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Spatially Finland is a large country but in terms of population it is very small; it has just over five million inhabitants. It has been calculated that approximately one million Finns have left the country since the beginning of the 1860s.1 The reasons for emigration have been largely economic, but political factors, wars and changes of borders have also led the Finns to migrate to the East or to the West. In this chapter I refer mainly to those Finns who emigrated to the United States or Canada after the 1860s and to Australia and Western Europe after World War II.
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Branch, H. (1996). Migrant Finns’ Attitudes to Language and Nationhood. In: Pynsent, R.B. (eds) The Literature of Nationalism. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24685-4_9
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