Hidden Minority - Perceptions of Belonging Otherness in Finnish Russian Borderland

The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with 'being hidden' or 'hiding oneself'. The book explores informants' reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.

About the author

Helena Jerman is affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, where she has taught and worked as a university researcher and later as an experienced researcher of the Kone Foundation. She was a member of the board of the Finnish Oral History Network (FOHN) for several years and is a founding member of the Finnish Anthropological Society and the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Jerman, Jerman Helena
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781805397564
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-756-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: EASA Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Mobility, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology