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

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
Subjects:
births
digitization
databases [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3056]
displaced persons
Finland
forced migration
Online Access:https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212

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