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Causes Of Migration In Finland

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connections between a lot of countries of emigration to the point or region of immigration or through the use of different method of making one of the countries as a point of emigration but migration that would be spread through different areas of immigration. The main function of establishing this kind of system as stated by Kepsu et al. (2009), is performed by “social and ethnic networks, multinational firms, educational institutions or other corporations- as mediators between macrostructures and individuals as well as between the different countries” (P. 19). The focus of the above is its focus on various perspectives of the systems of migration. It fails to deal with the causes of migration systems. It does not consider how young immigrants …show more content…

Some of these elements of reference relative to the description of immigrants include their nationality, country of origin or their mother tongue. The source of the data for the analysis of immigrants in Finland is the Finnish statistical population data. From this source, information concerning the backgrounds and citizenship of immigrants were obtained. The population described as native in this study refers to the Finnish speaking population or those who speak either the Swedish or the Sami languages. In the early 1990s, there were only a small number of foreigners who were residing in Finland. Owing to this, people who speak other languages other than Finnish, Swedish or Sami were perceived as migrants. The statistics of languages of immigrants available at the Finnish Statistical Services are developed on the mother tongues that were declared personally by the individual …show more content…

Changes in global politics such as the cold war, the impact of neoliberal capitalism, the dismantling of the dismantling of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, the collapse of the wall of Berlin, the civil war that broke out in Somalia, Iraq and in many other Middle Eastern countries, negatively impacted on labor force as well as triggering the huge influx of immigrants into the Finnish region. A total of 4.4% of the population of Finland represented the proportion of permanent residence that has backgrounds of immigration born outside of the boundaries of Finland (Dhalmann & Yousfi, 2010).
Data available from the year 2000 and beyond posited a continuous rise in the number of immigrants arriving in Finland. The population of immigrants in Finland around the 1990s was 1.3% of the total population of Finland. This number kept rising from that period to the level of 2.6% in the year 2000. In 2009, the population of immigrants had reached a total of 4.4% of

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