Released on: 2018-12-31
Yoko Bono â Konsten att vara sverigefinsk
Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and 70s. The move was considered temporary and it affected peopleâs ways of making themselves at home in the new country; they did not even try to adapt or learn the language of the country. At that time, the nicknames âFinnjĂ€velâ and âHurriâ were well-known to Swedish-Finnish youngsters: In Sweden, they were regarded as Finns; and the other way around. As neither nationâs citizens approved them as their own, the Sweden Finns had to create their own identity. But what kind of lives do these immigrantsâ children and grandchildren live today? Jonas KarĂ©n was born in a Finnish family in Husbyâs suburb 1980.
