Expatriate Finnish Women and Finnish Transnational Social Networks in Copenhagen
Varsa, Kirsi (2009)
Varsa, Kirsi
Siirtolaisuusinstituutti
2009
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202101192139
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202101192139
Kuvaus
Introduction
Project design
The level analysis
I: the Socio-political framework for Finnish transnational social networks in Copenhagen
II: the Expatriate Finnish women in Copenhagen
Life-mode analysis
Interviewing expatriate Finnish women
The ideal types of expatriate Finnish women
III: What is going on at the Finnish social networks in Copenhagen
Transnational social networks from theoretical perspective
Finnish social networks in Copenhagen
As a participant-observer at Finnish Ladies Night Out
Interplay of the Levels
Concluding remarks
Perspectives
Bibliography
Appendix.
Project design
The level analysis
I: the Socio-political framework for Finnish transnational social networks in Copenhagen
II: the Expatriate Finnish women in Copenhagen
Life-mode analysis
Interviewing expatriate Finnish women
The ideal types of expatriate Finnish women
III: What is going on at the Finnish social networks in Copenhagen
Transnational social networks from theoretical perspective
Finnish social networks in Copenhagen
As a participant-observer at Finnish Ladies Night Out
Interplay of the Levels
Concluding remarks
Perspectives
Bibliography
Appendix.
Tiivistelmä
City of Copenhagen hosts thousands of foreign nationalities and more than thousand of them are expatriate Finnish citizens who have relocated to Denmark for personal and/or professional reasons. These Finnish migrants form a transnational Finnish community among other transnational and international communities. In Denmark, public discourse and transnational migration studies tend to focus on immigrant communities. This project approaches Finnish transnational community in Copenhagen, which is built around loose associational and social networks.
Public discourse in Denmark stresses very little the various challenges that EU and Nordic citizens, in particular women, face upon relocating to Denmark. This project aims to examine why some expatriate Finnish women in Copenhagen may have problems at the individual level despite a lack of legal barriers at the political level when entering to Denmark, and what purposes do the Finnish transnational social networks serve in this equation.
Public discourse in Denmark stresses very little the various challenges that EU and Nordic citizens, in particular women, face upon relocating to Denmark. This project aims to examine why some expatriate Finnish women in Copenhagen may have problems at the individual level despite a lack of legal barriers at the political level when entering to Denmark, and what purposes do the Finnish transnational social networks serve in this equation.