Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
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Language
English
ISBN
978-952-222-326-5
Cover
Title
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Contents
Foreword
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. Changing Faces of Migration
Why Definitions?
Finns Abroad
European Post-War Migration
Research Review
Previous Studies about Finns in Sweden
Research concerning Second Generations of Immigrant Finns
3. Research Process
Cornerstones of Ethnography
Methods and Considerations
Discourse Analysis
Fieldwork
Fieldwork Periods and Participants
How to Conduct a Good Interview?
About Ethics in Ethnography
About Entering and Leaving the Field(s)
Interviews: Places, Questions and Methods
Transcription of Vernacular and Dialects, Imitations and Accents
Research Steps
Starting the Search Engine
Learning to Use the Tool, Detours on the Way
Locating Landmarks, Finding Paths, and Orientation
Zooming Down, Dwelling in: 2004, 2005, 2006
4. Language and Communities in the Construction of Finnishness
Growing up in a Family Speaking a Minority Language
Going to School
Sport Communities
Extraordinary Feelings
Humour and Joking
Functional and Emotional Values of Language(s)
Finnish in the Family
The Problem of ‘I love you’
Is Language Essential for an Ethnic Identity?
Dual Identities Linked to Languages?
Responsibility to Maintain a Language
‘To Get a Language for Free’
5. Being Different
Sounding Different
Looking Different
Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity
Who is an Immigrant?
Second Generation of Immigrants?
Sweden’s Finns?
Being Different
6. What is Finnishness?
A Place Called Finland
Visits Beyond Family Holidays
Roots
Finnishness as Bravery
Social Awkwardness?
Are We Talking about Finnishness?
7. The End
Kaleidoscopic Identities
Changing Contents
Finnishness as Language
Finnishness as Difference
Feeling and Being
Reliability, Responsibilities and Research Practices
My Contribution
Bibliography
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