minority takes a multi-temporal perspective on mobility and belonging. The focus of this ethnographic study is the Russian minority in Finland, which is socially, economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous.The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with ’being hidden‘ or ’hiding oneself‘. The book explores informants’ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.

Helena Jerman is affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, where she has taught and worked as a university researcher and later as an experienced researcher of the Kone Foundation. She was a member of the board of the Finnish Oral History Network (FOHN) for several years and is a founding member of the Finnish Anthropological Society and the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration.

List of Illustrations

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Chronology

General Maps

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Hidden Minority

Chapter 2. Travelling Memory and the Creation of Belonging

Chapter 3. Human Mobility: Disruption and Continuity

Chapter 4. Across Borders and Generations; ‘Memory Moves’

Chapter 5. Between Inclusion and Exclusion

Conclusion

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	EASA Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-756-7 / 1805397567
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-756-4 / 9781805397564
Zustand	Neuware