Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia

Studies on displaced persons often suffer from a lack of data on the long-term effects of forced migration. A register created during 1960s and published as a book series ‘Siirtokarjalaisten tie’ in 1970 documented the lives of individuals who fled the southern Karelian district of Finland after it...

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Main Authors: John Loehr, Robert Lynch, Johanna Mappes, Tuomas Salmi, Jenni Pettay, Virpi Lummaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Population Research Institute of Väestöliitto 2017-12-01
Series:Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212