Finns in the United States

Finns in the United States is now the definitive book on the Finnish experience in America. It surpasses most studies of immigrant adjustment by incorporating the experiences of several generations and the talents of a wide array of scholars.
—John Bodnar, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of History, Indiana University

Finns in the United States pushes scholarship on Finns in the United States well beyond its existing boundaries to encompass studies of culture, transnational politics and religion, deportation, and the complex lives of modern Finnish migrants coming to terms with earlier versions of Finnish-American ethnicity. This book will be required reading for anyone seeking to re-think previous studies or assess newer directions in immigration and ethnic history.
—Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History and Former Director of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

This sweeping and remarkable collection represents a model for the study of an immigrant group. It brilliantly accounts for Finnish America’s internal divisions, its pre-migration past, its continuing transnational ties, its complex relations to neighbors and social hierarchies in the United States, and its potential for helping us re-imagine the broader history of the areas in which immigrants found themselves.
—David Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference