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Loading... Finns in the United States: A History of Settlement, Dissent, and Integrationby Auvo Kostiainen
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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 pronounced. They differed from many other new immigrant groups in a number of ways, including the fact that theirs is not an Indo-European language, and many old-country cultural and social features reflect their geographic location in Europe, at the juncture of East and West. A fresh and up-to- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.894Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Other Groups European OriginLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |